Improving acoustic fall recognition by adaptive signal windowing

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7589-7592

  Li, Yun ^a   Popescu, Mihail ^a   Ho, K C ^a   Nabelek, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE SIGNALS; ELDERLY FALLS; FALL DETECTION; FALL RECOGNITION; FALSE ALARMS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MAIN TASKS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SIGNAL LOCATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FALLING; HUMAN; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84861709522     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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