Fall detection via human posture representation and support vector machine

Accidental falls of elderly people are a major cause of fatal injuries, especially for those living alone. We present a novel vision–based fall detection approach that analyzes an extracted human body using described human postures. First, a human body extracted by a background subtraction technique...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaibo Fan, Ping Wang, Yan Hu, Bingjie Dou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147717707418