Vision-Based Gait Analysis for Senior Care

Understand

As the senior population rapidly increases, it is challenging yet crucial to provide effective long-term care for seniors who live at home or in senior care facilities.

• Smart senior homes, which have gained widespread interest in the healthcare community, have been proposed to improve the well-being of seniors living independently.
• In particular, non-intrusive, cost-effective sensors placed in these senior homes enable gait characterization, which can provide clinically relevant information including mobility level and early neurodegenerative disease risk.
• In this paper, we present a method to perform gait analysis from a single camera placed within the home.