A method for fast fall detection

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3619-3623

  Huang, Bin ^a   Tian, Guohui ^a   Li, Xiaolei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Fall recognition; Image processing

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DETECTION SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC HEALTH; FALL DETECTION; FALL RECOGNITION; NEW APPROACHES; PERSONAL INFORMATION; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 52149119866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCICA.2008.4593501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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