HMM-Based Human Fall Detection and Prediction Method Using Tri-Axial Accelerometer
- 5 February 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Sensors Journal
- Vol. 13 (5), 1849-1856
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2013.2245231
Abstract
Falls in the elderly have always been a serious medical and social problem. To detect and predict falls, a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based method using tri-axial accelerations of human body is proposed. A wearable motion detection device using tri-axial accelerometer is designed and realized, which can detect and predict falls based on tri-axial acceleration of human upper trunk. The acceleration time series (ATS) extracted from human motion processes are used to describe human motion features, and the ATS extracted from human fall courses but before the collision are used to train HMM so as to build a random process mathematical model. Thus, the outputs of HMM, which express the marching degrees of input ATS and HMM, can be used to evaluate the risks to fall. The experiment results show that fall events can be predicted 200-400 ms ahead the occurrence of collisions, and distinguished from other daily life activities with an accuracy of 100%.Keywords
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