A real-time and self-calibrating algorithm based on triaxial accelerometer signals for the detection of human posture and activity

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1098-1105

  Curone, Davide ^a   Bertolotti, Gian Mario ^b   Cristiani, Andrea ^b   Secco, Emanuele Lindo ^a   Magenes, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EUCENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity and posture monitoring; real time movement classification; triaxial accelerometer; wearable device

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN POSTURES; NOVEL TASK; REALTIME PROCESSING; REMOTE SURVEILLANCE; SELF-CALIBRATING; SENSOR ORIENTATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WEARABLE DEVICES;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACCELEROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; POSTURE;

EID: 77954591953     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2010.2050696     Document Type: Article

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