Abstract

In this paper we aim for the replication of a state of the art architecture for recognition of human actions using skeleton poses obtained from a depth sensor. We review the usefulness of accurate human action recognition in the field of robotic elderly care, focusing on fall detection. We attempt fall recognition using a chained Growing When Required neural gas classifier that is fed only skeleton joints data. We test this architecture against Recurrent SOMs (RSOMs) to classify the TST Fall detection database ver. 2, a specialised dataset for fall sequences. We also introduce a simplified mathematical model of falls for easier and faster bench-testing of classification algorithms for fall detection. The outcome of classifying falls from our mathematical model was successful with an accuracy of 97.12±1.65% and from the TST Fall detection database ver. 2 with an accuracy of 90.2±2.68% when a filter was added.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-46687-3_58

Publication Date

2016-09-30

Publication Title

Neural Information Processing 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings

Volume

9947

Publisher

Springer

ISBN

9783319466873

Embargo Period

2024-11-22

Keywords

Computers, fall detection

First Page

526

Last Page

534

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