Concept and design of a video monitoring system for activity recognition and fall detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5597 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 182-189

  Schulze, Bernd ^a   Floeck, Martin ^a   Litz, Lothar ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assisted Living; Assistive Technology; Computer Vision; Elder Care; Fall Detection; Housing for the Elderly; Senior Housing; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED LIVING; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; ELDER CARE; FALL DETECTION; SENIOR HOUSING; TRACKING;

COMPUTER VISION; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MONITORING;

HOUSING;

EID: 70350396971     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02868-7_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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