Identifying medicine bottles by incorporating RFID and video analysis

Author

Hasanuzzaman, Faiz M. ; Tian, YingLi ; Liu, Qingshan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., City Coll. of New York, New York, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

12-15 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

528

Lastpage

529

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new framework of identifying medicine bottles using a combination of a video camera and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors for applications of monitoring the elderly´s activities of daily living (ADLs) at home. RFID tags are attached to medicine bottles and first detected by RFID readers from the antenna. However, the RFID detection can only detect RFID tags within a certain range of the antenna. Once a medicine bottle is moved out of the range of the RFID antenna, a camera will be activated to continue detecting and tracking the medicine bottle for further action analysis based on moving object detection and color model of the medicine bottle. The experimental results demonstrate 100% detection accuracy for identifying medicine bottles.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; drugs; geriatrics; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; object detection; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; video surveillance; RFID detection; antenna; color model; elderly activity; medicine bottles; moving object detection; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification sensors; video analysis; video camera; Antennas; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Image color analysis; Object recognition; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1612-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112424

Filename

6112424