FALL DETECTION DEVICE, FALL DETECTION METHOD, FALL DETECTION CAMERA AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

Disclosed is a fall detection device and the like such that even when a video with low frame rate is used, and a CPU that demonstrates inferior performance is employed, it is possible to detect, with a higher accuracy, that a human body has fallen.;This fall detection device 1 comprises includes a height detection unit 2 detects whether or not the height of a human body decreases, an appearance feature extraction unit 3 that extracts an appearance feature, an appearance detection unit 5 that determines whether or not the human body has fallen and a moving distance detection unit 4 that detects when the moving distance is small, that the human body to be detected has fallen.