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Therefore, automatic fall detection is one of the most relevant problems in geriatrics. Bioradiolocation-based methods have already shown their efficiency in contactless fall detection. However, there is still a wide range of areas to improve the precision of fall recognition based on view-independent concepts. In particular, in this paper, we propose an approach based on a more complex multi-channel system (three or four bioradars) in combination with the wavelet transform and transfer learning. In the experiments, we have used several radar configurations for recording different movement types. Then, for the binary classification task, a pre-trained convolutional neural network AlexNet has been fine-tuned using scalograms. The proposed systems have shown a noticeable improvement in the fall recognition performance in comparison with the previously used two-bioradar system. The accuracy and Cohen\u2019s kappa of the two-bioradar system are 0.92 and 0.86 respectively, whereas the accuracy and Cohen\u2019s kappa of the four-bioradar system are 0.99 and 0.99 respectively. The three-bioradar system\u2019s performance turned out to be in between two of the aforementioned systems and its calculated accuracy and Cohen\u2019s kappa are 0.98 and 0.97 respectively. 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