Detection of falls at home using floor vibrations and sound

IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 514-518

  Litvak, Dima ^a   Gannot, Israel ^a   Zigel, Yaniv ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fall detection; Pattern recognition; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SENSING; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; ELDERLY PEOPLES; FALL DETECTION; FLOOR VIBRATIONS; INDEPENDENT LIVINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; RAPID DETECTIONS; SERIOUS INJURIES;

FLOORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 62749129832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EEEI.2008.4736581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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