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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

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

Nowadays, detecting aberrant health issues is a difficult process. Falling, especially among the elderly, is a severe concern worldwide. Falls can result in deadly consequences, including unconsciousness, internal bleeding, and often times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Pronob Kumar Barman

This paper presents a collaborative fall detection and response system integrating Wi-Fi sensing with robotic assistance. The proposed system leverages channel state information (CSI) disruptions caused by movements to detect falls in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yunwang Chen , Yaozhong Kang , Ziqi Zhao , Yue Hong , Lingxiao Meng , Max Q. -H. Meng

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

Fall detection (FD) systems are important assistive technologies for healthcare that can detect emergency fall events and alert caregivers. However, it is not easy to obtain large-scale annotated fall events with various specifications of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Kai-Chun Liu , Michael Can , Heng-Cheng Kuo , Chia-Yeh Hsieh , Hsiang-Yun Huang , Chia-Tai Chan , Yu Tsao

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

Falls have become more frequent in recent years, which has been harmful for senior citizens.Therefore detecting falls have become important and several data sets and machine learning model have been introduced related to fall detection. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Xi Wang , Ramya Penta , Bhavya Sehgal , Dale Chen-Song

This paper presents a novel approach to fall prediction for bipedal robots, specifically targeting the detection of potential falls while standing caused by abrupt, incipient, and intermittent faults. Leveraging a 1D convolutional neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 M. Eva Mungai , Gokul Prabhakaran , Jessy W. Grizzle

In this paper, a method to detect environmental hazards related to a fall risk using a mobile vision system is proposed. First-person perspective videos are proposed to provide objective evidence on cause and circumstances of perturbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Mina Nouredanesh , Andrew McCormick , Sunil L. Kukreja , James Tung

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

Inpatient falls are a serious safety issue in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Recent advances in video analytics for patient monitoring provide a non-intrusive avenue to reduce this risk through continuous activity monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziqing Wang , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , Lars Petersson , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal

In recent years, as the population ages, falls have increasingly posed a significant threat to the health of the elderly. We propose a real-time fall detection system that integrates the inertial measurement unit (IMU) of a smartphone with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lingyun Wang , Deqi Su , Aohua Zhang , Yujun Zhu , Weiwei Jiang , Xin He , Panlong Yang

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

Falls represent a significant cause of injury among the elderly population. Extensive research has been devoted to the utilization of wearable IMU sensors in conjunction with machine learning techniques for fall detection. To address the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Jie Tang , Bin He , Junkai Xu , Tian Tan , Zhipeng Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Shuo Jiang

Dementia, a neurological disorder impacting millions globally, presents significant challenges in diagnosis and patient care. With the rise of privacy concerns and security threats in healthcare, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gazi Tanbhir , Md. Farhan Shahriyar

Personalized fall detection models can significantly improve accuracy by adapting to individual motion patterns, yet their effectiveness is often limited by the scarcity of real-world fall data and the dominance of non-fall feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Awatif Yasmin , Tarek Mahmud , Sana Alamgeer , Anne H. H. Ngu

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 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

The increasing pace of population aging calls for better care and support systems. Falling is a frequent and critical problem for elderly people causing serious long-term health issues. Fall detection from video streams is not an attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sania Zahan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian