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Reliable fall detection in elderly care requires monitoring systems that are not only accurate but also capable of producing stable, interpretable explanations of motion dynamics, a requirement that existing post hoc explainability methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohammad Saleh , Azadeh Tabatabaei

The proportion of elderly people is increasing worldwide, particularly those living alone in Japan. As elderly people get older, their risks of physical disabilities and health issues increase. To automatically discover these issues at a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Kai Tanaka , Mineichi Kudo , Keigo Kimura , Atsuyoshi Nakamura

Falls are a major cause of injury and mortality among older adults, yet most incidents occur in private indoor environments where monitoring must balance effectiveness with privacy. Existing privacy-preserving fall detection approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengxiao Li , Xie Zhang , Wei Zhu , Yan Jiang , Chenshu Wu

Effective methods of preventing falls significantly improve the quality of life of the Elderly. Nowadays, people focus mainly on the proper provision of the apartment with handrails and fall detection systems once they have occurred. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Dawid Gruszczyński , Maciej Stefańczyk

Fall event detection, as one of the greatest risks to the elderly, has been a hot research issue in the solitary scene in recent years. Nevertheless, there are few researches on the fall event detection in complex background. Different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yong Chen , Lu Wang , Jiajia Hu , Mingbin Ye

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

By 2050, people aged 65 and over are projected to make up 16 percent of the global population. As aging is closely associated with increased fall risk, particularly in wet and confined environments such as bathrooms where over 80 percent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Yumeng Miao , Yuliang Zhang , Yu Zhang , Atif Mansoor

Fall prevention is one of the most important components in senior care. We present a technique to augment an assistive walking device with the ability to prevent falls. Given an existing walking device, our method develops a fall predictor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Visak C V Kumar , Sehoon Ha , Gergory Sawicki , C. Karen Liu

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition facilitates unobtrusive monitoring of human movements. However, determining the most effective sensor placement for optimal classification performance remains challenging. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Orhan Konak , Alexander Wischmann , Robin van de Water , Bert Arnrich

The aging population has led to a growing number of falls in our society, affecting global public health worldwide. This paper presents CareFall, an automatic Fall Detection System (FDS) based on wearable devices and Artificial Intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Garcia , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Carlos Moro

Fall detection is critical to support the growing elderly population, projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050. However, existing methods often face data scarcity challenges or compromise privacy. We propose a novel IoT-based Fall Detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Abdallah Lakhdari , Jiajie Li , Amani Abusafia , Athman Bouguettaya

This paper proposes a real-time embedded fall detection system using a DVS(Dynamic Vision Sensor) that has never been used for traditional fall detection, a dataset for fall detection using that, and a DVS-TN(DVS-Temporal Network). The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Hyunwoo Lee , Jooyoung Kim , Dojun Yang , Joon-Ho Kim

Life expectancy keeps growing and, among elderly people, accidental falls occur frequently. A system able to promptly detect falls would help in reducing the injuries that a fall could cause. Such a system should meet the needs of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano , Francesco Tisato

This paper presents a novel approach for predicting the falls of people in advance from monocular video. First, all persons in the observed frames are detected and tracked with the coordinates of their body keypoints being extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Minjie Hua , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Current human pose estimation systems focus on retrieving an accurate 3D global estimate of a single person. Therefore, this paper presents one of the first 3D multi-person human pose estimation systems that is able to work in real-time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Pawel Knap , Peter Hardy , Alberto Tamajo , Hwasup Lim , Hansung Kim

Falls are one of the leading cause of injury-related deaths among the elderly worldwide. Effective detection of falls can reduce the risk of complications and injuries. Fall detection can be performed using wearable devices or ambient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Stefan Denkovski , Shehroz S. Khan , Brandon Malamis , Sae Young Moon , Bing Ye , Alex Mihailidis

Existing pre-impact fall detection systems have high accuracy, however they are either intrusive to the subject or require heavy computational resources for fall detection, resulting in prohibitive deployment costs. These factors limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Praveen Jesudhas , Raghuveera T , Shiney Jeyaraj

Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence among older adults. Vision-based fall prediction systems offer a non-invasive solution to anticipate falls seconds before impact, but their development is hindered by the scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Md Fokhrul Islam , Sajeda Al-Hammouri , Christopher J. Arellano , Kavan Hazeli , Heman Shakeri

Falling continues to be a significant risk factor for older adults and other mobility limited individuals. Monitoring and maintaining clear, tripping hazard free pathways in living spaces is invaluable in helping people live independently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Aaron S. Crandall

Computer vision technology, which involves analyzing images and videos captured by cameras through deep learning algorithms, has significantly advanced the field of human fall detection. This study focuses on the application of the YoloV8…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Pinar Yozgatli , Yavuz Acar , Mehmet Tulumen , Selman Minga , Salih Selamet , Beytullah Nalbant , Mustafa Talha Toru , Berna Koca , Tevfik Keles , Mehmet Selcok