Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1612-6
DOI :
10.1109/BIBMW.2011.6112424
