Title: Sensor-based detection of abnormal events for elderly people using deep belief networks

Authors: Yo-Ping Huang; Haobijam Basanta; Hung-Chou Kuo; Hsin-Ta Chiao

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, 10608, Taiwan; Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, New Taipei City, 23741, Taiwan ' Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, 10608, Taiwan ' Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, 33333, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, 40704, Taiwan

Abstract: Various technological developments in home-care systems have allowed elderly people to live independently without compromising their safety. A pilot study employing deep learning algorithm was conducted to study the daily routines of elderly people. We monitored unsupervised, diverse daily activities of elderly people such as household chores, sleeping, cooking, cleaning, using the bathroom, watching television, and meditating. The activities were monitored to track human-environment interactions by using motion sensors, actuators, and surveillance systems that were mounted inside living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens and on bathroom doorways to detect safety hazards in the environment for elderly people. Such collected data were used in deep belief networks to ascertain and identify activities that are related to various health and self-care problems. Simulation results show that the proposed system outperforms the support vector machines in terms of F1 score and accuracy in identifying daily activities.

Keywords: sensors; deep belief network; DBN; daily activities; abnormal events.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2020.104714

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2020 Vol.33 No.1, pp.36 - 47

Received: 05 Dec 2018
Accepted: 11 Feb 2019
Published online: 29 Jan 2020 *

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