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• TITLE: Indoor Human Detection Based on Thermal Array Sensor Data and Adaptive Background Estimation

  AUTHORS: Anna A. Trofimova, Andrea Masciadri, Fabio Veronese, Fabio Salice

  KEYWORDS: Thermal Array Sensor, Indoor Human Detection, Adaptive Background Estimation, Kalman Filtering, Smart Environment

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Computer and Communications, Vol.5 No.4, March 14, 2017

  ABSTRACT: Low Resolution Thermal Array Sensors are widely used in several applications in indoor environments. In particular, one of these cheap, small and unobtrusive sensors provides a low-resolution thermal image of the environment and, unlike cameras; it is capable to detect human heat emission even in dark rooms. The obtained thermal data can be used to monitor older seniors while they are performing daily activities at home, to detect critical situations such as falls. Most of the studies in activity recognition using Thermal Array Sensors require human detection techniques to recognize humans passing in the sensor field of view. This paper aims to improve the accuracy of the algorithms used so far by considering the temperature environment variation. This method leverages an adaptive background estimation and a noise removal technique based on Kalman Filter. In order to properly validate the system, a novel installation of a single sensor has been implemented in a smart environment: the obtained results show an improvement in human detection accuracy with respect to the state of the art, especially in case of disturbed environments.