Autonomous Fall Detection with Wearable Cameras by Using Relative Entropy Distance Measure

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 31-39

  Ozcan, Koray ^a   Velipasalar, Senem ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ali Silvey distance measures; body worn camera; elderly monitoring; fall detection; gradient local binary pattern (GLBP); histogram of oriented gradients (HOG); relative entropy; wearable camera

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; ENTROPY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; SEMANTICS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ALI-SILVEY DISTANCES; ELDERLY MONITORING; FALL DETECTION; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (HOG); LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; RELATIVE ENTROPY; WEARABLE CAMERAS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84995694005     PISSN: 21682291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2016.2620904     Document Type: Article

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