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Falls are significant and often fatal for vulnerable populations such as the elderly. Previous works have addressed the detection of falls by relying on data capture by a single sensor, images or accelerometers. In this work, we rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Xueyi Wang

By 2050, people aged 65 and over are projected to make up 16 percent of the global population. As aging is closely associated with increased fall risk, particularly in wet and confined environments such as bathrooms where over 80 percent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Yumeng Miao , Yuliang Zhang , Yu Zhang , Atif Mansoor

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

Automatic fall detection is a vital technology for ensuring the health and safety of people. Home-based camera systems for fall detection often put people's privacy at risk. Thermal cameras can partially or fully obfuscate facial features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Vineet Mehta , Abhinav Dhall , Sujata Pal , Shehroz S. Khan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

As the global population ages, the number of fall-related incidents is on the rise. Effective fall detection systems, specifically in healthcare sector, are crucial to mitigate the risks associated with such events. This study evaluates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Aleksander Nagaj , Zenjie Li , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Kamal Nasrollahi

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

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

In this paper, we present a dataset capturing diverse visual data formats that target varying luminance conditions. While RGB cameras provide nourishing and intuitive information, changes in lighting conditions potentially result in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Alex Junho Lee , Younggun Cho , Young-sik Shin , Ayoung Kim , Hyun Myung

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

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

The ageing society brings attention to daily elderly care through sensing technologies. The future smart home is expected to enable in-home daily monitoring, such as fall detection, for seniors in a non-invasive, non-cooperative, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Xuyao Yu , Jiazhao Wang , Wenchao Jiang