scholarly journals NT-FDS—A Noise Tolerant Fall Detection System Using Deep Learning on Wearable Devices

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Marvi Waheed ◽  
Hammad Afzal ◽  
Khawir Mehmood

Given the high prevalence and detrimental effects of unintentional falls in the elderly, fall detection has become a pertinent public concern. A Fall Detection System (FDS) gathers information from sensors to distinguish falls from routine activities in order to provide immediate medical assistance. Hence, the integrity of collected data becomes imperative. Presence of missing values in data, caused by unreliable data delivery, lossy sensors, local interference and synchronization disturbances and so forth, greatly hamper the credibility and usefulness of data making it unfit for reliable fall detection. This paper presents a noise tolerant FDS performing in presence of missing values in data. The work focuses on Deep Learning (DL) particularly Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with an underlying Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) stack to implement FDS based on wearable sensors. The proposed technique is evaluated on two publicly available datasets—SisFall and UP-Fall Detection. Our system produces an accuracy of 97.21% and 97.41%, sensitivity of 96.97% and 99.77% and specificity of 93.18% and 91.45% on SisFall and UP-Fall Detection respectively, thus outperforming the existing state of the art on these benchmark datasets. The resultant outcomes suggest that the ability of BiLSTM to retain long term dependencies from past and future make it an appropriate model choice to handle missing values for wearable fall detection systems.

Author(s):  
Nishanth P

Falls have become one of the reasons for death. It is common among the elderly. According to World Health Organization (WHO), 3 out of 10 living alone elderly people of age 65 and more tend to fall. This rate may get higher in the upcoming years. In recent years, the safety of elderly residents alone has received increased attention in a number of countries. The fall detection system based on the wearable sensors has made its debut in response to the early indicator of detecting the fall and the usage of the IoT technology, but it has some drawbacks, including high infiltration, low accuracy, poor reliability. This work describes a fall detection that does not reliant on wearable sensors and is related on machine learning and image analysing in Python. The camera's high-frequency pictures are sent to the network, which uses the Convolutional Neural Network technique to identify the main points of the human. The Support Vector Machine technique uses the data output from the feature extraction to classify the fall. Relatives will be notified via mobile message. Rather than modelling individual activities, we use both motion and context information to recognize activities in a scene. This is based on the notion that actions that are spatially and temporally connected rarely occur alone and might serve as background for one another. We propose a hierarchical representation of action segments and activities using a two-layer random field model. The model allows for the simultaneous integration of motion and a variety of context features at multiple levels, as well as the automatic learning of statistics that represent the patterns of the features.


Author(s):  
He Xu ◽  
Leixian Shen ◽  
Qingyun Zhang ◽  
Guoxu Cao

Accidental fall detection for the elderly who live alone can minimize the risk of death and injuries. In this article, we present a new fall detection method based on "deep learning and image, where a human body recognition model-DeeperCut is used. First, a camera is used to get the detection source data, and then the video is split into images which can be input into DeeperCut model. The human key point data in the output map and the label of the pictures are used as training data to input into the fall detection neural network. The output model then judges the fall of the subsequent pictures. In addition, the fall detection system is designed and implemented with using Raspberry Pi hardware in a local network environment. The presented method obtains a 100% fall detection rate in the experimental environment. The false positive rate on the test set is around 1.95% which is very low and can be ignored because this will be checked by using SMS, WeChat and other SNS tools to confirm falls. Experimental results show that the proposed fall behavior recognition is effective and feasible to be deployed in home environment.


Author(s):  
Euclides Lourenco Chuma ◽  
Leonardo Lorenzo Bravo Roger ◽  
Gabriel Gomes de Oliveira ◽  
Yuzo Iano ◽  
Diego Pajuelo

2020 ◽  
pp. 1394-1409
Author(s):  
He Xu ◽  
Leixian Shen ◽  
Qingyun Zhang ◽  
Guoxu Cao

Accidental fall detection for the elderly who live alone can minimize the risk of death and injuries. In this article, we present a new fall detection method based on "deep learning and image, where a human body recognition model-DeeperCut is used. First, a camera is used to get the detection source data, and then the video is split into images which can be input into DeeperCut model. The human key point data in the output map and the label of the pictures are used as training data to input into the fall detection neural network. The output model then judges the fall of the subsequent pictures. In addition, the fall detection system is designed and implemented with using Raspberry Pi hardware in a local network environment. The presented method obtains a 100% fall detection rate in the experimental environment. The false positive rate on the test set is around 1.95% which is very low and can be ignored because this will be checked by using SMS, WeChat and other SNS tools to confirm falls. Experimental results show that the proposed fall behavior recognition is effective and feasible to be deployed in home environment.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Sakorn Mekruksavanich ◽  
Anuchit Jitpattanakul

Currently, a significant amount of interest is focused on research in the field of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) as a result of the wide variety of its practical uses in real-world applications, such as biometric user identification, health monitoring of the elderly, and surveillance by authorities. The widespread use of wearable sensor devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) has led the topic of HAR to become a significant subject in areas of mobile and ubiquitous computing. In recent years, the most widely-used inference and problem-solving approach in the HAR system has been deep learning. Nevertheless, major challenges exist with regard to the application of HAR for problems in biometric user identification in which various human behaviors can be regarded as types of biometric qualities and used for identifying people. In this research study, a novel framework for multi-class wearable user identification, with a basis in the recognition of human behavior through the use of deep learning models, is presented. In order to obtain advanced information regarding users during the performance of various activities, sensory data from tri-axial gyroscopes and tri-axial accelerometers of the wearable devices are applied. Additionally, a set of experiments were shown to validate this work, and the proposed framework’s effectiveness was demonstrated. The results for the two basic models, namely, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep learning, showed that the highest accuracy for all users was 91.77% and 92.43%, respectively. With regard to the biometric user identification, these are both acceptable levels.


Author(s):  
Sagar Chhetri ◽  
Abeer Alsadoon ◽  
Thair Al‐Dala'in ◽  
P. W. C. Prasad ◽  
Tarik A. Rashid ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
Dedi Zhang ◽  
Zhong Su ◽  
Tianrun Wang

The aging population has become a growing worldwide problem. Every year, deaths and injuries caused by elderly people's falls bring huge social costs. To reduce the rate of injury and death caused by falls among the elderly and the following social cost, the elderly must be monitored. In this context, falls detecting has become a hotspot for many research institutions and enterprises at home and abroad. This paper proposes an algorithm framework to prealarm the fall based on fractional domain, using inertial data sensor as motion data collection devices, preprocessing the data by axis synthesis and mean filtering, and using fractional-order Fourier transform to convert the collected data from time domain to fractional domain. Based on the above, a multilayer dichotomy classifier is designed, and each node parameter selection method is given, which constructed a preimpact fall detection system with excellent performance. The experiment result demonstrates that the algorithm proposed in this paper can guarantee better warning effect and classification accuracy with fewer features.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5446
Author(s):  
Hyojung Ahn ◽  
Inchoon Yeo

As the workforce shrinks, the demand for automatic, labor-saving, anomaly detection technology that can perform maintenance on advanced equipment such as vehicles has been increasing. In a vehicular environment, noise in the cabin, which directly affects users, is considered an important factor in lowering the emotional satisfaction of the driver and/or passengers in the vehicles. In this study, we provide an efficient method that can collect acoustic data, measured using a large number of microphones, in order to detect abnormal operations inside the machine via deep learning in a quick and highly accurate manner. Unlike most current approaches based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) or autoencoders, we propose an anomaly detection (AD) algorithm that can overcome the limitations of noisy measurement and detection system anomalies via noise signals measured inside the mechanical system. These features are utilized to train a variety of anomaly detection models for demonstration in noisy environments with five different errors in machine operation, achieving an accuracy of approximately 90% or more.


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