Presentation 2020-10-22
Basic Design of a Monitoring Method for Infants Based on Their Relations to Objects in a Room
Takumi Ohnuki, Toru Abe, Takuo Suganuma,
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Abstract(in English) The number of infants taken to hospitals by ambulance has increased in recent years, and one of the most common reasons is unforeseen accidents in rooms. Consequently, systems which can detect pre-accident situations for infants in a room and warn the adults around them of the detected situations will help prevent such unforeseen accidents among infants. We propose a method for detecting pre-accident situations of infants in a room. Unforeseen accidents among infants mainly occur in relation to objects in the room, e.g., falls from chairs, burns caused by heaters, accidental ingestion. Accordingly, the proposed method recognizes the states (positions, postures, and movements) of each infant in the room from a video image, determines the relations between the infant and specified objects (places) by referring to a room model, and then detects pre-accident situations of the infant, such as approaching dangerous areas, getting off balance at critical places, and touching unsafe objects. Key words visual monitoring, infant, unforeseen accident, pre-accident situation, room model
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Keyword(in English) visual monitoring / infant / unforeseen accident / pre-accident situation / room model
Paper # SP2020-10,WIT2020-11
Date of Issue 2020-10-15 (SP, WIT)

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Committee WIT / SP / IPSJ-SLP
Conference Date 2020/10/22(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Chair Daisuke Wakatsuki(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Hisashi Kawai(NICT) / 北岡 教英(豊技大)
Vice Chair Shinji Sakou(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Shinji Sakou(Saitama Industrial Tech. Center) / (Teikyo Univ.) / (Univ. of Tokyo)
Assistant Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Minako Hosono(AIST) / Aki Sugano(Nagoya Univ.) / Yusuke Ijima(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology / Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Basic Design of a Monitoring Method for Infants Based on Their Relations to Objects in a Room
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) visual monitoring
Keyword(2) infant
Keyword(3) unforeseen accident
Keyword(4) pre-accident situation
Keyword(5) room model
1st Author's Name Takumi Ohnuki
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Toru Abe
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Takuo Suganuma
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
Date 2020-10-22
Paper # SP2020-10,WIT2020-11
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) SP-197,WIT-198
Page pp.pp.13-18(SP), pp.13-18(WIT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-10-15 (SP, WIT)