Fall Detection for Elderly People Using the Variation of Key Points of Human Skeleton

Abstract

In the area of health care, fall is a dangerous problem for aged persons. Sometimes, they are a serious cause of death. In addition to that, the number of aged persons will increase in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an accurate system to detect fall. In this paper, we present spatiotemporal method to detect fall form videos filmed by surveillance cameras. Firstly, we computed key points of human skeleton. We calculated distances and angles between key points of each two pair sequences frames. After that, we applied Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to unify the dimension of features. Finally, we utilized Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree, Random Forest and K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) to classify features. We found that SVM is the best classifier to our method. The results of our algorithm are as follow: accuracy is 98.5%, sensitivity is 97% and the specificity is 100%.

Keywords

• Fall detection
• health care
• human pose estimation