Fall detection using single-tree complex wavelet transform

Yazar A., Keskin F., Toreyin B. U., Cetin A. E.

PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, cilt.34, sa.15, ss.1945-1952, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 15
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.patrec.2012.12.010
  • Dergi Adı: PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1945-1952
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Vibration sensor, PIR sensor, Falling person detection, Feature extraction, Single-tree complex wavelet transform, Support vector machines
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The goal of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) research is to improve the quality of life of the elderly and handicapped people and help them maintain an independent lifestyle with the use of sensors, signal processing and telecommunications infrastructure. Unusual human activity detection such as fall detection has important applications. In this paper, a fall detection algorithm for a low cost AAL system using vibration and passive infrared (PIR) sensors is proposed. The single-tree complex wavelet transform (ST-CWT) is used for feature extraction from vibration sensor signal. The proposed feature extraction scheme is compared to discrete Fourier transform and mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients based feature extraction methods. Vibration signal features are classified into "fall" and "ordinary activity" classes using Euclidean distance, Mahalanobis distance, and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers, and they are compared to each other. The PIR sensor is used for the detection of a moving person in a region of interest. The proposed system works in real-time on a standard personal computer. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.