A simple vision-based fall detection technique for indoor video surveillance

JL Chua, YC Chang, WK Lim - Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2015 - Springer
Falls are one of the major health hazards among the aging population aged 65 and above,
which could potentially result in a significant hindrance to their independent living. With the …

Introducing the use of depth data for fall detection

R Planinc, M Kampel - Personal and ubiquitous computing, 2013 - Springer
Current emergency systems for elderly contain at least one sensor (button or
accelerometer), which has to be worn or pressed in case of emergency. If elderly fall and …

Vision-based fallen person detection for the elderly

MD Solbach, JK Tsotsos - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Fall detection for elderly person care using convolutional neural networks

X Li, T Pang, W Liu, T Wang - 2017 10th international congress …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falls are one of the major leading causes of mortality for elderly people living alone at home,
which can lead to severe injuries. Fall detection is the most important health care issue for …

The implementation of an intelligent and video-based fall detection system using a neural network

L Alhimale, H Zedan, A Al-Bayatti - Applied Soft Computing, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a smart fall detector to minimise accidental falls
which occur among elderly people, especially for indoor situations. A video-based detection …

Embedded system for fall detection using body-worn accelerometer and depth sensor

M Kepski, B Kwolek - 2015 IEEE 8th International conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an embedded system for fall detection using accelerometric data and
depth maps. A real-time processing of motion data and depth maps is realized on a low-cost …

A simply fall-detection algorithm using accelerometers on a smartphone

E Thammasat, J Chaicharn - The 5th 2012 Biomedical …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Every year, several thousands of elderly people experience with falling accident. Falling is
then a main problem about healthiness of elders. This paper tries to find out a simple …

Fallen person detection for mobile robots using 3D depth data

M Volkhardt, F Schneemann… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falling down and not managing to get up again is one of the main concerns of elderly
people living alone in their home. Robotic assistance for the elderly promises to have a …

Flexible process-based applications in hybrid clouds

C Fehling, F Leymann, D Schumm… - 2011 IEEE 4th …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud applications target large costumer groups to leverage economies of scale. To
increase the number of customers, a flexible application design is of major importance. It …

A novel robust approach for handling illumination changes in video segmentation

KK Delibasis, T Goudas, I Maglogiannis - Engineering Applications of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work we propose a novel algorithm for foreground segmentation in video sequences
that achieves better accuracy, while maintaining low complexity and allows real time …