<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents the necessity and possibility of smart sensing using a multitude of sensors such as audio and visual sensors for human movement detection for home-care and home security applications in a smart environment. We define an event and spatial relationship based approach to the problem. Use of multisensory information to even detection is proposed and its prototype implementation to detect events like falling, walking, standing, shouting etc. are presented. Use of audio sensor based event detection and video sensor based event detection helped to increase the number of different types of actions that can be detected within a smart environment. Video sensors detected the actions at 94.44% accuracy while the audio sensors detected the actions at 83.35%. In addition to that the video based fall detection accuracy was 93.3%. Currently we are working in real life data capture and analysis using multi-sensor integration</p></abstract>

This paper presents the necessity and possibility of smart sensing using a multitude of sensors such as audio and visual sensors for human movement detection for home-care and home security applications in a smart environment. We define an event and spatial relationship based approach to the problem. Use of multisensory information to even detection is proposed and its prototype implementation to detect events like falling, walking, standing, shouting etc. are presented. Use of audio sensor based event detection and video sensor based event detection helped to increase the number of different types of actions that can be detected within a smart environment. Video sensors detected the actions at 94.44% accuracy while the audio sensors detected the actions at 83.35%. In addition to that the video based fall detection accuracy was 93.3%. Currently we are working in real life data capture and analysis using multi-sensor integration

Audiovisual Sensing of Human Movements for Home-Care and Security in a Smart Environment

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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This paper presents the necessity and possibility of smart sensing using a multitude of sensors such as audio and visual sensors for human movement detection...

Audiovisual Sensing of Human Movements for Home-Care and Security in a Smart Environment

Published Online: Dec 13, 2017

Page range: 220 - 245

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-288

Keywords
video sensor based detection, audio sensor based detection, human movements, homecare, security, smart environments, background segmentation

© 2008 Liyanage C De Silva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Audiovisual Sensing of Human Movements for Home-Care and Security in a Smart Environment

Published Online: Dec 13, 2017

Page range: 220 - 245

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-288

Keywordsvideo sensor based detection, audio sensor based detection, human movements, homecare, security, smart environments, background segmentation

© 2008 Liyanage C De Silva et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
video sensor based detection, audio sensor based detection, human movements, homecare, security, smart environments, background segmentation