Real-time fall detection based on vision for low-power edge platforms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12909v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:43:41 GMT
• Title: Real-time fall detection based on vision for low-power edge platforms
• Abstract summary: Falling detection is vital for elderly care and intelligent surveillance.<n> prevailing vision-based approaches predominantly frame it as static pose classification or discrete temporal pattern matching.<n>This paper proposes a physics-informed falling detection framework that recasts falling as a stability-loss event.
• Score: 7.916664096508434
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Falling detection is vital for elderly care and intelligent surveillance; however, prevailing vision-based approaches predominantly frame it as static pose classification or discrete temporal pattern matching, fundamentally overlooking the instability dynamics of the human support system. This paper proposes a physics-informed falling detection framework that recasts falling as a stability-loss event in a coupled dynamical system. We introduce a novel dual-LTC architecture comprising a Center-of-Mass (CoM) subsystem and a Base-of-Support (BoS) subsystem, both instantiated as Liquid Time-Constant (LTC) neural networks to continuously model inertial trajectory evolution and ground-contact adjustment through adaptive time constants, Physical interpretability of falling motion. A learnable coupling module emulates physical interaction between the two subsystems, while a Stability Manifold classifier operates in the joint latent space to detect boundary crossing via Lyapunov-inspired stability metrics. Complementary counterfactual trajectory projection and Time-to-Collision (TTC) estimation further enable irreversibility assessment and early warning. The architecture is designed to support a three-state prediction paradigm (Normal, Falling, Fallen); in this preliminary study, we validate the core stability discrimination capability on a two-class dataset (Normal vs. Falling), leaving the full three-state temporal transition to future work. Unlike conventional CNN--RNN pipelines, the proposed formulation encodes continuous-time mechanical inertia, yielding a sub-50K-parameter network capable of real-time inference on resource-constrained edge devices. Extensive experiments demonstrate competitive accuracy with superior physical interpretability, validating its efficacy for low-compute visual fall detection.

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