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The first IET International Conference on Technologies for Active and Assisted Living organised by the Vision & Imaging Network and led by Dr Francisco Florez Revuelta brought together industry and academic researchers and experts from across Europe to present and discuss advances and ethics in ambient and assisted living technologies. 


The conference included two keynotes, 8 technical presentations and 8 posters that are all available online free of charge to read and watch.


Malcolm Fisk, Du Montford University, opened the conference with an insightful keynote: Protection from abuse? Resolving the privacy dilemma with cameras and other surveillance technology discussing how technology can be used to protect individuals - and staff - from abuse and allegations in care settings.


There was a strong theme through the conference on developing technology to enable older people to live independently and safely in their own home for as long as possible and Prof. Bart Vanrumste’s keynote discussed his work at KU Leuven on Video based fall risk estimation and fall detection. Vanrumste’s student group obtained footage of real world falls and used this to generate 8.5 hours of re-enacted simulated data which will be made publically available in 2016 and this footage was used in their studies. They found that their results were similar to existing findings in the literature and that false-positives were a big issue.


After the conference we caught up with Malcolm Fisk and asked him, ‘Should we use cameras in care centres to help protect people from abuse?’ – WATCH his response here!  


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