Human Distress Sound Analysis and Characterization Using Advanced Classification Techniques

The analysis of sounds generated in close proximity of a subject can often indicate emergency events like falls, pain and other distress situations. This paper presents a system for collecting and analyzing sounds and speech expressions utilizing on-body sensors and advanced classification techniques for emergency events detection. A variety of popular classification and meta-classification algorithms have been evaluated and the corresponding results are presented.

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