高齢者見守りのための 3D-MHI を用いた人の動作認識

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Nowadays the population of elderly people who live alone has been growing continuously. When they encounter an accident at home, they won’t be able to ask for help in the worst case. Under these circumstances, development of an automatic system to care elderly people living alone becomes increasingly important. We have been developing a computer vision system which finds abnormal motions of elderly people among their daily activities indoors. In this paper, we propose a new method of human motion representation called 3D-MHIs (3-dimensional-Motion History Image) based on FoE (Focus of Expansion) and a method of human motion recognition employing 3-D Hu moments by use of a single camera view. The method can recognize not only those motions parallel to a camera lens but also those motions toward depth direction. The effectiveness of the proposed method was experimentally shown.