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
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