Home-based health monitoring of the elderly through gait recognition

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 415-428

  Pogorelc, Bogdan ^a,b   Gams, Matjaž ^a,b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Špica International Doo ^*  (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ambient assisted living; data mining; dynamic time warping; gait recognition; Health monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; ELDERLY CARE; ELDERLY PEOPLE; GAIT RECOGNITION; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; MACHINE-LEARNING; MOTION CAPTURE; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; POSITION COORDINATES; RAW SENSOR; SEMANTIC ATTRIBUTE;

ALGORITHMS; GAIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; SEMANTICS; SENSORS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84867531503     PISSN: 18761364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2012-0166     Document Type: Article

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