scholarly journals Improved Heart-Rate Measurement from Mobile Face Videos

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Lomaliza ◽  
Hanhoon Park
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Motion Tracking ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Head Motion ◽  
Computation Method ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring ◽  
Desktop Computer ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement

Newtonian reaction to blood influx into the head at each heartbeat causes subtle head motion at the same frequency as the heartbeats. Thus, this head motion can be used to estimate the heart rate. Several studies have shown that heart rates can be measured accurately by tracking head motion using a desktop computer with a static camera. However, implementation of vision-based head motion tracking on smartphones demonstrated limited accuracy due to the hand-shaking problem caused by the non-static camera. The hand-shaking problem could not be handled effectively with only the frontal camera images. It also required a more accurate method to measure the periodicity of noisy signals. Therefore, this study proposes an improved head-motion-based heart-rate monitoring system using smartphones. To address the hand-shaking problem, the proposed system leverages the front and rear cameras available in most smartphones and dedicates each camera to tracking facial features that correspond to head motion and background features that correspond to hand-shaking. Then, the locations of facial features are adjusted using the average point of the background features. In addition, a correlation-based signal periodicity computation method is proposed to accurately separate the true heart-rate-related component from the head motion signal. The proposed system demonstrates improved accuracy (i.e., lower mean errors in heart-rate measurement) compared to conventional head-motion-based systems, and the accuracy is sufficient for daily heart-rate monitoring.

scholarly journals Students Activity Recognition by Heart Rate Monitoring in Classroom using K-Means Classification

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Hadi Helmi Md Zuraini ◽  
Waidah Ismail ◽  
Rimuljo Hendradi ◽  
Army Justitia
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Exercise Heart Rate ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Teaching Session ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring ◽  
Student Reaction ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement

Background: Heartbeat playing the main roles in our life. With the heartbeat, the anxiety level can be known. Most of the heartbeat is used in the exercise. Heart rate measurement is unique and uncontrollable by any human being.Objective: This research aims to learn student’s actions by monitoring the heart rate. In this paper, we are measuring the student reaction and action in classroom can give impact on teacher’s way of delivery when in the teaching session. In monitoring, student’s behavior may give feedback whether the teaching session have positive or negative outcome.Methods: The method we use is K-Means algorithm. Firstly, we need to know the student’s normal heartbeat as benchmark. We used Hexiware for collecting data from students’ hear beat. We perform the classification where K is benchmark students’ heartbeat. K-Means algorithm performs classification of the heart rate measurement of students.Results: We did the testing for five students in different subjects. It shows that all students have anxiety during the testing and presentation. Its consistency because we tested 5 students with mixes activities in the classroom, where the student has quiz, presentation and only teaching.Conclusion: Heart rate during studying in the classroom can change the education world in improving the efficiency of knowledge transfer between student and teacher. This research may act as basic way in monitoring student behavior in the classroom. We have tested for 5 students. Three students have their anxiety in classroom during the exam, presentation, and question. Two students have normal rate during the seminar and lecturer. The drawback, Hexiware is capturing average of ten minutes and tested in different classes and students. In future, we need just measure one student for all the subjects and Hexiware need to configure in one minute. 

Enhanced Brady-Tachy Heart Automotive (BT-Heartomotive) Device for Heart Rate Monitoring during Driving

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7599-7606
Author(s):  
M. A. H. Mohd Adib ◽  
N. H. M. Hasni
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Good Accuracy ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
Heart Rate Level ◽  
Main Components

Driving with brady-tachy syndrome is one of the main causes of car accidents. In order to prevent drivers from brady-tachy driving, there is a strong demand for driver monitoring systems. Other than problems in driving attitudes and skills, road accidents are also caused by uncontrollable factors such as medical conditions and drowsiness. These factors can be avoided by having early detection. Therefore, the brady-tachy heart automotive so-called BT-Heartomotive device is developed. This BT-Heartomotive device can detect early signs of drowsiness and health problems by measuring the heart rate of the drivers during driving. The device also could use the data to send an alert to the passengers that they’re in precaution. The device shows a good accuracy in the detection of the heart rate level. The device comprised three main components; wristband, monitor and integrated mobile applications. Heart rate measurement can reveal a lot about the physical conditions of an individual. The BT-Heartomotive device is simple, easy to use and automated.

scholarly journals A Review of Deep Learning-Based Contactless Heart Rate Measurement Methods

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3719
Author(s):  
Aoxin Ni ◽  
Arian Azarang ◽  
Nasser Kehtarnavaz
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Mean Absolute Error ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Measurement Methods ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement

The interest in contactless or remote heart rate measurement has been steadily growing in healthcare and sports applications. Contactless methods involve the utilization of a video camera and image processing algorithms. Recently, deep learning methods have been used to improve the performance of conventional contactless methods for heart rate measurement. After providing a review of the related literature, a comparison of the deep learning methods whose codes are publicly available is conducted in this paper. The public domain UBFC dataset is used to compare the performance of these deep learning methods for heart rate measurement. The results obtained show that the deep learning method PhysNet generates the best heart rate measurement outcome among these methods, with a mean absolute error value of 2.57 beats per minute and a mean square error value of 7.56 beats per minute.

scholarly journals Heart Rate Measurement

2021 ◽  
Vol 1831 (1) ◽  
pp. 012020
Author(s):  
Parth Kansara ◽  
Ritwik Dhar ◽  
Riddhi Shah ◽  
Devansh Mehta ◽  
Purva Raut
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement

scholarly journals Noncontact Heart Rate Measurement Based on an Improved Convolutional Sparse Coding Method Using IR-UWB Radar

IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 158492-158502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Wang ◽  
Fugui Qi ◽  
Miao Liu ◽  
Fulai Liang ◽  
Huijun Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Sparse Coding ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Uwb Radar ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement ◽  
Coding Method

scholarly journals Distant Measurement of Plethysmographic Signal in Various Lighting Conditions Using Configurable Frame-Rate Camera

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaromir Przybyło ◽  
Eliasz Kańtoch ◽  
Mirosław Jabłoński ◽  
Piotr Augustyniak
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Frame Rate ◽  
Infrared Light ◽  
Fluorescent Light ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
Heart Rate Measurement

Abstract Videoplethysmography is currently recognized as a promising noninvasive heart rate measurement method advantageous for ubiquitous monitoring of humans in natural living conditions. Although the method is considered for application in several areas including telemedicine, sports and assisted living, its dependence on lighting conditions and camera performance is still not investigated enough. In this paper we report on research of various image acquisition aspects including the lighting spectrum, frame rate and compression. In the experimental part, we recorded five video sequences in various lighting conditions (fluorescent artificial light, dim daylight, infrared light, incandescent light bulb) using a programmable frame rate camera and a pulse oximeter as the reference. For a video sequence-based heart rate measurement we implemented a pulse detection algorithm based on the power spectral density, estimated using Welch’s technique. The results showed that lighting conditions and selected video camera settings including compression and the sampling frequency influence the heart rate detection accuracy. The average heart rate error also varies from 0.35 beats per minute (bpm) for fluorescent light to 6.6 bpm for dim daylight.

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