Title :
Human fall detection
Author :
Ali, Syed Farooq ; Muaz, Muhammad ; Fatima, Arooj ; Idrees, Fauzia ; Nazar, Noman
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Manage. & Technol., Lahore, Pakistan
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;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Topic Conference (INMIC), 2013 16th International
Conference_Location :
Lahore
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2013.6731332