Non-contact heart rate measurements based on skin detection

Ting Zhao; Zuofeng Zhou; Pengyong Chen; Jianzhong Cao; Hongtao Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2502811

9 August 2018 Non-contact heart rate measurements based on skin detection

Ting Zhao, Zuofeng Zhou, Pengyong Chen, Jianzhong Cao, Hongtao Yang

Proceedings Volume 10806, Tenth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2018); 1080655 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2502811
Event: Tenth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2018), 2018, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Non-contact measurements of the cardiac pulse of humanity is always a challenging problem. Almost all the existing research work concentrates on heart rate measurements based on video recordings of the human face, in which the subject is restricted rigidly. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on skin detection method. The skin regions in color video recordings are generalized to anywhere of the human body, not limited to human face. The skin detector and a chrominance-based technique are firstly used to detect the photo-plethysmo-graphy (PPG) signal. Then, we use an empirical parameter selection method to get the final heart rate estimation. The experiment results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Ting Zhao, Zuofeng Zhou, Pengyong Chen, Jianzhong Cao, and Hongtao Yang "Non-contact heart rate measurements based on skin detection", Proc. SPIE 10806, Tenth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2018), 1080655 (9 August 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2502811

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