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Unintentional or accidental falls are one of the significant health issues in senior persons. The population of senior persons is increasing steadily. So, there is a need for an automated fall detection monitoring system. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ekram Alam , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta , Marco Leo

The increasing global aging population has intensified the demand for reliable health monitoring systems, particularly those capable of detecting critical events such as falls among elderly individuals. Traditional fall detection approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Lijie Zhou , Luran Wang

Human fall is one of the very critical health issues, especially for elders and disabled people living alone. The number of elder populations is increasing steadily worldwide. Therefore, human fall detection is becoming an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ekram Alam , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta , Marco Leo

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

Falling is a commonly occurring mishap with elderly people, which may cause serious injuries. Thus, rapid fall detection is very important in order to mitigate the severe effects of fall among the elderly people. Many fall monitoring…

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

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…

Accurate fall detection for the assistance of older people is crucial to reduce incidents of deaths or injuries due to falls. Meanwhile, a vision-based fall detection system has shown some significant results to detect falls. Still,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Sagar Chhetri , Abeer Alsadoon , Thair Al Dala in , P. W. C. Prasad , Tarik A. Rashid , Angelika Maag

Fall detection is a serious healthcare issue that needs to be solved. Falling without quick medical intervention would lower the chances of survival for the elderly, especially if living alone. Hence, the need is there for developing fall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ayman Al-Kababji , Abbes Amira , Faycal Bensaali , Abdulah Jarouf , Lisan Shidqi , Hamza Djelouat

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

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

The prevention of falls is paramount in modern healthcare, particularly for the elderly, as falls can lead to severe injuries or even fatalities. Additionally, the growing incidence of falls among the elderly, coupled with the urgent need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jungpil Shin , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Rei Egawa1 , Koki Hirooka , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Yoichi Tomioka , Yong Seok Hwang

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

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

Falls are serious and costly for elderly people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US reports that millions of older people, 65 and older, fall each year at least once. Serious injuries such as; hip fractures, broken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Markus D. Solbach , John K. Tsotsos

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

Device-free fall detection utilizing WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as a promising, privacy-preserving solution for elderly health monitoring in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. However, existing deep learning approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yingzhe Wang , Cunhua Pan , Ruijing Liu , Shaokai Li , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

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

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

One of the possible dangers that older people face in their daily lives is falling. Occlusion is one of the biggest challenges of vision-based fall detection systems and degrades their detection performance considerably. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sara Khalili , Hoda Mohammadzade , Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi
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