Cutup and Detect: Human Fall Detection on Cutup Untrimmed Videos Using a Large Foundational Video Understanding Model

Abstract

This work explores the performance of a large video understanding foundation model on the downstream task of human fall detection on untrimmed video and leverages a pretrained vision transformer for multi-class action detection, with classes: "Fall", "Lying" and "Other/Activities of daily living (ADL)". A method for temporal action localization that relies on a simple cutup of untrimmed videos is demonstrated. The methodology includes a preprocessing pipeline that converts datasets with timestamp action annotations into labeled datasets of short action clips. Simple and effective clip-sampling strategies are introduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been empirically evaluated on the publicly available High-Quality Fall Simulation Dataset (HQFSD). The experimental results validate the performance of the proposed pipeline. The results are promising for real-time application, and the falls are detected on video level with a state-of-the-art 0.96 F1 score on the HQFSD dataset under the given experimental settings. The source code will be made available on GitHub.