Wearable Camera- and Accelerometer-Based Fall Detection on Portable Devices

IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 6-9

  Ozcan, Koray ^a   Velipasalar, Senem ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall detection; gradient local binary patterns; histogram of oriented gradients; smartphone; wearable camera

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CAMERAS; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SMARTPHONES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEM; FALL DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS; HISTOGRAMS OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (HOG); LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; WEARABLE CAMERAS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84963851441     PISSN: 19430663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LES.2015.2487241     Document Type: Article

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