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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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which can model the human body skeletons as spatial and temporal graphs, have shown remarkable potential in skeleton-based action recognition. However, in the existing GCN-based methods, graph-structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Han Chen , Yifan Jiang , Hanseok Ko

Unintentional falls can cause severe injuries and even death, especially if no immediate assistance is given. The aim of Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) is to detect an occurring fall. This information can be used to trigger the necessary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mirto Musci , Daniele De Martini , Nicola Blago , Tullio Facchinetti , Marco Piastra

Reliable fall detection in elderly care requires monitoring systems that are not only accurate but also capable of producing stable, interpretable explanations of motion dynamics, a requirement that existing post hoc explainability methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohammad Saleh , Azadeh Tabatabaei

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) can effectively capture the features of related nodes and improve the performance of the model. More attention is paid to employing GCN in Skeleton-Based action recognition. But existing methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tingwei Li , Ruiwen Zhang , Qing Li

Falling of elderly people who are staying alone at home leads to health risks. If they are not attended immediately even it may lead to fatal danger to their life. In this paper a novel computer vision-based system for smart monitoring of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 L. Aneesh Euprazia , K. K. Thyagharajan

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

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

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

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, 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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very successful in modeling non-Euclidean data structures, like sequences of body skeletons forming actions modeled as spatio-temporal graphs. Most GCN-based action recognition methods use deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Negar Heidari , Alexandros Iosifidis

Musculoskeletal and neurological disorders are the most common causes of walking problems among older people, and they often lead to diminished quality of life. Analyzing walking motion data manually requires trained professionals and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Manli Zhu , Qianhui Men , Edmond S. L. Ho , Howard Leung , Hubert P. H. Shum

Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common and debilitating gait impairment in Parkinson's disease. Further insight into this phenomenon is hampered by the difficulty to objectively assess FOG. To meet this clinical need, this paper proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Benjamin Filtjens , Pieter Ginis , Alice Nieuwboer , Peter Slaets , Bart Vanrumste

Fall detection and classification become an imper- ative problem for healthcare applications particularity with the increasingly ageing population. Currently, most of the fall clas- sification algorithms provide binary fall or no-fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Leiyu Xie , Yang Sun , Jonathon A. Chambers , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

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…

This paper proposes a novel age estimation algorithm, the Temporally-Aware Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network (TAA-GCN). Using a new representation based on graphs, the TAA-GCN utilizes skeletal, posture, clothing, and facial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Matthew Korban , Peter Young , Scott T. Acton

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

Skeleton-based action recognition is a hotspot in image processing. A key challenge of this task lies in its dependence on large, manually labeled datasets whose acquisition is costly and time-consuming. This paper devises a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hichem Sahbi