3D-LiDAR-based Fall Detection by Dynamic Non-Linear Mapping with LSTM

With the aging of the population, the health of the elderly people has become a concern for many families. Monitoring of elderly people and the detection of their activities have become hot research topics. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature to detect such activity (e.g., falls), but their reliance on RGB cameras poses a serious threat to the privacy of the elderly. Therefore, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has attracted the attention of researchers. In this paper, we propose a novel method for fall detection using transfer learning and dynamic non-linear mapping to extract the human skeletons from depth images and implement a fall detection method using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network. We collected RGB images and depth images using 3D-LiDAR. The RGB images are used as a ground-truth for annotation and evaluation, whereas depth images are used as input to our proposed method. For fall detection, we achieved 98.5% accuracy, 97.0% precision, 100% recall, and 98.5% F1 score.