/Fall-Detection-and-Alert-System

Human Fall Detection in a Video Clip, with Email Alert to User

Primary LanguageMATLABGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Introduction

Human Fall Detection from a Video Clip of a CCTV camera feed, which also alerts the user via E-mail.

Requirements

  1. MATLAB - R2019b or higher
  2. MATLAB Toolboxes:
    a. Image Processing Toolbox
    b. Computer Vision Toolbox

Execution

Run 'falldetection_via_videoclip.m' . This would read 'video.mp4' and detect the falling action of a human in that video. An e-mail alert would be send to user after fall detection.

Modification

To edit sender's and receiver's email addresses (and password and message), modify 'sendemail.m' .

Reference Paper

Caroline Rougier, Jean Meunier, Alain St-Arnaud, Jacqueline Rousseau ; “Fall Detection from Human Shape and Motion History Using Video Surveillance”; 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINAW’07), 2007.