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Unintentional or accidental falls are one of the significant health issues in senior persons. The population of senior persons is increasing steadily. So, there is a need for an automated fall detection monitoring system. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ekram Alam , Abu Sufian , Paramartha Dutta , Marco Leo

This work explores Doppler information from a millimetre-Wave (mm-W) Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) scanning radar to make odometry estimation more robust and accurate. Firstly, doppler information is added to the scan masking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fraser Rennie , David Williams , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

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

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

Powered wheelchair users encounter barriers to their mobility everyday. Entering a building with non barrier-free areas can massively impact the user mobility related activities. There are a few commercial devices and some experimental that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Sherif Abdulatif , Bernhard Kleiner , Fady Aziz , Christopher Riehs , Rory Cooper , Urs Schneider

The FMCW radars are widely used for automotive radar systems. The basic idea for FMCW radars is to generate a linear frequency ramp as transmit signal. The difference frequency, (i.e., beat frequency) between the transmitted and received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Emre Kurtoglu , Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman

Falls in wet bathroom environments are a major safety risk for seniors living alone. Recent work has shown that mmWave-only, vibration-only, and existing multimodal schemes, such as vibration-triggered radar activation, early feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Sheldon Fung , Atif Mansoor

Falls are serious and costly for elderly people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US reports that millions of older people, 65 and older, fall each year at least once. Serious injuries such as; hip fractures, broken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Markus D. Solbach , John K. Tsotsos

In this paper we propose mmFall - a novel fall detection system, which comprises of (i) the emerging millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar sensor to collect the human body's point cloud along with the body centroid, and (ii) a variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Feng Jin , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

This paper considers human activity classification for an indoor radar system. Human motions generate nonstationary radar returns which represent Doppler and micro-Doppler signals. The time-frequency (TF) analysis of micro-Doppler signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Patrick A. Schooley , Syed A. Hamza

Micro-Doppler signatures are a proven modality for discriminating between drones and birds, but their reliability degrades in low-SNR, data-constrained settings where deep learning models often fail. This paper presents a systematic study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Shaiq e Mustafa , Salman Liaquat , Imran Hafeez Abbasi , Azhar Hasan

The ageing society brings attention to daily elderly care through sensing technologies. The future smart home is expected to enable in-home daily monitoring, such as fall detection, for seniors in a non-invasive, non-cooperative, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Xuyao Yu , Jiazhao Wang , Wenchao Jiang

This study proposes a method for simulating signals received by frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar during respiratory monitoring, using human body geometry and displacement data acquired via a depth camera. Unlike previous studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Kimitaka Sumi , Takuya Sakamoto

Radar-based human activity recognition has gained attention as a privacy-preserving alternative to vision and wearable sensors, especially in sensitive environments like long-term care facilities. Micro-Doppler spectrograms derived from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Davis Liu , Munia Humaira , Peter Lee , Zhou Wang

Vision-based fall analysis has advanced rapidly, but a key bottleneck remains: visually similarmotions can correspond to very different physical outcomes because small differences in contactmechanics and protective responses are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xianqi Zhang

Digital twins of sensory cortex serve as powerful response oracles. Although prediction accuracy is the central metric by which these models are evaluated, it provides limited insight into the latent representations that support those…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Adriano Lima , Yuchen Hou , Michael Beyeler , Marius Schneider

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

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

Current foundation models (FMs) rely on token representations that directly fragment continuous real-world multimodal data into discrete tokens. They limit FMs to learning real-world knowledge and relationships purely through statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yiqing Shen , Hao Ding , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Tianmin Shu , Mathias Unberath

Radar for deep learning-based human identification has become a research area of increasing interest. It has been shown that micro-Doppler ($\mu$-D) can reflect the walking behavior through capturing the periodic limbs' micro-motions. One…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Pascal Weller , Fady Aziz , Sherif Abdulatif , Urs Schneider , Marco F. Huber