Fall Detection Depth-Based Using Tilt Angle and Shape Deformation

The population of elderly people is in growth. Falls risk their life, to disabilities, and to fears. Automatic fall detection systems provide them secure living; helping them to be independent at home. Computer vision offers efficient systems over many developed systems. In this article, the authors propose a new vision-based fall detection using depth camera. It combines human shape analysis, centroid detection and motion where it exploits the 3D information provided by a Kinect to compute the tilt angle to discriminate falls. Experimental tests were done with SDUFall dataset that contains 20 subjects performing five daily activities and falls, demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed system, and show that our method is promising achieving satisfactory results up to 84.66%.