costream: A Streaming Evaluation Protocol for Wearable Fall Detection
Timilehin B. Aderinola, Ilaria D'Ascanio, Luca Palmerini, Lorenzo Chiari, Jochen Klenk, Clemens Becker, Brian Caulfield, Georgiana Ifrim
原文摘要
Wearable fall detectors are commonly evaluated on presegmented windows, where a fall window is extracted at an annotated impact and non-fall windows are sampled from fall-free signal. However, a deployed detector processes a continuous sensor stream in which the location of a fall is unknown. We specify a streaming evaluation protocol in which a detector traverses an unsegmented recording, aggregates window-level scores into a temporal confidence map, and emits timestamped events that are evaluated against the annotated fall. Holding the dataset, participant-wise splits, window construction and fitted models fixed, we compare presegmented and streaming evaluation on clinically verified real-world falls. The two protocols identify the same best-performing method overall, but select different methods in 6 of 20 model-window configurations, with the divergence associated with differences in the temporal clustering of false alarms. Streaming evaluation also exposes deployment-relevant quantities, including false alarm rate over elapsed monitoring time, detection delay, and the effect of the decision threshold, that are not captured by per-window evaluation. These results show that evaluation protocol can materially affect conclusions about wearable fall detectors and should be considered when assessing their suitability for continuous monitoring.
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