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Citation

Debard G, Baldewijns G, Goedemé T, Tuytelaars T, Vanrumste B. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2015; 2015: 6947-6950.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers))

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319990

PMID

26737890

Abstract

More than thirty percent of persons over 65 years fall at least once a year and are often not able to get up again. The lack of timely aid after such a fall incident can lead to severe complications. This timely aid can however be assured by a camera-based fall detection system triggering an alarm when a fall occurs. Most algorithms described in literature use the biggest object detected using background subtraction to extract the fall features. In this paper we compare the performance of our state-of-the-art fall detection algorithm when using only background subtraction, when using a particle filter to track the person and a hybrid method in which the particle filter is only used to enhance the background subtraction and not for the feature extraction. We tested this using our simulation data set containing reenactments of real-life falls. This comparison shows that this hybrid method significantly increases the sensitivity and robustness of the fall detection algorithm resulting in a sensitivity of 76.1% and a PPV of 41.2%.


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