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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

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

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

Falls present a significant global public health challenge, especially in today's aging society, underscoring the importance of developing an effective fall detection system. Non-invasive radio-frequency (RF) based fall detection has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Sijie Ji , Yaxiong Xie , Mo 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

A fall is an abnormal activity that occurs rarely; however, missing to identify falls can have serious health and safety implications on an individual. Due to the rarity of occurrence of falls, there may be insufficient or no training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Shehroz S. Khan , Jesse Hoey

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

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

Effective methods of preventing falls significantly improve the quality of life of the Elderly. Nowadays, people focus mainly on the proper provision of the apartment with handrails and fall detection systems once they have occurred. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Dawid Gruszczyński , Maciej Stefańczyk

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

The aging population has led to a growing number of falls in our society, affecting global public health worldwide. This paper presents CareFall, an automatic Fall Detection System (FDS) based on wearable devices and Artificial Intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Garcia , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Carlos Moro

Fall prevalence is high among elderly people, which is challenging due to the severe consequences of falling. This is why rapid assistance is a critical task. Ambient assisted living (AAL) uses recent technologies such as 5G networks and…

This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the floor by means of a mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the proposed algorithm, inspired by semantic segmentation techniques, the 3D scene is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Morris Antonello , Marco Carraro , Marco Pierobon , Emanuele Menegatti

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

Human action recognition is an important application domain in computer vision. Its primary aim is to accurately describe human actions and their interactions from a previously unseen data sequence acquired by sensors. The ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Hieu H. Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

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

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 pose estimation (HPE) has attracted a significant amount of attention from the computer vision community in the past decades. Moreover, HPE has been applied to various domains, such as human-computer interaction, sports analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gongjin Lan , Yu Wu , Fei Hu , Qi Hao

Vision-based prediction algorithms have a wide range of applications including autonomous driving, surveillance, human-robot interaction, weather prediction. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the field in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Amir Rasouli

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