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ML-Based Edge Node for Monitoring Peoples' Frailty Status.

Antonio Nocera¹, Linda Senigagliesi¹, Gianluca Ciattaglia¹

¹Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche 12, 60131 Ancona, Italy.

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Summary

This study developed an intelligent system using cameras to monitor elderly personal hygiene, like hand washing and teeth brushing, enabling early detection of health issues. The contactless technology ensures privacy and maintains quality of life.

Keywords:

RGB Raspberry Pi4 deep learning edge computing frailty machine learning video

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Area of Science:

Computer Science
Gerontology
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Contactless monitoring is vital for elderly personal hygiene assessment, aiding early detection of frailty and preventing health decline.
Unobtrusive technology is key for maintaining elderly quality of life while monitoring health.
Edge computing and local data processing enhance privacy and efficiency in monitoring systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an intelligent system for contactless assessment of personal hygiene activities in the elderly.
To classify key hygiene actions including teeth brushing, hand washing, and hair fixing using video data.
To evaluate the system's performance under low frame rates and varying observation times.

Main Methods:

Utilized RGB video frames as input for the intelligent system.
Employed Mediapipe algorithms to extract body pose and hand keypoints as features.
Implemented a Light Gradient Boosting Machine classifier for action recognition.

Main Results:

The optimal feature extraction combined complex Mediapipe pose and hand keypoint estimators.
The system achieved over 94% weighted F1-score at one frame per second with seven-second observation windows.
Enlarging the observation window to ten seconds resulted in F1-scores between 94.66% and 96.35%.

Conclusions:

The developed intelligent system effectively classifies personal hygiene activities in the elderly using contactless video analysis.
The system demonstrates high accuracy and efficiency, even at low frame rates, making it suitable for unobtrusive monitoring.
This technology holds promise for early detection of health issues and intervention in elderly populations.