A posture recognition-based fall detection system for monitoring an elderly person in a smart home environment

We propose a novel computer vision-based fall detection system for monitoring an elderly person in a home care application. Background subtraction is applied to extract the foreground human body and the result is improved by using certain postprocessing. Information from ellipse fitting and a projec...

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Main Authors:	Miao Yu, Adel Rhuma, Mohsen Naqvi, Liang Wang, Jonathon Chambers
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified Assistive living Directed acyclic graph support vector machine (DAGSVM) system integration Fall detection Health care Multiclass classification Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/13018
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