Proposal of an Awakening Behavior Detection System for Medical Use and Adaptation for Fluctuation of the Brightness Quantity with Infrared Camera Device Kinect

Recently, accidents such that seniors fall down from the bed in care facilities or hospitals are increased. To prevent these accidents, we have developed the awakening behavior detection system using Neural Network. However, fluctuation of brightness quantity in the capturing environment sometimes makes decrease the detection capability. Therefore, to decrease the influence of the quantity, we newly introduce an infrared camera device Kinect to the proposed system in order to detect clear shape of the human´s behavior despite of the fluctuation of the brightness. Finally, we show the effectiveness of the infrared camera image from Kinect on the detection capability by the experiments.