Identification of Getting Up Action of elderly people by Image Processing using Reflective Sheet

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Due to the labor shortage at Long-Term Care Health Facilities, the number of fall accidents is increasing at night. Therefore, to make up for labor shortages and assist with operations, it is necessary to construct a monitoring system that can detect the getting up action of the people requiring nursing care. So, in this study, we proposed a monitoring system that can detect the getting up using the infrared camera. As a verification result, we found that by using the near-infrared reflective sheet, it became easy to detect and track the actions and the features of the actions could be obtained. In addition, we proposed an algorithm that is a novel and specific to the body movement that proceeds to bed fall.