Since falls are a major public health problem among older people, the number of systems
aimed at detecting them has increased dramatically over recent years. This work presents …

Vision-based fall detection systems have experienced fast development over the last years.
To determine the course of its evolution and help new researchers, the main audience of this …

Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being
increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are …

Falls are a serious public health problem and possibly life threatening for people in fall risk
groups. We develop an automated fall detection system with wearable motion sensor units …

Falls are critical events among elderly people that requires timely rescue. In this paper, we
propose a fall detection system consisting of an inertial unit that includes triaxial …

Despite extensive preventive efforts, falls continue to be a major source of morbidity and
mortality among elderly. Real-time detection of falls and their urgent communication to a …

Falls are a major cause of injuries and hospital admissions among elderly people. Thus, the
caregiving process and the quality of life of older adults can be improved by adopting …

A fall is an abnormal activity that occurs rarely; however, missing to identify falls can have
serious health and safety implications on an individual. Due to the rarity of occurrence of …

Falls and fall-related injuries are major incidents, especially for elderly people, which often
mark the onset of major deterioration of health. More than one-third of home-dwelling people …

Background: Falls represent a significant threat to the health and independence of adults
aged 65 years and older. As a wide variety and large number of passive monitoring systems …