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An Online One Class Support Vector Machine-Based Person-Specific Fall Detection System for Monitoring an Elderly Individual in a Room Environment

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Mohsen Naqvi, Professor Jonathon Chambers

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel computer vision-based fall detection system for monitoring an elderly person in a home care, assistive living application. Initially, a single camera covering the full view of the room environment is used for the video recording of an elderly person's daily activities for a certain time period. The recorded video is then manually segmented into short video clips containing normal postures, which are used to compose the normal dataset. We use the codebook background subtraction technique to extract the human body silhouettes from the video clips in the normal dataset and information from ellipse fitting and shape description, together with position information, is used to provide features to describe the extracted posture silhouettes. The features are collected and an online one class support vector machine (OCSVM) method is applied to find the region in feature space to distinguish normal daily postures and abnormal postures such as falls. The resultant OCSVM model can also be updated by using the online scheme to adapt to new emerging normal postures and certain rules are added to reduce false alarm rate and thereby improve fall detection performance. From the comprehensive experimental evaluations on datasets for 12 people, we confirm that our proposed person-specific fall detection system can achieve excellent fall detection performance with 100% fall detection rate and only 3% false detection rate with the optimally tuned parameters. This work is a semiunsupervised fall detection system from a system perspective because although an unsupervised-type algorithm (OCSVM) is applied, human intervention is needed for segmenting and selecting of video clips containing normal postures. As such, our research represents a step toward a complete unsupervised fall detection system.

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Author(s): Yu M, Rhuma A, Naqvi SM, Wang L, Chambers JA

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Year: 2013

Volume: 17

Issue: 6

Pages: 1002-1014

Print publication date: 11/11/2013

Online publication date: 23/07/2013

ISSN (print): 2168-2194

ISSN (electronic): 2168-2208

Publisher: IEEE

URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2013.2274479

DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2274479

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