Abstract
Due to the demographic change, the number of older people will grow steadily within the next decades [1]. Technical systems, methods and algorithms developed in the context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aim to enable these people to live self-determined and safe in their own homes as long as possible. To ensure this, these homes may have to be equipped with e.g., a health monitoring system, special sensors or devices for gathering and evaluating individual information. In this paper, an acoustic monitoring system for evaluation of acoustic cues is presented and tested exemplarily on four acoustic events (cough, knock, clap and phone bell). The acoustic monitoring includes several consecutive signal processing steps: the audio signal picked up by a microphone is transformed in a psycho-physiologically weighted domain using a gammatone filterbank, resulting in a so-called cochleogram [2]. From this cochleogram, background noise is estimated and eliminated. Further signal processing determines partitions of the cochleogram which are considered to form acoustic events. Each of these events is then evaluated with a classification algorithm. In this classification step, class membership is determined by comparing the event under inspection to representatives which have been calculated during a training phase utilizing a self-organizing map [3]. It is shown that a true positive rate from over 79% can be achieved where the false positive rate is smaller than 4% except for the event knocking.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
European Commision Staff. Working Document. Europes Demografic, Future: Facts and Figures. Commission of the European Communities (May 2007)
van Hengel, P.W.J., Andringa, T.C.: Verbal aggression detection in complex social environments. In: AVSS 2007: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (2007)
Kohonen, T.: Self-Organizing Maps, 3rd edn. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
van Hengel, P.W.J., Anemüller, J.: Audio Event Detection for In-Home Care. In: Int. Conf. on Acoustics (NAG/DAGA) (2009)
Grauel, J., Spellberger, A.: Akzeptanz neuer Wohntechniken für ein selbständiges Leben im Alter – Erklärung anhand soziostruktureller Merkmale. Technikkompetenz und Technikeinstellung, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform Jg 53 H 2, 191–215 (2007)
Schneekloth, U., Wahl, H.-W.: Selbständigkeit und Hilfsbedarf bei älteren Menschen in Privathauhalten, Pflegearrangements, Demenz, Versorgungsangebote. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart (2008)
Alexandersson, J., Zimmermann, G., Bund, J.: User Interfaces for AAL: How Can I Satisfy All Users? In: Proc. Ambient Assisted Living - AAL, Berlin, Germany. Deutscher Kongress, vol. 2, pp. 5–9 (2009)
Helal, S., Giraldo, C., Kaddoura, Y., Lee, C., El Zabadani, H., Mann, W.: Smart Phone Based Cognitive Assistant. In: Proceeding of The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Pervasive Healthcare Applications, Seattle, p. 11 (2003)
Project web page Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environment for Ageing, http://www.altersgerechte-lebenswelten.de
Moritz, N., Goetze, S., Appell, J.-E.: Ambient Voice Control for a Personal Activity and Household Assistant. In: Proc. 4th German AAL-Congress, Berlin, Germany (January 2011)
Meis, M., Appell, J.-E., Hohmann, V., Son, N., Frowein, H., Öster, A.M., Hein, A.: Tele-monitoring and Assistant System for People with Hearing Deficiencies: First Results from a User Requirement Study. In: Proceedings of European Conference on eHealth (ECEH), pp. 163–175 (2007)
Hohmann, V.: Frequency Analysis and Synthesis using a Gammatone Filterbank. Acta Acustica United with Acustica 88, 433–442 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Schroeder, J., Wabnik, S., van Hengel, P.W.J., Goetze, S. (2011). Detection and Classification of Acoustic Events for In-Home Care. In: Wichert, R., Eberhardt, B. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18167-2_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18167-2_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-18166-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-18167-2
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)