Fall-Detection

Detect humans falling on the ground from a CCTV camera feed and limit the physical damage to the person by alerting the hospital authorities.

Introduction

Elderly people tend to slip and fall in homes and remain unattended for a long time.
If the affected person is not treated immediately, serious health issues including brain injuries occur.
The proposed solution automatically detects humans falling, through cameras installed in homes, and sends notification to family members and hospital authorities.

Requirements

MATLAB R2013a

Usage

Installation

Download zip
Unzip
Open falldetection.m in MATLAB

MATLAB command line

falldetection <video_name>;

Example

falldetection video.mp4;

YouTube Demo Video Link

Demo of the project

Note

Live transmission from the camera to the software is not supported. Instead, the data from the camera is first stored and then processed.
The video feed should be saved in '..\Fall-Detection\Video' folder.
The notification is sent to the user through an app installed on the phone. The apk file is not included in this repository.

Reference Paper

C.Rougier,J.MeunierFall,A.Arnaud and J.Rousseau. Detection from Human Shape and Motion History using Video Surveillance. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops,2007.