Behaviour and safety

    CCTV fall detection: a collapse in a hospital lift

    In a hospital lift, a nurse clutches their chest, slides down the wall and ends sitting collapsed on the floor.

    Fisheye ceiling camera in a hospital lift. A patient lies on the gurney while the nurse collapses.

    What the clip shows

    The camera is a fisheye on the ceiling of a hospital lift. It sees the whole small space at once, from directly above, with the curved edges typical of the lens. A patient lies on a gurney in the lift, and a nurse in blue scrubs, a cap and a mask stands beside it.

    The event is a collapse. The nurse clutches their chest, slides down against the wall of the lift and ends sitting collapsed on the floor. It happens within the six seconds of the clip and ends with the person sitting against the wall, not lying flat, so a system that only looks for a person lying down would be late.

    A lift is a good test for fall detection because the space is tight, the lighting is flat, and the frame holds other things besides the person who falls. Here the gurney and the patient are in view and must not be mistaken for the event. From above, a seated person on the floor and a standing person look different mainly in how much of the floor they cover.

    The clip is entirely synthetic and no real person appears in it. The dataset behind it has 1,000 images with person and fallen_person classes in YOLO and COCO formats, and a free sample of 113 images is published on Kaggle and Hugging Face.

    Camera
    Fisheye ceiling camera inside a hospital lift
    Scene
    Lift with a patient lying on a gurney
    Event
    Nurse in blue scrubs, cap and mask clutches their chest and collapses to the floor
    Classes
    person, fallen_person (dataset)
    Clip length
    6 seconds, 24 fps
    Resolution
    480 x 480

    Dataset

    The dataset this clip belongs to

    Sample frame from the CCTV Fall & Incident Detection datasetBehaviour & safety

    CCTV Fall & Incident Detection

    Synthetic fall detection dataset: 1,000 CCTV images of fallen people plus sitting and kneeling look-alikes, labelled person / fallen_person in YOLO and COCO.

    Size
    1,000 images
    Format
    YOLO + COCO
    View dataset

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