scholarly journals Hardware/Software Co-Design of Fractal Features Based Fall Detection System

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2322
Author(s):  
Ahsen Tahir ◽  
Gordon Morison ◽  
Dawn A. Skelton ◽  
Ryan M. Gibson

Falls are a leading cause of death in older adults and result in high levels of mortality, morbidity and immobility. Fall Detection Systems (FDS) are imperative for timely medical aid and have been known to reduce death rate by 80%. We propose a novel wearable sensor FDS which exploits fractal dynamics of fall accelerometer signals. Fractal dynamics can be used as an irregularity measure of signals and our work shows that it is a key discriminant for classification of falls from other activities of life. We design, implement and evaluate a hardware feature accelerator for computation of fractal features through multi-level wavelet transform on a reconfigurable embedded System on Chip, Zynq device for evaluating wearable accelerometer sensors. The proposed FDS utilises a hardware/software co-design approach with hardware accelerator for fractal features and software implementation of Linear Discriminant Analysis on an embedded ARM core for high accuracy and energy efficiency. The proposed system achieves 99.38% fall detection accuracy, 7.3× speed-up and 6.53× improvements in power consumption, compared to the software only execution with an overall performance per Watt advantage of 47.6×, while consuming low reconfigurable resources at 28.67%.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4335
Author(s):  
Goran Šeketa ◽  
Lovro Pavlaković ◽  
Dominik Džaja ◽  
Igor Lacković ◽  
Ratko Magjarević

Automatic fall detection systems ensure that elderly people get prompt assistance after experiencing a fall. Fall detection systems based on accelerometer measurements are widely used because of their portability and low cost. However, the ability of these systems to differentiate falls from Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is still not acceptable for everyday usage at a large scale. More work is still needed to raise the performance of these systems. In our research, we explored an essential but often neglected part of accelerometer-based fall detection systems—data segmentation. The aim of our work was to explore how different configurations of windows for data segmentation affect detection accuracy of a fall detection system and to find the best-performing configuration. For this purpose, we designed a testing environment for fall detection based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and evaluated the influence of the number and duration of segmentation windows on the overall detection accuracy. Thereby, an event-centered approach for data segmentation was used, where windows are set relative to a potential fall event detected in the input data. Fall and ADL data records from three publicly available datasets were utilized for the test. We found that a configuration of three sequential windows (pre-impact, impact, and post-impact) provided the highest detection accuracy on all three datasets. The best results were obtained when either a 0.5 s or a 1 s long impact window was used, combined with pre- and post-impact windows of 3.5 s or 3.75 s.


Author(s):  
Ainul Husna Mohd Yusoff Et.al

Elderly are the world’s largest growing population, categorized over the age of 60 to 65 years. They are the ones who prone to fall due to their old age and low self-efficacy, thus making them vulnerable to different accidents. Even doing daily activities can also expose the elderly to a fall incident. As a result, it has gained the attention of many researchers in conducting studies related to the elderly daily health care, especially in relation to the fall detection system. This paper aims to provide a systematic review on the classification of fall detection systems for the elderly. This systematic review is designed based on the existing and extensive literature review on fall detection systems guided by the prisma statement (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) review method. Based on this systematic review, four overarching themes that provide in-depth information on fall detection to detect fall events have been identified; classification of fall detection, basis development, type of sensor and detection technique. In a nutshell, the fall detection approach has successfully provided an alternative health care services for elderly who choose to live independently. Therefore, it is important to continue to develop a fall detection system that integrates with technology in order to provide a safe living environment for elderly, and for children, it can offer as an alternative for monitoring systems.


2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (7-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amin Hashim ◽  
Yuan Wen Hau ◽  
Rabia Baktheri

This paper studies two different Electrocardiography (ECG) preprocessing algorithms, namely Pan and Tompkins (PT) and Derivative Based (DB) algorithm, which is crucial of QRS complex detection in cardiovascular disease detection. Both algorithms are compared in terms of QRS detection accuracy and computation timing performance, with implementation on System-on-Chip (SoC) based embedded system that prototype on Altera DE2-115 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform as embedded software. Both algorithms are tested with 30 minutes ECG data from each of 48 different patient records obtain from MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. Results show that PT algorithm achieve 98.15% accuracy with 56.33 seconds computation while DB algorithm achieve 96.74% with only 22.14 seconds processing time. Based on the study, an optimized PT algorithm with improvement on Moving Windows Integrator (MWI) has been proposed to accelerate its computation. Result shows that the proposed optimized Moving Windows Integrator algorithm achieves 9.5 times speed up than original MWI while retaining its QRS detection accuracy. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1950016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duanpo Wu ◽  
Zimeng Wang ◽  
Hong Huang ◽  
Guangsheng Wang ◽  
Junbiao Liu ◽  
...  

Epilepsy is caused by sudden abnormal discharges of neurons in the brain. This paper constructs an automatic seizure detection system, which combines the predicting result of multi-domain feature with the predicting result of spike rate feature to detect the occurrence of epileptic seizures. After segmenting EEG data into 5[Formula: see text]s with 80% overlap epochs, the paper extracts time domain features, frequency domain features and hurst exponents (HE) from each epoch and these features are reduced by linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to be input parameters of the random forest (RF) classifier, which provides classification of the EEG epochs concerning the existence of seizures. In parallel, the paper extracts spikes from EEG data with morphological filter and calculates the spike rate to determine whether there is seizure. Then the results obtained by these two methods are merged as the final detection result. The paper shows that the accuracy (AC), sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP) and the false positive ratio based on event (FPRE) obtained by hybrid method are 98.94%, 76.60%, 98.99% and 2.43 times/h, respectively. Finally, the paper applies the seizure detection method to do seizure warning and recording to help the family member to take care of the patients and the doctor to adjust the antiepileptic drugs (AEDs).


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 3520-3525
Author(s):  
J. Refonaa ◽  
Bandaru Suhas ◽  
B. V. S. Bhaskar ◽  
S. L. JanyShabu ◽  
S. Dhamodaran ◽  
...  

It is a must to bring the fall detection system in to use with the increasing number of elder people in the world, because the most of them tend live voluntarily and at risk of injuries. Falls are dangerous in a few cases and could even lead to deadly injuries. A very robust fall detection system must be built in order to counter this problem. Here, we establish fall detection and recognition of daily live behavior through machine learning system. In order to detect different types of activities, including the detection of falls and day to-day activities, We use 2 shared archives for the accelerating and lateral speed data during this development. Logistic regression is used to determine motions such as drop, walk, climb, sit, stand and lie bases on the accelerating data and data on angular velocities. More specifically, the triaxial acceleration average value is used to achieve fall detection accuracy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moiz Ahmed ◽  
Nadeem Mehmood ◽  
Adnan Nadeem ◽  
Amir Mehmood ◽  
Kashif Rizwan

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Hong Park ◽  
Seunggi Lee ◽  
Seongjin Yun ◽  
Hanjin Kim ◽  
Won-Tae Kim

A fire detection system requires accurate and fast mechanisms to make the right decision in a fire situation. Since most commercial fire detection systems use a simple sensor, their fire recognition accuracy is deficient because of the limitations of the detection capability of the sensor. Existing proposals, which use rule-based algorithms or image-based machine learning can hardly adapt to the changes in the environment because of their static features. Since the legacy fire detection systems and network services do not guarantee data transfer latency, the required need for promptness is unmet. In this paper, we propose a new fire detection system with a multifunctional artificial intelligence framework and a data transfer delay minimization mechanism for the safety of smart cities. The framework includes a set of multiple machine learning algorithms and an adaptive fuzzy algorithm. In addition, Direct-MQTT based on SDN is introduced to solve the traffic concentration problems of the traditional MQTT. We verify the performance of the proposed system in terms of accuracy and delay time and found a fire detection accuracy of over 95%. The end-to-end delay, which comprises the transfer and decision delays, is reduced by an average of 72%.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 3768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kong ◽  
Chen ◽  
Wang ◽  
Chen ◽  
Meng ◽  
...  

Vision-based fall-detection methods have been previously studied but many have limitations in terms of practicality. Due to differences in rooms, users do not set the camera or sensors at the same height. However, few studies have taken this into consideration. Moreover, some fall-detection methods are lacking in terms of practicality because only standing, sitting and falling are taken into account. Hence, this study constructs a data set consisting of various daily activities and fall events and studies the effect of camera/sensor height on fall-detection accuracy. Each activity in the data set is carried out by eight participants in eight directions and taken with the depth camera at five different heights. Many related studies heavily depended on human segmentation by using Kinect SDK but this is not reliable enough. To address this issue, this study proposes Enhanced Tracking and Denoising Alex-Net (ETDA-Net) to improve tracking and denoising performance and classify fall and non-fall events. Experimental results indicate that fall-detection accuracy is affected by camera height, against which ETDA-Net is robust, outperforming traditional deep learning based fall-detection methods.


Author(s):  
Jivitesh Sharma ◽  
Charul Giri ◽  
Ole-Christoffer Granmo ◽  
Morten Goodwin

Abstract Recent advances in intrusion detection systems based on machine learning have indeed outperformed other techniques, but struggle with detecting multiple classes of attacks with high accuracy. We propose a method that works in three stages. First, the ExtraTrees classifier is used to select relevant features for each type of attack individually for each (ELM). Then, an ensemble of ELMs is used to detect each type of attack separately. Finally, the results of all ELMs are combined using a softmax layer to refine the results and increase the accuracy further. The intuition behind our system is that multi-class classification is quite difficult compared to binary classification. So, we divide the multi-class problem into multiple binary classifications. We test our method on the UNSW and KDDcup99 datasets. The results clearly show that our proposed method is able to outperform all the other methods, with a high margin. Our system is able to achieve 98.24% and 99.76% accuracy for multi-class classification on the UNSW and KDDcup99 datasets, respectively. Additionally, we use the weighted extreme learning machine to alleviate the problem of imbalance in classification of attacks, which further boosts performance. Lastly, we implement the ensemble of ELMs in parallel using GPUs to perform intrusion detection in real time.


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