Falling was defined according to the codes MB46.3 (A sudden spontaneous fall while standing and recovery within seconds or minutes) and MB47.C (Tendency to fall because of old age or other unclear health problems) from the International Classification of Diseases-11 (ICD-11). ...
Human falls, especially for elderly people, can cause serious injuries that might lead to permanent disability. Approximately 20–30% of the aged people in the United States who experienced fall accidents suffer from head trauma, injuries, or bruises. Fall detection is becoming an important public...
Torso Line and Torso Vector There are in total 20 points of a person's skeleton that can be tracked by the Kinect sensor when the person is standing, while 10 points when sitting if used in front view. Additionally, the untracked joints can be estimated by the embedded program in Kinect....
The dense STC algorithm was applied to track the head position. They calculated the distance between the head and floor plane. If the distance is lower than an adaptive threshold, then the centroid height of Sensors 2017, 17, 2096; doi:10.3390/s17092096 www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors Sensors ...