Challenges, issues and trends in fall detection systems

R Igual, C Medrano, I Plaza - Biomedical engineering online, 2013 - Springer
Since falls are a major public health problem among older people, the number of systems
aimed at detecting them has increased dramatically over recent years. This work presents …

Automatic fall monitoring: A review

N Pannurat, S Thiemjarus, E Nantajeewarawat - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Falls and fall-related injuries are major incidents, especially for elderly people, which often
mark the onset of major deterioration of health. More than one-third of home-dwelling people …

Home camera-based fall detection system for the elderly

K De Miguel, A Brunete, M Hernando, E Gambao - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Falls are the leading cause of injury and death in elderly individuals. Unfortunately, fall
detectors are typically based on wearable devices, and the elderly often forget to wear them …

Vision‐based fall detection with convolutional neural networks

A Núñez-Marcos, G Azkune… - … and mobile computing, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
One of the biggest challenges in modern societies is the improvement of healthy aging and
the support to older persons in their daily activities. In particular, given its social and …

A survey on fall detection: Principles and approaches

M Mubashir, L Shao, L Seed - Neurocomputing, 2013 - Elsevier
Fall detection is a major challenge in the public health care domain, especially for the
elderly, and reliable surveillance is a necessity to mitigate the effects of falls. The technology …

Fall detection system using Kinect's infrared sensor

G Mastorakis, D Makris - Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2014 - Springer
This paper presents a novel fall detection system based on the Kinect sensor. The system
runs in real-time and is capable of detecting walking falls accurately and robustly without …

Depth-based human fall detection via shape features and improved extreme learning machine

X Ma, H Wang, B Xue, M Zhou, B Ji… - IEEE journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falls are one of the major causes leading to injury of elderly people. Using wearable
devices for fall detection has a high cost and may cause inconvenience to the daily lives of …

ARFDNet: An efficient activity recognition & fall detection system using latent feature pooling

SK Yadav, A Luthra, K Tiwari, HM Pandey… - Knowledge-based …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficient activity recognition and fall detection system (ARFDNet).
Here, the raw RGB videos are passed to a pose estimation network to extract skeleton …

Spatio-temporal fall event detection in complex scenes using attention guided LSTM

Q Feng, C Gao, L Wang, Y Zhao, T Song, Q Li - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Fall events are one of the greatest risks for public safety, especially in some complex scenes
with large number of people. Nevertheless, there are few researches on fall detection in …

Combining motion and appearance cues for anomaly detection

Y Zhang, H Lu, L Zhang, X Ruan - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a novel anomaly detection framework which integrates motion and
appearance cues to detect abnormal objects and behaviors in video. For motion anomaly …