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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

Detecting unintended falls is essential for ambient intelligence and healthcare of elderly people living alone. In recent years, deep convolutional nets are widely used in human action analysis, based on which a number of fall detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yan Zhang , Heiko Neumann

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

Staircases are some of the most common building structures in urban environments. Stair detection is an important task for various applications, including the environmental perception of exoskeleton robots, humanoid robots, and rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Chen Wang , Zhongcai Pei , Shuang Qiu , Zhiyong Tang

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

Accurate fall detection for the assistance of older people is crucial to reduce incidents of deaths or injuries due to falls. Meanwhile, a vision-based fall detection system has shown some significant results to detect falls. Still,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Sagar Chhetri , Abeer Alsadoon , Thair Al Dala in , P. W. C. Prasad , Tarik A. Rashid , Angelika Maag

Pedestrian detection is an important but challenging problem in computer vision, especially in human-centric tasks. Over the past decade, significant improvement has been witnessed with the help of handcrafted features and deep features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiale Cao , Yanwei Pang , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

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

As smartphone rooted distractions become commonplace, the lack of compelling safety measures has led to a rise in the number of injuries to distracted walkers. Various solutions address this problem by sensing a pedestrian's walking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Shubham Jain , Marco Gruteser

An object handover between a robot and a human is a coordinated action which is prone to failure for reasons such as miscommunication, incorrect actions and unexpected object properties. Existing works on handover failure detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Santosh Thoduka , Nico Hochgeschwender , Juergen Gall , Paul G. Plöger

In this work, we present an appearance based human activity recognition system. It uses background modeling to segment the foreground object and extracts useful discriminative features for representing activities performed by humans and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Bappaditya Mandal

Appearance features have been widely used in video anomaly detection even though they contain complex entangled factors. We propose a new method to model the normal patterns of human movements in surveillance video for anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Romero Morais , Vuong Le , Truyen Tran , Budhaditya Saha , Moussa Mansour , Svetha Venkatesh

Detecting and preventing falls in humans is a critical component of assistive robotic systems. While significant progress has been made in detecting falls, the prediction of falls before they happen, and analysis of the transient state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Younggeol Cho , Gokhan Solak , Olivia Nocentini , Marta Lorenzini , Andrea Fortuna , Arash Ajoudani

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

In visual surveillance systems, it is necessary to recognize the behavior of people handling objects such as a phone, a cup, or a plastic bag. In this paper, to address this problem, we propose a new framework for recognizing object-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jongyoul Park , Jin Young Choi

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to extract a quaternion from a two dimensional camera frame for estimating a contained human skeletal pose. The problem of pose estimation is usually tackled through the usage of stereo cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Sriram Radhakrishna , Adithya Balasubramanyam

Falls among seniors due to difficulties with tasks such as picking up objects pose significant health and safety risks, impacting quality of life and independence. Reliable, accessible assessment tools are critical for early intervention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 John Clapham , Kenneth Koltermann , Yanfu Zhang , Yuming Sun , Evie N Burnet , Gang Zhou

Action monitoring in a home environment provides important information for health monitoring and may serve as input into a smart home environment. Visual analysis using cameras can recognise actions in a complex scene, such as someones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Lili Tao , Timothy Volonakis , Bo Tan , Yanguo Jing , Kevin Chetty , Melvyn Smith

Because falls are funny, YouTube and other video sharing sites contain a large repository of real-life falls. We propose extracting gait and balance information from these videos to help us better understand some of the factors that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Babak Taati , Pranay Lohia , Avril Mansfield , Ahmed Ashraf

Fall detection holds immense importance in the field of healthcare, where timely detection allows for instant medical assistance. In this context, we propose a 3D ConvNet architecture which consists of 3D Inception modules for fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Ronak Gupta , Prashant Anand , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Sanjay Singh