New Method for Medical Intake Detection by Kinect

This article describes a new technique for unobtrusive detection of medication intake in a non-wearable system equipped by Kinect. Unlike existing methods that rely on skeletal modeling, the proposed technique fuses the depth image data with the RGB image data, making decisions based on both the spatial coordinates and the mouth features. Experiments show that such formulation provides the medication intake recognition in real time with better accuracy than existing methods.