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Falls, highly common in the constantly increasing global aging population, can have a variety of negative effects on their health, well-being, and quality of life, including restricting their capabilities to conduct Activities of Daily…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nirmalya Thakur , Chia Y. Han

Inpatient falls are a serious safety issue in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Recent advances in video analytics for patient monitoring provide a non-intrusive avenue to reduce this risk through continuous activity monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziqing Wang , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , Lars Petersson , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal

Falls have become more frequent in recent years, which has been harmful for senior citizens.Therefore detecting falls have become important and several data sets and machine learning model have been introduced related to fall detection. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Xi Wang , Ramya Penta , Bhavya Sehgal , Dale Chen-Song

Unintentional falls can cause severe injuries and even death, especially if no immediate assistance is given. The aim of Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) is to detect an occurring fall. This information can be used to trigger the necessary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mirto Musci , Daniele De Martini , Nicola Blago , Tullio Facchinetti , Marco Piastra

Detecting impact where an individual makes contact with the ground within a fall event is crucial in fall detection systems, particularly for elderly care where prompt intervention can prevent serious injuries. The UP-Fall dataset, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Tresor Y. Koffi , Youssef Mourchid , Mohammed Hindawi , Yohan Dupuis

Falls present a significant global public health challenge, especially in today's aging society, underscoring the importance of developing an effective fall detection system. Non-invasive radio-frequency (RF) based fall detection has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Sijie Ji , Yaxiong Xie , Mo Li

Falls are the public health issue for the elderly all over the world since the fall-induced injuries are associated with a large amount of healthcare cost. Falls can cause serious injuries, even leading to death if the elderly suffers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chien-Pin Liu , Ju-Hsuan Li , En-Ping Chu , Chia-Yeh Hsieh , Kai-Chun Liu , Chia-Tai Chan , Yu Tsao

Fall detection, particularly critical for high-risk demographics like the elderly, is a key public health concern where timely detection can greatly minimize harm. With the advancements in radio frequency technology, radar has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shuting Hu , Siyang Cao , Nima Toosizadeh , Jennifer Barton , Melvin G. Hector , Mindy J. Fain

The increasing pace of population aging calls for better care and support systems. Falling is a frequent and critical problem for elderly people causing serious long-term health issues. Fall detection from video streams is not an attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sania Zahan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

In this paper, a method to detect environmental hazards related to a fall risk using a mobile vision system is proposed. First-person perspective videos are proposed to provide objective evidence on cause and circumstances of perturbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Mina Nouredanesh , Andrew McCormick , Sunil L. Kukreja , James Tung

Fall detection and classification become an imper- ative problem for healthcare applications particularity with the increasingly ageing population. Currently, most of the fall clas- sification algorithms provide binary fall or no-fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Leiyu Xie , Yang Sun , Jonathon A. Chambers , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

In recent years, the occurrence of falls has increased and has had detrimental effects on older adults. Therefore, various machine learning approaches and datasets have been introduced to construct an efficient fall detection algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Thao V. Ha , Hoang Nguyen , Son T. Huynh , Trung T. Nguyen , Binh T. Nguyen

Falls are a major cause of injuries and deaths among older adults worldwide. Accurate fall detection can help reduce potential injuries and additional health complications. Different types of video modalities can be used in a home setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Stefan Denkovski , Shehroz S. Khan , Alex Mihailidis

Older people are susceptible to fall due to instability in posture and deteriorating health. Immediate access to medical support can greatly reduce repercussions. Hence, there is an increasing interest in automated fall detection, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sania Zahan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

Deep learning based fall detection is one of the crucial tasks for intelligent video surveillance systems, which aims to detect unintentional falls of humans and alarm dangerous situations. In this work, we propose a simple and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Sunhee Hwang , Minsong Ki , Seung-Hyun Lee , Sanghoon Park , Byoung-Ki Jeon

Falling, especially in the elderly, is a critical issue to care for and surveil. There have been many studies focusing on fall detection. However, from our survey, there is still no research indicating the prior-fall activities, which we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pisol Ruenin , Sarayut Techakaew , Patsakorn Towatrakool , Jakarin Chawachat

Falls represent one of the most detrimental occurrences for the elderly. Given the continually increasing ageing demographic, there is a pressing demand for advancing fall detection systems. The swift progress in sensor networks and the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Balachandra D S , Maithreyee M S , Saipavan B M , Shashank S , P Devaki , Ms. Ashwini M

Fall detection for the elderly is a well-researched problem with several proposed solutions, including wearable and non-wearable techniques. While the existing techniques have excellent detection rates, their adoption by the target…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Prabhjot Kaur , Qifan Wang , Weisong Shi

Human falls rarely occur; however, detecting falls is very important from the health and safety perspective. Due to the rarity of falls, it is difficult to employ supervised classification techniques to detect them. Moreover, in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jacob Nogas , Shehroz S. Khan , Alex Mihailidis

Rehabilitation is important to improve quality of life for mobility-impaired patients. Smart walkers are a commonly used solution that should embed automatic and objective tools for data-driven human-in-the-loop control and monitoring.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Manuel Palermo , Sara Moccia , Lucia Migliorelli , Emanuele Frontoni , Cristina P. Santos