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Detecting Fall Risk Factors for Toddlers
January-March 2011 (vol. 10 no. 1)
pp. 82-89
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Hana Na, Sheng-Feng Qin, David K. Wright, "Detecting Fall Risk Factors for Toddlers," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 82-89, January-March, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MPRV.2010.19,
author = {Hana Na and Sheng-Feng Qin and David K. Wright},
title = {Detecting Fall Risk Factors for Toddlers},
journal ={IEEE Pervasive Computing},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
issn = {1536-1268},
year = {2011},
pages = {82-89},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2010.19},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Pervasive Computing
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KW - real-time systems
KW - implementation
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KW - computing methodologies
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Hana Na, LG Electronics
Sheng-Feng Qin, Brunel University
David K. Wright, Brunel University
Preventing accidental injuries of toddlers requires thorough, consistent supervision, but this isn't always practical. A proposed vision-based system detects three fall risk factors in the home environment to help caregivers supervise nearby toddlers when they can't give continuous attention to the toddlers. The crucial technical challenge is to differentiate a human from other foreground objects in the images. Unlike previous systems, this one uses multiple dynamic motion cues for human detection, employing cues related to human appearance.

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Index Terms:
real-time systems, implementation, pattern recognition, computing methodologies, image processing and computer vision, computing methodologies, health, life and medical sciences, computer applications, pervasive computing
Citation:
Hana Na, Sheng-Feng Qin, David K. Wright, "Detecting Fall Risk Factors for Toddlers," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 82-89, Jan.-March 2011, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2010.19
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