scholarly journals Intelligent fall detection system for eldercare

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Liang Liu

Fall among elders is a main reason to cause accidental death among the population over the age 65 in United States. The fall detection methods have been brought into scene by implemented on different fall monitoring devices. For the advantages in privacy protection and non-invasive, independent of light, I design the fall detection system based on Doppler radar sensor. This dissertation explores different Doppler radar sensor configurations and positioning in both of the lab and real senior home environment, signal processing and machine learning algorithms. Firstly, I design the system based on the data collected with three configurations: two floor radars, one ceiling and one wall radars, one ceiling and one floor radars in lab. The performance of the sensor positioning and features are evaluated with classifiers: support vector machine, nearest neighbor, naïve Bayes, hidden Markov model. In the real senior home, I investigate the system by evaluating the detection variances caused by training dataset due to the variable subjects and environment settings. Moreover, I adjust the automatic fall detection system for the actual retired community apartment. I examine different features: Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), local binary patterns (LBP) and the combined version of features with RELIEF algorithm. I also improve the detection performance with both pre-screener and features selection. I fuse the radar fall detection system with motion sensors. I develop a standalone fall detection system and generate a result to display on a designed webpage.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Rashmi Shrivastava ◽  
Manju Pandey

Human fall detection is a subcategory of ambient assisted living. Falls are dangerous for old aged people especially those who are unaccompanied. Detection of falls as early as possible along with high accuracy is indispensable to save the person otherwise it may lead to physical disability even death also. The proposed fall detection system is implemented in the edge computing scenario. An adaptive window-based approach is proposed here for feature extraction because window size affects the performance of the classifier. For training and testing purposes two public datasets and our collected dataset have been used. Anomaly identification based on a support vector machine with an enhanced chi-square kernel is used here for the classification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and fall activities. Using the proposed approach 100% sensitivity and 98.08% specificity have been achieved which are better when compared with three recent research based on unsupervised learning. One of the important aspects of this study is that it is also validated on actual real fall data and got 100% accuracy. This complete fall detection model is implemented in the fog computing scenario. The proposed approach of adaptive window based feature extraction is better than static window based approaches and three recent fall detection methods.


Author(s):  
Komal Singh ◽  
Akshay Rajput ◽  
Sachin Sharma

Human fall due to an accident can cause heavy injuries which may lead to a major medical issue for elderly people. With the introduction of new advanced technologies in the healthcare sector, an alarm system can be developed to detect a human fall. This paper summarizes various human fall detection methods and techniques, through observing people’s daily routine activities. A human fall detection system can be designed using one of these technologies: wearable based device, context-aware based and vision based methods. In this paper, we discuss different machine learning models designed to detect human fall using these techniques. These models have already been designed to discriminate fall from activities of daily living (ADL) like walking, moving, sitting, standing, lying and bending. This paper is aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of these machine learning algorithms for the detection of human fall.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Sekhar ◽  
K. Sasirekha ◽  
P. S. Raja ◽  
K. Thangavel

Abstract Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) have received more attention to safeguarding the vital information in a network system of an organization. Generally, the hackers are easily entering into a secured network through loopholes and smart attacks. In such situation, predicting attacks from normal packets is tedious, much challenging, time consuming and highly technical. As a result, different algorithms with varying learning and training capacity have been explored in the literature. However, the existing Intrusion Detection methods could not meet the desired performance requirements. Hence, this work proposes a new Intrusion Detection technique using Deep Autoencoder with Fruitfly Optimization. Initially, missing values in the dataset have been imputed with the Fuzzy C-Means Rough Parameter (FCMRP) algorithm which handles the imprecision in datasets with the exploit of fuzzy and rough sets while preserving crucial information. Then, robust features are extracted from Autoencoder with multiple hidden layers. Finally, the obtained features are fed to Back Propagation Neural Network (BPN) to classify the attacks. Furthermore, the neurons in the hidden layers of Deep Autoencoder are optimized with population based Fruitfly Optimization algorithm. Experiments have been conducted on NSL_KDD and UNSW-NB15 dataset. The computational results of the proposed intrusion detection system using deep autoencoder with BPN are compared with Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN), BPN, and Autoencoder with Softmax. Article Highlights A hybridized model using Deep Autoencoder with Fruitfly Optimization is introduced to classify the attacks. Missing values have been imputed with the Fuzzy C-Means Rough Parameter method. The discriminate features are extracted using Deep Autoencoder with more hidden layers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Md Fahim Rizwan ◽  
Rayed Farhad ◽  
Md. Hasan Imam

This study represents a detailed investigation of induced stress detection in humans using Support Vector Machine algorithms. Proper detection of stress can prevent many psychological and physiological problems like the occurrence of major depression disorder (MDD), stress-induced cardiac rhythm abnormalities, or arrhythmia. Stress induced due to COVID -19 pandemic can make the situation worse for the cardiac patients and cause different abnormalities in the normal people due to lockdown condition. Therefore, an ECG based technique is proposed in this paper where the ECG can be recorded for the available handheld/portable devices which are now common to many countries where people can take ECG by their own in their houses and get preliminary information about their cardiac health. From ECG, we can derive RR interval, QT interval, and EDR (ECG derived Respiration) for developing the model for stress detection also. To validate the proposed model, an open-access database named "drivedb” available at Physionet (physionet.org) was used as the training dataset. After verifying several SVM models by changing the ECG length, features, and SVM Kernel type, the results showed an acceptable level of accuracy for Fine Gaussian SVM (i.e. 98.3% for 1 min ECG and 93.6 % for 5 min long ECG) with Gaussian Kernel while using all available features (RR, QT, and EDR). This finding emphasizes the importance of including ventricular polarization and respiratory information in stress detection and the possibility of stress detection from short length data(i.e. form 1 min ECG data), which will be very useful to detect stress through portable ECG devices in locked down condition to analyze mental health condition without visiting the specialist doctor at hospital. This technique also alarms the cardiac patients form being stressed too  much which might cause severe arrhythmogenesis.


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.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myeong Gyu Kim ◽  
Jae Hyun Kim ◽  
Kyungim Kim

BACKGROUND Garlic-related misinformation is prevalent whenever a virus outbreak occurs. Again, with the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), garlic-related misinformation is spreading through social media sites, including Twitter. Machine learning-based approaches can be used to detect misinformation from vast tweets. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop machine learning algorithms for detecting misinformation on garlic and COVID-19 in Twitter. METHODS This study used 5,929 original tweets mentioning garlic and COVID-19. Tweets were manually labeled as misinformation, accurate information, and others. We tested the following algorithms: k-nearest neighbors; random forest; support vector machine (SVM) with linear, radial, and polynomial kernels; and neural network. Features for machine learning included user-based features (verified account, user type, number of followers, and follower rate) and text-based features (uniform resource locator, negation, sentiment score, Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic probability, number of retweets, and number of favorites). A model with the highest accuracy in the training dataset (70% of overall dataset) was tested using a test dataset (30% of overall dataset). Predictive performance was measured using overall accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and balanced accuracy. RESULTS SVM with the polynomial kernel model showed the highest accuracy of 0.670. The model also showed a balanced accuracy of 0.757, sensitivity of 0.819, and specificity of 0.696 for misinformation. Important features in the misinformation and accurate information classes included topic 4 (common myths), topic 13 (garlic-specific myths), number of followers, topic 11 (misinformation on social media), and follower rate. Topic 3 (cooking recipes) was the most important feature in the others class. CONCLUSIONS Our SVM model showed good performance in detecting misinformation. The results of our study will help detect misinformation related to garlic and COVID-19. It could also be applied to prevent misinformation related to dietary supplements in the event of a future outbreak of a disease other than COVID-19.


Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1777
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali ◽  
Stavros Shiaeles ◽  
Gueltoum Bendiab ◽  
Bogdan Ghita

Detection and mitigation of modern malware are critical for the normal operation of an organisation. Traditional defence mechanisms are becoming increasingly ineffective due to the techniques used by attackers such as code obfuscation, metamorphism, and polymorphism, which strengthen the resilience of malware. In this context, the development of adaptive, more effective malware detection methods has been identified as an urgent requirement for protecting the IT infrastructure against such threats, and for ensuring security. In this paper, we investigate an alternative method for malware detection that is based on N-grams and machine learning. We use a dynamic analysis technique to extract an Indicator of Compromise (IOC) for malicious files, which are represented using N-grams. The paper also proposes TF-IDF as a novel alternative used to identify the most significant N-grams features for training a machine learning algorithm. Finally, the paper evaluates the proposed technique using various supervised machine-learning algorithms. The results show that Logistic Regression, with a score of 98.4%, provides the best classification accuracy when compared to the other classifiers used.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Ching Ho

Currently, video surveillance-based early fire smoke detection is crucial to the prevention of large fires and the protection of life and goods. To overcome the nighttime limitations of video smoke detection methods, a laser light can be projected into the monitored field of view, and the returning projected light section image can be analyzed to detect fire and/or smoke. If smoke appears within the monitoring zone created from the diffusion or scattering of light in the projected path, the camera sensor receives a corresponding signal. The successive processing steps of the proposed real-time algorithm use the spectral, diffusing, and scattering characteristics of the smoke-filled regions in the image sequences to register the position of possible smoke in a video. Characterization of smoke is carried out by a nonlinear classification method using a support vector machine, and this is applied to identify the potential fire/smoke location. Experimental results in a variety of nighttime conditions demonstrate that the proposed fire/smoke detection method can successfully and reliably detect fires by identifying the location of smoke.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 373-387
Author(s):  
Liyun Gong ◽  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Ming Zhu ◽  
Miao Yu ◽  
Ross Clifford ◽  
...  

In this paper, we propose a novel person specific fall detection system based on a monocular camera, which can be applied for assisting the independent living of an older adult living alone at home. A single camera covering the living area is used for video recordings of an elderly person’s normal daily activities. From the recorded video data, the human silhouette regions in every frame are then extracted based on the codebook background subtraction technique. Low-dimensionality representative features of extracted silhouetted are then extracted by convolutional neural network-based autoencoder (CNN-AE). Features obtained from the CNN-AE are applied to construct an one class support vector machine (OCSVM) model, which is a data driven model based on the video recordings and can be applied for fall detection. From the comprehensive experimental evaluations on different people in a real home environment, it is shown that the proposed fall detection system can successfully detect different types of falls (falls towards different orientations at different positions in a real home environment) with small false alarms.


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