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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

Object detectors in real-world applications often fail to detect objects due to varying factors such as weather conditions and noisy input. Therefore, a process that mitigates false detections is crucial for both safety and accuracy. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Moussa Kassem Sbeyti , Michelle Karg , Christian Wirth , Nadja Klein , Sahin Albayrak

Fall detection in specialized homes for the elderly is challenging. Vision-based fall detection solutions have a significant advantage over sensor-based ones as they do not instrument the resident who can suffer from mental diseases. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Alexy Carlier , Paul Peyramaure , Ketty Favre , Muriel Pressigout

Falls are one of the leading cause of injury-related deaths among the elderly worldwide. Effective detection of falls can reduce the risk of complications and injuries. Fall detection can be performed using wearable devices or ambient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Stefan Denkovski , Shehroz S. Khan , Brandon Malamis , Sae Young Moon , Bing Ye , Alex Mihailidis

Falls among elderly residents in assisted living homes pose significant health risks, often leading to injuries and a decreased quality of life. Current fall detection solutions typically rely on sensor-based systems that require dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Vinayak Mali , Saurabh Jaiswal

Falling, especially in the elderly, is a critical issue to care for and surveil. There have been many studies focusing on fall detection. However, from our survey, there is still no research indicating the prior-fall activities, which we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pisol Ruenin , Sarayut Techakaew , Patsakorn Towatrakool , Jakarin Chawachat

For the elderly population, falls pose a serious and increasing risk of serious injury and loss of independence. In order to overcome this difficulty, we present ElderFallGuard: A Computer Vision Based IoT Solution for Elderly Fall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tasrifur Riahi , Md. Azizul Hakim Bappy , Md. Mehedi Islam

This work explores the performance of a large video understanding foundation model on the downstream task of human fall detection on untrimmed video and leverages a pretrained vision transformer for multi-class action detection, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Till Grutschus , Ola Karrar , Emir Esenov , Ekta Vats

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

One of the possible dangers that older people face in their daily lives is falling. Occlusion is one of the biggest challenges of vision-based fall detection systems and degrades their detection performance considerably. To tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sara Khalili , Hoda Mohammadzade , Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi

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

Motion-based fall detection systems are concerned with detecting falls from vulnerable users, which is typically performed by classifying measurements from a body-worn inertial measurement unit (IMU) using machine learning. Such systems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Pradip Mainali , Carlton Shepherd

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

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

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

Falls are a major cause of injuries and deaths among older adults worldwide. Accurate fall detection can help reduce potential injuries and additional health complications. Different types of video modalities can be used in a home setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Stefan Denkovski , Shehroz S. Khan , Alex Mihailidis

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

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

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

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