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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

mmWave radars have recently gathered significant attention as a means to track human movement within indoor environments. Widely adopted Kalman filter tracking methods experience performance degradation when the underlying movement is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

Radar systems are mainly used for tracking aircraft, missiles, satellites, and watercraft. In many cases, information regarding the objects detected by the radar system is sent to, and used by, a peripheral consuming system, such as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shai Cohen , Efrat Levy , Avi Shaked , Tair Cohen , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

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

Radars are widely used to obtain echo information for effective prediction, such as precipitation nowcasting. In this paper, recent relevant scientific investigation and practical efforts using Deep Learning (DL) models for weather radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Qi Liu , Zhiyun Yang , Ru Ji , Yonghong Zhang , Muhammad Bilal , Xiaodong Liu , S Vimal , Xiaolong Xu

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Peng Zheng , Shou-tao Xu , Xindong Wu

This paper addresses a critical preliminary step in radar signal processing: detecting the presence of a radar signal and robustly estimating its bandwidth. Existing methods which are largely statistical feature-based approaches face…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Akila Pemasiri , Zi Huang , Fraser Williams , Ethan Goan , Simon Denman , Terrence Martin , Clinton Fookes

Human falls rarely occur; however, detecting falls is very important from the health and safety perspective. Due to the rarity of falls, it is difficult to employ supervised classification techniques to detect them. Moreover, in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jacob Nogas , Shehroz S. Khan , Alex Mihailidis

Military personnel and security agents often face significant physical risks during conflict and engagement situations, particularly in urban operations. Ensuring the rapid and accurate communication of incidents involving injuries is…

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

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

Subsurface evaluation of railway tracks is crucial for safe operation, as it allows for the early detection and remediation of potential structural weaknesses or defects that could lead to accidents or derailments. Ground Penetrating Radar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Farhad Kooban , Aleksandra Radlińska , Reza Mousapour , Maryam Saraei

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been the subject of intense research for the classification of radio frequency (RF) signals, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery or micro-Doppler signatures. However, a fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-21 Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Baris Erol , Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz , Moeness G. Amin

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

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

Object detection is one of the most important and challenging branches of computer vision, which has been widely applied in peoples life, such as monitoring security, autonomous driving and so on, with the purpose of locating instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Licheng Jiao , Fan Zhang , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Lingling Li , Zhixi Feng , Rong Qu

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

Autonomous driving highly depends on capable sensors to perceive the environment and to deliver reliable information to the vehicles' control systems. To increase its robustness, a diversified set of sensors is used, including radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Alexander Fuchs , Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

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

Cases of diabetes and related diabetic retinopathy (DR) have been increasing at an alarming rate in modern times. Early detection of DR is an important problem since it may cause permanent blindness in the late stages. In the last two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Burcu Oltu , Büşra Kübra Karaca , Hamit Erdem , Atilla Özgür