Nursing home monitoring system tracks residents in a complex facility, researchers announce

Nursing home operators may soon be able to closely track resident  movements using relatively few cameras, according to researchers at  Carnegie Mellon University.

The team has taken multi-camera, multi-object tracking to the next  level by creating a monitoring system that works outside a controlled  lab environment.  The team tested their system in a nursing home, where
camera views were “compromised by long hallways, doorways, people mingling in the hallways

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