A monocular view-invariant fall detection system for the elderly in assisted home environments

Proceedings - 2011 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 40-46

  Htike, Zaw Zaw ^a   Egerton, Simon ^a   Chow, Kuang Ye ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

fall detection; FHMM; Monocular; view invariant

Indexed keywords

CAMERA POSITIONS; DATA SETS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FALL DETECTION; FHMM; FUZZY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN POSE; MONOCULAR; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES; SINGLE CAMERAS; SMART HOMES; VIDEO FRAME; VIEW-INVARIANT; VISION BASED; VISION-BASED SOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; HEALTH CARE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SENSORS; TIME SERIES;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 81255190711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IE.2011.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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