Automate Fall Detection Using MediaPipe Keypoint-extraction

Fall accidents are becoming an increasingly common and serious issue worldwide, particularly among the elderly.These incidents are not only the leading cause of injuries and fatalities in older adults but also significantly impact their quality of life.Therefore, the research and development of automatic fall detection systems have become increasingly significant.Current fall detection devices often offer wearable solutions, which can cause unnecessary inconvenience and even reduce effectiveness.Elderly individuals, especially those in poor health, may forget to wear these devices.Therefore, developing an automatic fall detection system offers a more effective solution to address this issue.The proposed system uses MediaPipe for human body key-point extraction combined with a classification model of a Long-short term memory (LSTM) network or K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) algorithm.It is capable of identifying the fall actions of humans in real-time environment.