Title
A Data-Driven Approach for Online Pre-impact Fall Detection with Wearable Devices
Abstract
The implementation of wearable airbags to prevent fall injuries depends on accurate pre-impact fall detection and a clear distinction between activities of daily living (ADL) and them. We propose a novel pre-impact fall detection algorithm that is robust against ambiguous falling activities. We present a data-driven approach to estimate the fall risk from acceleration and angular velocity features and use thresholding techniques to robustly detect a fall before impact. In the experiment, we collect simulated fall data from subjects wearing an inertial sensor on their waist. As a result, we succeeded in significantly improving the accuracy of fall detection from 50.00 to 96.88%, the recall from 18.75 to 93.75%, and the specificity 81.25 to 100.00% over the baseline method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-981-19-0361-8_8
SENSOR- AND VIDEO-BASED ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOR COMPUTING, ABC 2021
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
291
2190-3018
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9