Turning homes into low-cost ambient assisted living environments

International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Dingli, Alexiei ^a   Attard, Daniel ^a   Mamo, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Ambient assistant living (AAL); Depth image; Kinect Skeletal Data; Motion; Motion recognition system

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ASSISTANT LIVING (AAL); DEPTH IMAGE; KINECT SKELETAL DATA; MOTION; MOTION RECOGNITION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84870278661     PISSN: 19416237     EISSN: 19416245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jaci.2012040101     Document Type: Article

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