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As the percentage of elderly people in developed countries increases worldwide, the healthcare of this collective is a worrying matter, especially if it includes the preservation of their autonomy. In this direction, many studies are being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

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

Timely and reliable detection of falls is a large and rapidly growing field of research due to the medical and financial demand of caring for a constantly growing elderly population. Within the past 2 decades, the availability of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Harry Wixley

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

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

This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the floor by means of a mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the proposed algorithm, inspired by semantic segmentation techniques, the 3D scene is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Morris Antonello , Marco Carraro , Marco Pierobon , Emanuele Menegatti

A fall is an abnormal activity that occurs rarely; however, missing to identify falls can have serious health and safety implications on an individual. Due to the rarity of occurrence of falls, there may be insufficient or no training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Shehroz S. Khan , Jesse Hoey

This study investigates fall risk prediction in older adults using various machine learning models trained on accelerometric, non-accelerometric, and combined data from 146 participants. Models combining both data types achieved superior…

Detecting unintended falls is essential for ambient intelligence and healthcare of elderly people living alone. In recent years, deep convolutional nets are widely used in human action analysis, based on which a number of fall detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yan Zhang , Heiko Neumann

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

Falls among elderly residents in assisted living homes pose significant health risks, often leading to injuries and a decreased quality of life. Current fall detection solutions typically rely on sensor-based systems that require dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Vinayak Mali , Saurabh Jaiswal

Developing a general-purpose wearable real-time fall-detection system is still a challenging task, especially for healthy and strong subjects, such as industrial workers that work in harsh environments. In this work, we present a hybrid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Nicholas Cartocci , Antonios E. Gkikakis , Darwin G. Caldwell , Jesús Ortiz

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 one of the important causes of accidental or unintentional injury death worldwide. Therefore, this paper presents a reliable fall detection algorithm and a mobile cloud collaboration system for fall detection. The algorithm is an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Tong Wu , Yang Gu , Yiqiang Chen , Yunlong Xiao , Jiwei Wang

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

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

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 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

In recent years, as the population ages, falls have increasingly posed a significant threat to the health of the elderly. We propose a real-time fall detection system that integrates the inertial measurement unit (IMU) of a smartphone with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lingyun Wang , Deqi Su , Aohua Zhang , Yujun Zhu , Weiwei Jiang , Xin He , Panlong Yang

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