Activity, Behavior, and Healthcare Computing

Relates to the fields of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition. As well as a series of methodologies, the book includes original methods, exploration of new applications, excellent survey papers, presentations on relevant datasets, challenging applications, ideas and future scopes with guidelines. Featuring contributions from top experts and top research groups globally related to this domain, the book covers action recognition, action understanding, gait analysis, gesture recognition, behavior analysis, emotion and affective computing, healthcare, dementia, nursing, Parkinson’s disease, and related areas. It addresses various challenges and aspects of human activity recognition – both in sensor-based and vision-based domains. This is a unique edited book covering both domains in the field of activity and behavior.