Title
I see you lying on the ground — Can I help you? Fast fallen person detection in 3D with a mobile robot
Abstract
One important function in assistive robotics for home applications is the detection of emergency cases, like falls. In this paper, we present a new detection system which can run on a mobile robot to detect persons after a fall event robustly. The system is based on 3D Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) maps on which a powerful segmentation is applied. Segments most likely belonging to a person lying on the ground are grouped into clusters. After extracting features with a soft encoding approach, each cluster is classified separately. Our experiments show that the system is able to reliably detect fallen persons in real-time. It clearly outperforms other 3D state-of-the-art approaches. We can show that our system is able to handle even very challenging situations, where fallen persons are very close to other objects in the apartment. Such complex fall events often occur in real-world applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172283
2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
segmentation,soft encoding,complex fall events,fallen persons,soft encoding approach,3D Normal Distributions Transform maps,fall event,detection system,emergency cases,home applications,assistive robotics,mobile robot,person detection
Histogram,Computer vision,Computer science,Segmentation,Lying,Feature extraction,Person detection,Artificial intelligence,Mobile robot,Robotics,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-9445
978-1-5386-3519-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Lewandowski113.41
Tim Wengefeld235.15
Thomas Schmiedel300.68
Horst-Michael Gross476192.05