Lawrence O'Gorman
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Video Analytics Gait Trend Measurement for Fall Prevention and Health Monitoring
Lawrence O'Gorman, Xinyi Liu, Md Imran Sarker, Mariofanna Milanova
Auto-TLDR; Towards Health Monitoring of Gait with Deep Learning
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We design a video analytics system to measure gait over time and detect trend and outliers in the data. The purpose is for health monitoring, the thesis being that trend especially can lead to early detection of declining health and be used to prevent accidents such as falls in the elderly. We use the OpenPose deep learning tool for recognizing the back and neck angle features of walking people, and measure speed as well. Trend and outlier statistics are calculated upon time series of these features. A challenge in this work is lack of testing data of decaying gait. We first designed experiments to measure consistency of the system on a healthy population, then analytically altered this real data to simulate gait decay. Results on about 4000 gait samples of 50 people over 3 months showed good separation of healthy gait subjects from those with trend or outliers, and furthermore the trend measurement was able to detect subtle decay in gait not easily discerned by the human eye.