A camera-based system for early detection of drowning incidents
Wenmiao Lu
Yap-Peng Tan
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore;
This paper appears in: Image Processing. 2002. Proceedings. 2002 International Conference on
Publication Date: 2002
Volume: 3,
On page(s): III-445- III-448 vol.3
ISSN: 1522-4880
ISBN: 0-7803-7622-6
INSPEC Accession Number: 7603809
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICIP.2002.1039001
Current Version Published: 2002-12-10
Abstract
We present in this paper a camera-based system for detecting drowning incidents in a swimming pool at the earliest possible stage. The system consists of two main parts: a vision component which can reliably detect and track swimmers in spite of large scene variations of monitored pool areas, and an event-inference module which parses observation sequences of swimmer features for possible drowning behavioral signs. The vision component employs a model-based approach to represent and differentiate background pool areas and foreground swimmers. The event-inference module is constructed based on a finite state machine, which integrates several reasoning rules formulated from universal motion characteristics of drowning swimmers. Possible drowning incidents are quickly detected using a sequential change detection algorithm. The proposed system has been applied to a number of video clips of simulated drowning, and promising results have been obtained.
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