• DocumentCode
    3179595
  • Title

    Human fall detection

  • Author

    Ali, Syed Farooq ; Muaz, Muhammad ; Fatima, Arooj ; Idrees, Fauzia ; Nazar, Noman

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Manage. & Technol., Lahore, Pakistan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    19-20 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    101
  • Lastpage
    105
  • Abstract
    Fall-induced injuries are common in the elderly population. Delay or lack of medical care after the occurrence of a fall often results in injuries, sometimes severe, and can also lead to death in some cases. Falls, therefore, are critical occurrences for the elderly. Detecting falls automatically, as they occur, can lead to better timed medical care which can in turn reduce the subsequent medical complications. In this paper we describe an effective fall detection system based on videos dataset generated using multiple cameras. Approach proposed in this paper outperforms in accuracy as compared to the other existing approach. It uses several images descriptors or features which are fed to a number of classifiers to detect falls.
  • Keywords
    geriatrics; injuries; patient monitoring; death; elderly population; fall induced injuries; human fall detection; medical care delay; Accuracy; Feature extraction; Head; Injuries; Senior citizens; Videos; Human fall detection; background; fixed camera based; foreground;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multi Topic Conference (INMIC), 2013 16th International
  • Conference_Location
    Lahore
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INMIC.2013.6731332
  • Filename
    6731332