Grammar-based, posture- and context-cognitive detection for falls with different activity levels

Proceedings - Wireless Health 2011, WH'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Li, Qiang ^a   Stankovic, John A ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Fall detection; Personal monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; BODY ORIENTATION; CONTEXT INFORMATION; FALL DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE; HIGH ACTIVITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SPECIFICITY; ON-BODY; PERSONAL MONITORING; SITTING DOWN;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84862968959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077546.2077553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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