NEAR-DROWNING EARLY PREDICTION TECHNIQUE USING NOVEL EQUATIONS (NEPTUNE) FOR SWIMMING POOLS
B David Prakash · 2018
Safety is a critical aspect in all swimming pools.This paper describes a near-drowning early prediction technique using novel equations (NEPTUNE).NEPTUNE uses equations or rules that would be able to detect near-drowning using at least 1 but not more than 5 seconds of video sequence with no false positives.The backbone of NEPTUNE encompasses a mix of statistical image processing to merge images for a video sequence followed by K-means clustering to extract segments in the merged image and finally a revisit to statistical image processing to derive variables for every segment.These variables would be used by the equations to identify near-drowning.NEPTUNE has the potential to be integrated into a swimming pool camera system that would send an alarm to the lifeguards for early response so that the likelihood of recovery is high.