Can object detection be trained on its own to detect falls in the elderly?

[bbhxwl]

Can YOLO do behavior detection? Can only detect objects

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[glenn-jocher]

@bbhxwl yOLO models can detect persons as objects and estimate their pose/keypoints using our pose models (https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose). For fall detection specifically, you'd need to analyze pose sequences over time using temporal analysis techniques on top of object/pose detection outputs. This typically requires additional logic beyond standard object detection.