Introducing the use of depth data for fall detection

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1063-1072

  Planinc, Rainer ^a   Kampel, Martin ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomous system; Depth sensor; Fall detection; Kinect

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; DEPTH SENSORS; EVALUATION RESULTS; FALL DETECTION; KINECT; NON-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HARDWARE;

SENSORS;

EID: 84883465485     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-012-0552-z     Document Type: Article

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