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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…

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

The aging population is growing rapidly, and so is the danger of falls in older adults. A major cause of injury is falling, and detection in time can greatly save medical expenses and recovery time. However, to provide timely intervention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Seyed Alireza Rahimi Azghadi , Truong-Thanh-Hung Nguyen , Helene Fournier , Monica Wachowicz , Rene Richard , Francis Palma , Hung Cao

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…

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

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

The elderly population is increasing rapidly around the world. There are no enough caretakers for them. Use of AI-based in-home medical care systems is gaining momentum due to this. Human fall detection is one of the most important tasks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Ekram Alam , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta , Marco Leo

In recent years a growing interest on action recognition is observed, including detection of fall accident for the elderly. However, despite many efforts undertaken, the existing technology is not widely used by elderly, mainly because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Michal Kepski

For the elderly population, falls pose a serious and increasing risk of serious injury and loss of independence. In order to overcome this difficulty, we present ElderFallGuard: A Computer Vision Based IoT Solution for Elderly Fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tasrifur Riahi , Md. Azizul Hakim Bappy , Md. Mehedi Islam

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

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

In recent years, the occurrence of falls has increased and has had detrimental effects on older adults. Therefore, various machine learning approaches and datasets have been introduced to construct an efficient fall detection algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Thao V. Ha , Hoang Nguyen , Son T. Huynh , Trung T. Nguyen , Binh T. Nguyen

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

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

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 among older adults are a significant public health concern, leading to severe injuries, loss of independence, and increased healthcare costs. This study evaluates the effectiveness of various models, including a Geometric approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sergio D. Sierra M. , Monica Sinha , Marcela Múnera , Carlos A. Cifuentes

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

Falls during daily ambulation activities are a leading cause of injury in older adults due to delayed physiological responses to disturbances of balance. Lower-limb exoskeletons have the potential to mitigate fall incidents by detecting and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Maria T. Tagliaferri , Leonardo Campeggi , Owen N. Beck , Inseung Kang

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

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…

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