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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

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

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

Falling can have fatal consequences for elderly people especially if the fallen person is unable to call for help due to loss of consciousness or any injury. Automatic fall detection systems can assist through prompt fall alarms and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Umar Asif , Stefan Von Cavallar , Jianbin Tang , Stefan Harrer

Falls are a common cause of fatal injuries and hospitalization. However, having fall detection on person, in particular for senior citizens can prove to be critical. Presently,there are handheld, ambient detector and vision-based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Fatima Ahmed , Parag Biswas , Abdur Rashid , Md. Khaliluzzaman

The provision of social care applications is crucial for elderly people to improve their quality of life and enables operators to provide early interventions. Accurate predictions of user dropouts in healthy ageing applications are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Christos Chrysanthos Nikolaidis , Vasileios Perifanis , Nikolaos Pavlidis , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

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

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

Fall risk prediction among hospitalized patients is a critical aspect of patient safety in clinical settings, and accurate models can help prevent adverse events. The Hester Davis Score (HDS) is commonly used to assess fall risk, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hojjat Salehinejad , Ricky Rojas , Kingsley Iheasirim , Mohammed Yousufuddin , Bijan Borah

In smart cities, detecting pedestrian falls is a major challenge to ensure the safety and quality of life of citizens. In this study, we propose a novel fall detection system using FLAMe (Federated Learning with Attention Mechanism), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Byeonghun Kim , Byeongjoon Noh

Agentic AI, with goal-directed, proactive, and autonomous decision-making capabilities, offers a compelling opportunity to address movement-related risks in human activity, including the persistent hazard of falls among elderly populations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Farbod Zorriassatine , Ahmad Lotfi

Falls represent a significant cause of injury among the elderly population. Extensive research has been devoted to the utilization of wearable IMU sensors in conjunction with machine learning techniques for fall detection. To address the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Jie Tang , Bin He , Junkai Xu , Tian Tan , Zhipeng Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Shuo Jiang

In the last two decades, fall detection (FD) systems have been developed as a popular assistive technology. Such systems automatically detect critical fall events and immediately alert medical professionals or caregivers. To support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Kai-Chun Liu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Chia-Yeh Hsieh , Hsiang-Yun Huang , Chia-Tai Chan , Yu Tsao

Ensuring the safety and well-being of elderly and vulnerable populations in assisted living environments is a critical concern. Computer vision presents an innovative and powerful approach to predicting health risks through video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yixuan Wang , Paul Stynes , Pramod Pathak , Cristina Muntean

Rollating walkers are popular mobility aids used by older adults to improve balance control. There is a need to automatically recognize the activities performed by walker users to better understand activity patterns, mobility issues and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Farheen Omar , Mathieu Sinn , Jakub Truszkowski , Pascal Poupart , James Tung , Allen Caine

This paper presents a novel approach to fall prediction for bipedal robots, specifically targeting the detection of potential falls while standing caused by abrupt, incipient, and intermittent faults. Leveraging a 1D convolutional neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 M. Eva Mungai , Gokul Prabhakaran , Jessy W. Grizzle

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

Human walking is a complex activity with a high level of cooperation and interaction between different systems in the body. Accurate detection of the phases of the gait in real-time is crucial to control lower-limb assistive devices like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Farhad Nazari , Navid Mohajer , Darius Nahavandi , Abbas Khosravi

Human activity detection has seen a tremendous growth in the last decade playing a major role in the field of pervasive computing. This emerging popularity can be attributed to its myriad of real-life applications primarily dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jitenkumar Babubhai Rana , Rashmi Shetty , Tanya Jha

Healthcare is an important aspect of human life. Use of technologies in healthcare has increased manifolds after the pandemic. Internet of Things based systems and devices proposed in literature can help elders, children and adults…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Rajbinder Kaur , Rohini Sharma