According to nihseniorhealth. gov (a website for older adults), falling represents a great
threat as people get older, and providing mechanisms to detect and prevent falls is critical to …

Background Single camera markerless motion capture has the potential to facilitate at home
movement assessment due to the ease of setup, portability, and affordable cost of the …

A method for detecting falls in the homes of older adults using the Microsoft Kinect and a two-
stage fall detection system is presented. The first stage of the detection system characterizes …

More than a third of elderly fall each year in the United States. It has been shown that the
longer the lie on the floor, the poorer is the outcome of the medical intervention. To reduce …

Fall detection for elderly and patient has been an active research topic due to that the
healthcare industry has a big demand for products and technology of fall detection. This …

A system identifies a human being from the movement of the human being. The system
includes a dual element pyroeleetric detector, a Fresnel lens array, and a processor. The …

Given the high prevalence and detrimental effects of unintentional falls in the elderly, fall
detection has become a pertinent public concern. A Fall Detection System (FDS) gathers …

More than one third of about 38 million adults 65 and older fall each year in the United
States. To address the above problem we propose to develop an acoustic fall detection …

In this paper, we propose a cascade-AdaBoost-support vector machine (SVM) classifier to
complete the triaxial accelerometer-based fall detection method. The method uses the …

Pyroelectric infrared detectors (PIRDs) have a number of advantages over other IR sensors,
including room-temperature operation, wide wavelength sensitivity, and low cost, leading to …