A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention

Falls are a serious public health concern in a society where the elderly population is growing and requires prompt medical attention. Despite the proliferation of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for fall detection, their efficacy remains hampered by resilience, robustness, and adaptabi...

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Main Authors: Sarita Sahni, Sweta Jain, Sri Khetwat Saritha
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2025.2450553
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description Falls are a serious public health concern in a society where the elderly population is growing and requires prompt medical attention. Despite the proliferation of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for fall detection, their efficacy remains hampered by resilience, robustness, and adaptability challenges across varied input scenarios. When using models that utilize multiple sensors, giving equal importance to each sensor can lead to errors because some activities may appear similar. To address this issue, researchers propose integrating attention mechanisms, which help prioritize important information from the sensors and reduce the impact of over lapping activity patterns. These challenges limit their practical implementation in wearable systems. To address these limitations, this study introduces an innovative attention-based ensemble model for fall detection; by integrating a convolutional neural network with channel attention and a bidirectional long short-term memory with temporal attention, the model prioritizes relevant information within time series data. The channel attention module uncovers interrelationships between variables. Meanwhile, the temporal attention module captures associations within the sensor data’s temporal dimension, allowing the model to focus on critical features and enhance performance. The experimental findings reveal impressive classification accuracies of 97.93% and 98.99% on the KFall and SisFall datasets, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-92410e77675c4e7da7365e01e44a6fc12025-01-31T07:03:33ZengTaylor & Francis GroupAutomatika0005-11441848-33802025-04-0166210311610.1080/00051144.2025.2450553A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attentionSarita Sahni0Sweta Jain1Sri Khetwat Saritha2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, IndiaFalls are a serious public health concern in a society where the elderly population is growing and requires prompt medical attention. Despite the proliferation of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for fall detection, their efficacy remains hampered by resilience, robustness, and adaptability challenges across varied input scenarios. When using models that utilize multiple sensors, giving equal importance to each sensor can lead to errors because some activities may appear similar. To address this issue, researchers propose integrating attention mechanisms, which help prioritize important information from the sensors and reduce the impact of over lapping activity patterns. These challenges limit their practical implementation in wearable systems. To address these limitations, this study introduces an innovative attention-based ensemble model for fall detection; by integrating a convolutional neural network with channel attention and a bidirectional long short-term memory with temporal attention, the model prioritizes relevant information within time series data. The channel attention module uncovers interrelationships between variables. Meanwhile, the temporal attention module captures associations within the sensor data’s temporal dimension, allowing the model to focus on critical features and enhance performance. The experimental findings reveal impressive classification accuracies of 97.93% and 98.99% on the KFall and SisFall datasets, respectively.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2025.2450553Human fall detection systemattention mechanismdeep learningneural network ensemble
spellingShingle Sarita Sahni
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A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
Automatika
Human fall detection system
attention mechanism
deep learning
neural network ensemble
title A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
title_full A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
title_fullStr A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
title_full_unstemmed A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
title_short A novel ensemble model for fall detection: leveraging CNN and BiLSTM with channel and temporal attention
title_sort novel ensemble model for fall detection leveraging cnn and bilstm with channel and temporal attention
topic Human fall detection system
attention mechanism
deep learning
neural network ensemble
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00051144.2025.2450553
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