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ARTICLE

An Intelligent HealthCare Monitoring Framework for Daily Assistant Living

by Yazeed Yasin Ghadi¹, Nida Khalid², Suliman A. Alsuhibany³, Tamara al Shloul⁴, Ahmad Jalal², Jeongmin Park^5,*

1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Al Ain University, Al Ain, 15551, UAE
2 Department of Computer Science, Air University, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
3 Department of Computer Science, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Humanities and Social Science, Al Ain University, Al Ain, 15551, UAE
5 Department of Computer Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, 237, Korea

* Corresponding Author: Jeongmin Park. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 72(2), 2597-2615. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.024422

Received 16 October 2021; Accepted 12 January 2022; Issue published 29 March 2022

Abstract

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays an important role in life care and health monitoring since it involves examining various activities of patients at homes, hospitals, or offices. Hence, the proposed system integrates Human-Human Interaction (HHI) and Human-Object Interaction (HOI) recognition to provide in-depth monitoring of the daily routine of patients. We propose a robust system comprising both RGB (red, green, blue) and depth information. In particular, humans in HHI datasets are segmented via connected components analysis and skin detection while the human and object in HOI datasets are segmented via saliency map. To track the movement of humans, we proposed orientation and thermal features. A codebook is generated using Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) algorithm for vector quantization. Then, the quantized vectors generated from image sequences of HOI are given to Artificial Neural Network (ANN) while the quantized vectors generated from image sequences of HHI are given to K-ary tree hashing for classification. There are two publicly available datasets used for experimentation on HHI recognition: Stony Brook University (SBU) Kinect interaction and the University of Lincoln's (UoL) 3D social activity dataset. Furthermore, two publicly available datasets are used for experimentation on HOI recognition: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) RGB-D and Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) 3D HOI datasets. The results proved the validity of the proposed system.

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