Vision-Based Fall Event Detection in Complex Background Using Attention Guided Bi-Directional LSTM

Fall event, as one of the greatest risks to the elderly, its detection has been a hot research issue in the solitary scene in recent years. Nevertheless, most current researches are conducted in the ideal environments, without considering the challenge of complex background in real situation. Therefore, this paper aims to detect fall event detection in complex background based on visual data. Different from most conventional background subtraction methods which depend on background modeling, Mask R-CNN method is first used to accurately extract the moving objects in the noise background. Then, an attention guided Bi-directional LSTM model is proposed for the final fall event detection. To demonstrate the efficiency, the proposed method is verified in the public dataset and self-build dataset. Evaluation of the algorithm performances in comparison with other state-of-the-art methods indicates that the proposed design is accurate and robust, which means it is suitable for the task of fall event detection in complex situation.