Falling-incident detection and throughput enhancement in a multi-camera video-surveillance system

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 954-963

  Shieh, Wann Yun ^a   Huang, Ju Chin ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Falling detection; Hardware acceleration; Image processing; Pattern recognition; Video surveillance

Indexed keywords

DSP-BASED; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; HUMAN POWER; MULTI-CAMERA VIDEO; MULTI-CAMERAS; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SHORT MESSAGE; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FALLING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84864556807     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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