Hobbit: Providing Fall Detection and Prevention for the Elderly in the Real World

Figure 12

Vision-based emergency detection of a fallen user lying on the floor. The upper and lower middle images show the captured frame from the head and bottom cameras, respectively. The green dots mark a found skeleton within the search area (green and blue rectangles). (a–c) No human, no detection; person lying on the floor, correct detection; volumetric data from the head’s depth and temperature sensor are in conflict with the volumetric date provided by the bottom depth sensor.

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