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Ambient assisted living (AAL) systems need to understand the user’s situation, which makes activity recognition an important component. Falls are one of the most critical problems of the elderly, so AAL systems often incorporate fall detection. We present an activity recognition (AR) and fall detection (FD) system aiming to provide robust real-time performance. It uses two wearable accelerometers, since this is probably the most mature technology for such purpose. For the AR, we developed an architecture that combines rules to recognize postures, which ensures that the behavior of the system is predictable and robust, and classifiers trained with machine learning algorithms, which provide maximum accuracy in the cases that cannot be handled by the rules. For the FD, rules are used that take into account high accelerations associated with falls and the recognized horizontal orientation (e.g., falling is often followed by lying). The system was tested on a dataset containing a wide range of activities, two different types of falls and two events easily mistaken for falls. The F-measure of the AR was 99 %, even though it was never tested on the same persons it was trained on. The F-measure of the FD was 78 % due to the difficulty of the events to be recognized and the need for real-time performance, which made it impossible to rely on the recognition of long lying after a fall.
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Kozina, S., Gjoreski, H., Gams, M., Luštrek, M. (2013). Efficient Activity Recognition and Fall Detection Using Accelerometers. In: Botía, J.A., Álvarez-García, J.A., Fujinami, K., Barsocchi, P., Riedel, T. (eds) Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking. EvAAL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 386. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41043-7_2
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