At the recent regional
event of the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the PhD students,
Sandipan Pal was awarded runners-up prize for his poster based on his PhD project
“Video-based Lifestyle Monitoring for Assisted Living”. This
collaborative project brings together the expertise of computer vision research
within the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) to
addresses the technical challenges involved in the creation and application of
video-based lifestyle monitoring system by health service researchers within
the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR). This project is part of the PIPIN
(Promoting Independence through Personalized Interactive Technologies) network,
funded by The University of Sheffield cross-cutting research network scheme
(click here for more information).
Sandipan’s poster was
one of the six finalists chosen from within the Faculty of Engineering to
represent the University at this event. At the event there were posters by
early career researchers from other UK universities. The poster was judged by
the Fellows of the Academy. Sandipan received his award from Dame Ann Dowling,
DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
A rapidly ageing world envisages the use of technology for promoting independent
living for the elderly. It is widely accepted that the amount of daily
activities undertaken is representative of ones’ health. Current passive home
monitoring technologies are mostly passive sensor-based. Often an obtrusive,
complicated sensor network monitors a single or multiple parameters of daily
living of an individual. On the other hand, with the reduction of camera prices
and the evolution of computer vision techniques, there is a growing interest of
using video-based systems for different application domains. This project
explores the idea of using a camera instead of passive sensors to monitor the
day to day activity levels of an individual within a home environment. Using
computer vision and machine learning techniques, a personalized profile of an
individual would be created which would be indicative of the daily activities
undertaken and representative of the health status of an individual within the
home environment thereby promoting healthy and independent living.
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