Monocular 3D head tracking to detect falls of elderly people

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 6384-6387

  Rougier, Caroline ^a   Meunier, Jean ^a   St Arnaud, Alain ^b   Rousseau, Jacqueline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

HEAD TRACKING; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE;

COMPUTER VISION;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; HEAD; HOME ACCIDENT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34047156168     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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