Contactless Human Monitoring: Challenges and Future Direction

Abstract

Human activity recognition and analysis have a great number of important applications in numerous fields including computer vision, ubiquitous computing, human-computer interactions, healthcare, robotics, and surveillance. Video-based and sensor-based human activity recognition have progressed tremendously in the last two decades. In this chapter, we highlight the major challenges and future research directions in contactless human activity monitoring. More specifically, we will present sensor-level challenges, feature-level challenges, methodological issues, implementation-level aspects, and various application-level challenges.