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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 is one of the major health threats and obstacles to independent living for elders, timely and reliable fall detection is crucial for mitigating the effects of falls. In this paper, leveraging the fine-grained Channel State Information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Daqing Zhang , Hao Wang , Yasha Wang , Junyi Ma

Fall detection in specialized homes for the elderly is challenging. Vision-based fall detection solutions have a significant advantage over sensor-based ones as they do not instrument the resident who can suffer from mental diseases. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Alexy Carlier , Paul Peyramaure , Ketty Favre , Muriel Pressigout

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

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

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…

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

Falls are a major cause of injury and mortality among older adults, yet most incidents occur in private indoor environments where monitoring must balance effectiveness with privacy. Existing privacy-preserving fall detection approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengxiao Li , Xie Zhang , Wei Zhu , Yan Jiang , Chenshu Wu

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

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

Acoustic sensing has proved effective as a foundation for numerous applications in health and human behavior analysis. In this work, we focus on the problem of detecting in-person social interactions in naturalistic settings from audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Dawei Liang , Zifan Xu , Yinuo Chen , Rebecca Adaimi , David Harwath , Edison Thomaz

Fall detection is a vital task in health monitoring, as it allows the system to trigger an alert and therefore enabling faster interventions when a person experiences a fall. Although most previous approaches rely on standard RGB video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Hejun Xiao , Kunyu Peng , Xiangsheng Huang , Alina Roitberg1 , Hao Li , Zhaohui Wang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Falls among seniors are a major public health issue. Existing solutions using wearable sensors, ambient sensors, and RGB-based vision systems face challenges in reliability, user compliance, and practicality. Studies indicate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Christopher Silver , Thangarajah Akilan

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

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

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

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

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

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
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