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Journal Articles IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Year : 2011

Fall detection with multiple cameras: An occlusion-resistant method based on 3D silhouette vertical distribution

Abstract

According to the demographic evolution in industrialized countries, more and more elderly people will experience falls at home and will require emergency services. The main problem comes from fall-prone elderly living alone at home. To resolve this lack of safety, we propose a new method to detect falls at home, based on a multiple-cameras network for reconstructing the 3-D shape of people. Fall events are detected by analyzing the volume distribution along the vertical axis, and an alarm is triggered when the major part of this distribution is abnormally near the floor during a predefined period of time, which implies that a person has fallen on the floor. This method was validated with videos of a healthy subject who performed 24 realistic scenarios showing 22 fall events and 24 cofounding events (11 crouching position, 9 sitting position, and 4 lying on a sofa position) under several camera configurations, and achieved 99.7% sensitivity and specificity or better with four cameras or more. A real-time implementation using a graphic processing unit (GPU) reached 10 frames per second (fps) with 8 cameras, and 16 fps with 3 cameras.
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hal-00640199 , version 1 (10-11-2011)

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Edouard Auvinet, Franck Multon, Alain Saint-Arnaud, Jacqueline Rousseau, Jean Meunier. Fall detection with multiple cameras: An occlusion-resistant method based on 3D silhouette vertical distribution. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2011, 15 (2), pp.290-300. ⟨10.1109/TITB.2010.2087385⟩. ⟨hal-00640199⟩
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