Life Signs and Self-Harming Human Gestures, Actions and Behaviors Monitoring with Combined Physiological and Physical Indicators

Suicide is one of the most important causes of deaths in the prison environment, both in Canada and internationally. Rates of attempts of suicide and self-harm have been on the rise in recent years. To address this problem, there is a real and immediate need for an automated, private, and effective monitoring system that can detect attempts of suicide and self-harm in real-time. This project aims to develop monitoring solutions by studying common behavioral patterns and assessing vital signs changes with multi-modal sensing technologies and state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms to detect gestures, actions or behaviors that can be classified as posing a threat to a prisoner’s health and safety. Innovative, reliable and trusted solutions are designed for triggering alarms when the conditions are met in order to assist prison environment’s personnel while ensuring the respect of prisoners’ privacy and confidentiality.

Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Payeur

Student:

Partner:

Spectronix Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program: