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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…

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Falls present a significant global public health challenge, especially in today's aging society, underscoring the importance of developing an effective fall detection system. Non-invasive radio-frequency (RF) based fall detection has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Sijie Ji , Yaxiong Xie , Mo Li

Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence among older adults. Vision-based fall prediction systems offer a non-invasive solution to anticipate falls seconds before impact, but their development is hindered by the scarcity…

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The aging population has led to a growing number of falls in our society, affecting global public health worldwide. This paper presents CareFall, an automatic Fall Detection System (FDS) based on wearable devices and Artificial Intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Garcia , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Carlos Moro

Fall detection for the elderly is a well-researched problem with several proposed solutions, including wearable and non-wearable techniques. While the existing techniques have excellent detection rates, their adoption by the target…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Prabhjot Kaur , Qifan Wang , Weisong Shi

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

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

Real-time fall detection is crucial for enabling timely interventions and mitigating the severe health consequences of falls, particularly in older adults. However, existing methods often rely on simulated data or assumptions such as prior…

By 2050, people aged 65 and over are projected to make up 16 percent of the global population. As aging is closely associated with increased fall risk, particularly in wet and confined environments such as bathrooms where over 80 percent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Yumeng Miao , Yuliang Zhang , Yu Zhang , Atif Mansoor

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…

Human fall is one of the very critical health issues, especially for elders and disabled people living alone. The number of elder populations is increasing steadily worldwide. Therefore, human fall detection is becoming an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ekram Alam , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta , Marco Leo

With an increasing number of elders living alone, care-giving from a distance becomes a compelling need, particularly for safety. Real-time monitoring and action recognition are essential to raise an alert timely when abnormal behaviors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Han Sun , Yu Chen

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

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

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…

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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

In smart cities, detecting pedestrian falls is a major challenge to ensure the safety and quality of life of citizens. In this study, we propose a novel fall detection system using FLAMe (Federated Learning with Attention Mechanism), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Byeonghun Kim , Byeongjoon Noh

Fall detection is a serious healthcare issue that needs to be solved. Falling without quick medical intervention would lower the chances of survival for the elderly, especially if living alone. Hence, the need is there for developing fall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ayman Al-Kababji , Abbes Amira , Faycal Bensaali , Abdulah Jarouf , Lisan Shidqi , Hamza Djelouat

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

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…

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