The CIRDO Corpus: Comprehensive Audio/Video Database of Domestic Falls of Elderly People

Michel Vacher, Saïda Bouakaz, Marc-Eric Bobillier Chaumon, Frédéric Aman, R. A. Khan, Slima Bekkadja, François Portet, Erwan Guillou, Solange Rossato, Benjamin Lecouteux


Abstract
Ambient Assisted Living aims at enhancing the quality of life of older and disabled people at home thanks to Smart Homes. In particular, regarding elderly living alone at home, the detection of distress situation after a fall is very important to reassure this kind of population. However, many studies do not include tests in real settings, because data collection in this domain is very expensive and challenging and because of the few available data sets. The C IRDO corpus is a dataset recorded in realistic conditions in D OMUS , a fully equipped Smart Home with microphones and home automation sensors, in which participants performed scenarios including real falls on a carpet and calls for help. These scenarios were elaborated thanks to a field study involving elderly persons. Experiments related in a first part to distress detection in real-time using audio and speech analysis and in a second part to fall detection using video analysis are presented. Results show the difficulty of the task. The database can be used as standardized database by researchers to evaluate and compare their systems for elderly person’s assistance.
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L16-1221
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1389–1396
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Michel Vacher, Saïda Bouakaz, Marc-Eric Bobillier Chaumon, Frédéric Aman, R. A. Khan, Slima Bekkadja, François Portet, Erwan Guillou, Solange Rossato, and Benjamin Lecouteux. 2016. The CIRDO Corpus: Comprehensive Audio/Video Database of Domestic Falls of Elderly People. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1389–1396, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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The CIRDO Corpus: Comprehensive Audio/Video Database of Domestic Falls of Elderly People (Vacher et al., LREC 2016)
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