UAE KUSTAR-KAIST International Collaboration

2012-2013: Intelligent Surveillance System for Elderly Healthcare
2014-2015: Sensor Fusion-Based Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Healthcare Surveillance System
2015-2016: Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Multi-Sensor Healthcare Surveillance System

This multi-year project was sponsored by the KUSTAR-KAIST Institute as an international collaboration with Dr. Youssef Iraqi at the Dept. of Computer Engineering (Sharjah Campus), Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), UAE. The project aims to develop a distributed, intelligent multi-sensor surveillance system for monitoring and caring elderly people in a hospital or in a sliver-care town. From the technical standpoint, we investigate techniques to extend the conventional video surveillance system using audio and localization sensors to fuse the information gained by multiple sources in order to improve the overall performance. From the application standpoint, we aim to apply the surveillance system for caring elderly people who require continuous monitoring (e.g., those with dementia). In the process, we use data mining, machine learning, and other artificial intelligence techniques to understand and reason about human behavioral patterns for early detection of emergency situations.