In-house deep environmental sentience for smart homecare solutions toward ageing society

Philip Easom, Ahmed Bouridane, Feiyu Qiang, L. I. Zhang, Carolyn Downs, Richard Jiang

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Abstract

With an increasing amount of elderly people needing home care around the clock, care workers are not able to keep up with the demand of providing maximum support to those who require it. As medical costs of home care increase the quality is care suffering as a result of staff shortages, a solution is desperately needed to make the valuable care time of these workers more efficient. This paper proposes a system that is able to make use of the deep learning resources currently available to produce a base system that could provide a solution to many of the problems that care homes and staff face today. Transfer learning was conducted on a deep convolutional neural network to recognize common household objects was proposed. This system showed promising results with an accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 90.6%, 0.90977 and 0.99668 respectively. Real-time applications were also considered, with the system achieving a maximum speed of 19.6 FPS on an MSI GTX 1060 GPU with 4GB of VRAM allocated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2020
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Pages261-266
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780738124261, 9781665419437
ISBN (Print)9781665430074
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Dec 2020
Event19th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 4 Dec 2020 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume2020-December
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/12/20 → …

Keywords

  • AIoT
  • Care surveillance
  • Smart homecare

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