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Remote Safety Monitoring for Elderly Persons Based on Omni-Vision Analysis

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  • Yun Xiang
  • Yi-ping Tang
  • Bao-qing Ma
  • Hang-chen Yan
  • Jun Jiang
  • Xu-yuan Tian

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Remote monitoring service for elderly persons is important as the aged populations in most developed countries continue growing. To monitor the safety and health of the elderly population, we propose a novel omni-directional vision sensor based system, which can detect and track object motion, recognize human posture, and analyze human behavior automatically. In this work, we have made the following contributions: (1) we develop a remote safety monitoring system which can provide real-time and automatic health care for the elderly persons and (2) we design a novel motion history or energy images based algorithm for motion object tracking. Our system can accurately and efficiently collect, analyze, and transfer elderly activity information and provide health care in real-time. Experimental results show that our technique can improve the data analysis efficiency by 58.5% for object tracking. Moreover, for the human posture recognition application, the success rate can reach 98.6% on average.

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  • Yun Xiang & Yi-ping Tang & Bao-qing Ma & Hang-chen Yan & Jun Jiang & Xu-yuan Tian, 2015. "Remote Safety Monitoring for Elderly Persons Based on Omni-Vision Analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(5), pages 1-16, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0124068
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124068
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