One-Class Classification for Radar-Based Human Fall Event Detection

Abstract

Existing deep learning and machine learning techniques for radar-based fall event detection require a large number of fall activity instances at the training stage to produce reliable results. However, to replicate real-life scenarios, falls should be treated as rare events. This work pioneers the application of one-class classification (OCC) technique for radar-based fall event detection. A comparative analysis of three different types of OCC techniques using abstract features extracted from six different pre-trained models is shown. An improved novel feature fused OCC model is proposed that achieves an area under the curve value of 0.912 for fall event detection. All evaluations are done on a publicly available dataset of human radar signatures.