A smart vision-based human fall detection system for telehealth applications

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Telehealth

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 7-12

  Miaou, Shaou Gang ^a   Shih, Fu Chiau ^a   Huang, Chia Yuan ^b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Human fall detection; Omni directional camera; Personal information; RFID

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ALARM SYSTEMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

APPLICATIONS.; CLASSIFICATION FEATURES; DETECTION SENSITIVITIES; FALL DETECTIONS; HUMAN FALL DETECTION; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL CAMERA; ONE CAMERAS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PERSONAL INFORMATIONS; POPULATION GROUPS; PROBABILITY OF FALSE ALARMS; RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; RFID; SINGLE SHOTTED; TELEHEALTH; VIEWING ANGLES; VISION-BASED; WALKING PATHS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 54949129756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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