Review of Research Progress on Human Fall Detection Technology
Xinyu Zhang, Ning Chen · 2023
As an important means of ensuring human safety, fall detection technology can be widely applied in various fields such as elderly care, medical treatment, sports training and rehabilitation, industrial safety, etc., aiming to timely identify the risk of falls and take corresponding rescue measures to reduce the damage caused by falls to the human body. This article first briefly introduces the basic situation of human fall detection technology; According to the different implementation methods of the system, it is divided into wearable device based, environmental sensor based, and computer vision based fall detection. Then, each type of detection technology and system principle is analyzed, and the research progress in recent years is summarized; Finally, an overview of evaluation indicators and classic datasets was provided, and research on fall detection was summarized and prospected.