A Real-Time Human Action Recognition Model for Assisted Living

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Main Authors: Wang, Yixuan, Stynes, Paul, Pathak, Pramod, Muntean, Cristina
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author Wang, Yixuan
Stynes, Paul
Pathak, Pramod
Muntean, Cristina
author_facet Wang, Yixuan
Stynes, Paul
Pathak, Pramod
Muntean, Cristina
contents Ensuring the safety and well-being of elderly and vulnerable populations in assisted living environments is a critical concern. Computer vision presents an innovative and powerful approach to predicting health risks through video monitoring, employing human action recognition (HAR) technology. However, real-time prediction of human actions with high performance and efficiency is a challenge. This research proposes a real-time human action recognition model that combines a deep learning model and a live video prediction and alert system, in order to predict falls, staggering and chest pain for residents in assisted living. Six thousand RGB video samples from the NTU RGB+D 60 dataset were selected to create a dataset with four classes: Falling, Staggering, Chest Pain, and Normal, with the Normal class comprising 40 daily activities. Transfer learning technique was applied to train four state-of-the-art HAR models on a GPU server, namely, UniFormerV2, TimeSformer, I3D, and SlowFast. Results of the four models are presented in this paper based on class-wise and macro performance metrics, inference efficiency, model complexity and computational costs. TimeSformer is proposed for developing the real-time human action recognition model, leveraging its leading macro F1 score (95.33%), recall (95.49%), and precision (95.19%) along with significantly higher inference throughput compared to the others. This research provides insights to enhance safety and health of the elderly and people with chronic illnesses in assisted living environments, fostering sustainable care, smarter communities and industry innovation.
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spellingShingle A Real-Time Human Action Recognition Model for Assisted Living
Wang, Yixuan
Stynes, Paul
Pathak, Pramod
Muntean, Cristina
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ensuring the safety and well-being of elderly and vulnerable populations in assisted living environments is a critical concern. Computer vision presents an innovative and powerful approach to predicting health risks through video monitoring, employing human action recognition (HAR) technology. However, real-time prediction of human actions with high performance and efficiency is a challenge. This research proposes a real-time human action recognition model that combines a deep learning model and a live video prediction and alert system, in order to predict falls, staggering and chest pain for residents in assisted living. Six thousand RGB video samples from the NTU RGB+D 60 dataset were selected to create a dataset with four classes: Falling, Staggering, Chest Pain, and Normal, with the Normal class comprising 40 daily activities. Transfer learning technique was applied to train four state-of-the-art HAR models on a GPU server, namely, UniFormerV2, TimeSformer, I3D, and SlowFast. Results of the four models are presented in this paper based on class-wise and macro performance metrics, inference efficiency, model complexity and computational costs. TimeSformer is proposed for developing the real-time human action recognition model, leveraging its leading macro F1 score (95.33%), recall (95.49%), and precision (95.19%) along with significantly higher inference throughput compared to the others. This research provides insights to enhance safety and health of the elderly and people with chronic illnesses in assisted living environments, fostering sustainable care, smarter communities and industry innovation.
title A Real-Time Human Action Recognition Model for Assisted Living
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18957