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This study explored an indoor system for tracking multiple humans and detecting falls, employing three Millimeter-Wave radars from Texas Instruments. Compared to wearables and camera methods, Millimeter-Wave radar is not plagued by mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Zichao Shen , Jose Nunez-Yanez , Naim Dahnoun

Life expectancy keeps growing and, among elderly people, accidental falls occur frequently. A system able to promptly detect falls would help in reducing the injuries that a fall could cause. Such a system should meet the needs of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano , Francesco Tisato

Personalized fall detection system is shown to provide added and more benefits compare to the current fall detection system. The personalized model can also be applied to anything where one class of data is hard to gather. The results show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pranesh Vallabh , Nazanin Malekian , Reza Malekian , Ting-Mei Li

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

This paper discusses a vision based health monitoring system which would be very easy in use and deployment. Elder and sick people who are not able to talk or walk they are dependent on other human beings for their daily needs and need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Ankit Chaudhary , Jagdish L. Raheja

Complex activity recognition plays an important role in elderly care assistance. However, the reasoning ability of edge devices is constrained by the classic machine learning model capacity. In this paper, we present a non-invasive ambient…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan Sun , Jorge Ortiz

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

This paper presents the design of a wireless sensor network for detecting and alerting the freezing of gait (FoG) symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease. Three sensor nodes, each integrating a 3-axis accelerometer, can be placed on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Ourong Lin , Tian Yu , Yuhan Hou , Yi Zhu , Xilin Liu

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

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

Existing deep learning approaches for wearable fall detection systems rely on self-attention mechanisms that impose quadratic computational overhead, distributing weights across all time steps. This global weight distribution impairs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sana Alamgeer , Ronish Kumar , Awatif Yasmin , Muhammad Irshad , Anne H. H. Ngu

This paper propose a novel dictionary learning approach to detect event action using skeletal information extracted from RGBD video. The event action is represented as several latent atoms and composed of latent spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hao Xing , Yuxuan Xue , Mingchuan Zhou , Darius Burschka

Background/Objectives: Falls represent a major health concern for stroke survivors, necessitating effective risk assessment tools. This study proposes the Instrumented Fall Risk Assessment (IFRA) scale, a novel screening tool derived from…

Despite the growing potential of older adult care technologies, the adoption of these technologies remains challenging. In this work, we conducted a focus-group session with family caregivers to scope designs of the older adult care…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Min Hun Lee , Daniel P. Siewiorek , Alexandre Bernardino

This article describes the implementation of a technological solution aimed at improving the recording of physiological signals in the elderly population residing in geriatric facilities. The developed system consists of a smart device…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sara Gonzalez , Martin Vasquez , Wilder Castellanos

The population of elderly people has been increasing at a rapid rate over the last few decades and their population is expected to further increase in the upcoming future. Their increasing population is associated with their increasing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nirmalya Thakur , Chia Y. Han

Skeleton detection is a technique that can beapplied to a variety of situations. It is especially critical identifying and tracking the movements of the elderly, especially in real-time fall detection. While conventional image processing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Masaharu Kodama , Runhe Huang

This study introduces an AI-driven platform for continuous and passive patient monitoring in hospital settings, developed by LookDeep Health. Leveraging advanced computer vision, the platform provides real-time insights into patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Paolo Gabriel , Peter Rehani , Tyler Troy , Tiffany Wyatt , Michael Choma , Narinder Singh

Freezing-of-Gait (FoG) affects over 50% of mid-to-late stage Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, significantly impairing patients' mobility independence and reducing quality of life. FoG is characterized by sudden episodes where walking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chuntian Chi , John Clapham , Leslie Cloud , Ingrid Pretzer-Aboff , GinaMari Blackwell , Huajie Shao , Gang Zhou

As the population ages rapidly, long-term care (LTC) facilities across North America face growing pressure to monitor residents safely while keeping staff workload manageable. Falls are among the most critical events to monitor due to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Huy Trinh , Phuong Thai , Elliot Creager , George Shaker