Audio Event Detection for In-Home Care

One in eight persons attending hospital following an accident in the home, are aged 65 and over. This number will increase with the demographic change and the desire of the elderly to remain in their own homes. Hence, the demand for unobtrusive monitoring systems based on autonomous sensor technologies will increase. Such systems can limit observation by a human operator to cases when there is evidence of an incident, by responding to events in a ‘human-like’ fashion. To do so, the system must pick up situations that would also attract human attention, including situations it has not encountered before.