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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Differentiating Human Falls from Daily Activities Using Machine Learning Methods Based on Accelerometer and Altimeter Sensor Fusion Feature Engineering.

Krunoslav Jurčić, Ratko Magjarević

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Krunoslav JurčićFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-3231-9978
Ratko MagjarevićFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-7260-3906

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a detailed analysis of signal data acquired from wearable sensors such as accelerometers and barometric altimeters for human activity recognition, with an emphasis on fall detection. This research addressed two types of activity recognition tasks: a binary classification problem between activities of daily living (ADLs) and simulated fall activities and a multiclass classification problem involving five different activities (running, walking, sitting down, jumping, and falling). By combining features derived from both sensors, traditional machine models such as random forest, support vector machine, XGBoost, logistic regression, and majority voter models were used for both classification problems. All of the aforementioned methods generally produced better results using combined features of both sensors compared to single-sensor models, highlighting the potential of sensor fusion approaches for fall detection.

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AccelerometryAccidental FallsActivities of Daily LivingMachine LearningMonitoring, AmbulatoryAlgorithmsHumansSupport Vector MachineWearable Electronic Devicesaccelerometerbarometric altimeterfall detectionhuman activity recognitionmachine learningsensor fusionsignal processing

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PMID41374594
PMCPMC12694294

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