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Real-time fall detection is crucial for enabling timely interventions and mitigating the severe health consequences of falls, particularly in older adults. However, existing methods often rely on simulated data or assumptions such as prior…

This work introduces a fall detection system using the YOLOv5mu model, which achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.995, demonstrating exceptional accuracy in identifying fall events within smart home environments. Enhanced by…

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Personalized fall detection system is shown to provide added and more benefits compare to the current fall detection system. The personalized model can also be applied to anything where one class of data is hard to gather. The results show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pranesh Vallabh , Nazanin Malekian , Reza Malekian , Ting-Mei Li

Nowadays, detecting aberrant health issues is a difficult process. Falling, especially among the elderly, is a severe concern worldwide. Falls can result in deadly consequences, including unconsciousness, internal bleeding, and often times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Pronob Kumar Barman

Elder people consequence a variety of problems while living Activities of Daily Living (ADL) for the reason of age, sense, loneliness and cognitive changes. These cause the risk to ADL which leads to several falls. Getting real life fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Asma Khatun , Sk. Golam Sarowar Hossain

For legged robots to operate in complex terrains, they must be robust to the disturbances and uncertainties they encounter. This paper contributes to enhancing robustness through the design of fall detection/prediction algorithms that will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 M. Eva Mungai , Jessy Grizzle

The increasing shortage of nursing staff and the acute risk of falls in nursing homes pose significant challenges for the healthcare system. This study presents the development of an automated fall detection system integrated into care…

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

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

Falls among seniors are a major public health issue. Existing solutions using wearable sensors, ambient sensors, and RGB-based vision systems face challenges in reliability, user compliance, and practicality. Studies indicate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Christopher Silver , Thangarajah Akilan

Fall detection based on embedded sensor is a practical and popular research direction in recent years. In terms of a specific application: fall detection methods based upon physics sensors such as [gyroscope and accelerator] have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Zeyuan Qu , Tiange Huang , Yuxin Ji , Yongjun Li

Video based fall detection accuracy has been largely improved due to the recent progress on deep convolutional neural networks. However, there still exists some challenges, such as lighting variation, complex background, which degrade the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Ziwei Chen , Yiye Wang , Wankou Yang

Detecting and preventing falls in humans is a critical component of assistive robotic systems. While significant progress has been made in detecting falls, the prediction of falls before they happen, and analysis of the transient state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Younggeol Cho , Gokhan Solak , Olivia Nocentini , Marta Lorenzini , Andrea Fortuna , Arash Ajoudani

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

Falling of elderly people who are staying alone at home leads to health risks. If they are not attended immediately even it may lead to fatal danger to their life. In this paper a novel computer vision-based system for smart monitoring of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 L. Aneesh Euprazia , K. K. Thyagharajan

Military personnel and security agents often face significant physical risks during conflict and engagement situations, particularly in urban operations. Ensuring the rapid and accurate communication of incidents involving injuries is…

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

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

A key aspect of developing fall prevention systems is the early prediction of a fall before it occurs. This paper presents a statistical overview of results obtained by analyzing 22 activities of daily living to recognize physiological…

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