In recent years, the meaning of successful living has moved from extending lifetime to
improving the quality of aging, mainly in terms of high cognitive and physical functioning …

Vision-based monitoring for assisted living is gaining increasing attention, especially in multi-
modal monitoring systems owing to the several advantages of vision-based sensors. In this …

Effective assisted living environments must be able to perform inferences on how their
occupants interact with one another as well as with surrounding objects. To accomplish this …

Effective assisted living environments must be able to infer how their occupants interact in a
variety of scenarios. Gaze direction provides strong indications of how a person engages …

Over the last few years, the use of new technologies for the support of elderly people and in
particular dementia patients received increasing interest. We investigated the use of a video …

Combining multimodal concept streams from heterogeneous sensors is a problem
superficially explored for activity recognition. Most studies explore simple sensors in nearly …

Currently, the assessment of autonomy and functional ability involves clinical rating scales.
However, scales are often limited in their ability to provide objective and sensitive …

Background: At present, the assessment of autonomy in daily living activities, one of the key
symptoms in Alzheimer's disease (AD), involves clinical rating scales. Methods: In total, 109 …

We present a vision-inertial system which combines two RGB-Depth devices together with a
wearable inertial movement unit in order to detect activities of the daily living. From multi …

The process of aging affects an individual's potential in several dimensions, encompassing
the physical, cognitive, psychological, economic, and social domains. The assessment of …