Improving the performance of fall detection systems through walk recognition

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 843-855

  Cola, Guglielmo ^a   Vecchio, Alessio ^a   Avvenuti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Pervasive healthcare; Walk recognition; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; POPULATION STATISTICS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY CITIZENS; FALL RECOGNITION; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; WALK RECOGNITION;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84926648628     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-014-0235-x     Document Type: Article

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