Vision-Based 3D Human Motion Analysis for Fall Detection and Bed-Exiting

<p>Fall is one of the most dangerous and costly accidents that threaten health of elderly people, and a large portion of falls occurs when a patient is trying to exit a bed. This thesis proposes two vision-based approaches for general fall detection and bed-exiting detection for elderly people, respectively. The Kinect sensor is chosen as the major monitoring device.</p> <p>The first approach exploits the Kinect sensor with its Windows SDK to detect fall activities. The recorded spatial coordinates of the human body joints from Kinect's 3D skeletal view are processed to extract posture features. Then the principle component analysis and k-means clustering algorithms are applied for dimensionality reduction, vector quantization and feature translation. HMMs are well known for their application in temporal pattern recognition, thus they are chosen for this project to classify human motion which is a temporal sequence of postures. HMMs are trained by the labelled extracted features to model and discriminate four fall motion classes and three non-fall classes.</p> <p>The second approach utilizes segmented motion history image (MHI) sequences to extract space-temporal features of a moving human body. Eight Hu image moments are calculated to translate the space-temporal features of each frame into vectors to describe video frames. The k-means clustering and HMM modelling are utilized for vector quantization and classification between bed-exiting activities and rolling-on-bed activities. In addition, likelihood probability curves are generated along the time line of all MHIs, endeavoring to predict a bed-exiting activity.</p> <p>Detailed descriptions of the experiments and result evaluation are documented in this thesis. The experimental results using human subjects verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approaches for general fall detection and bed-exiting prediction.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Dai, Xiaoxiao

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jun Zhang, Ph.D.
• Bradley Davidson
• Mohammad H. Mahoor

• Bed-exiting detection
• Bed-exiting prediction
• Fall detection
• Kinect sensor
• MHI
• Vision-based
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Engineering

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• <p>Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>

Language dc:language

en

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/152

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-1151