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Monitoring the respiratory rate is crucial for helping us identify respiratory disorders. Devices for conventional respiratory monitoring are inconvenient and scarcely available. Recent research has demonstrated the ability of non-contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Haimiao Mo , Shuai Ding , Shanlin Yang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Xi Zheng

Breathing monitoring is crucial in healthcare for early detection of health issues, but traditional methods face challenges like invasiveness, privacy concerns, and limited applicability in daily settings. This paper introduces light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Omar Rinchi , Ahmad Alsharoa , Denise A. Baker

Biosensors and wearable sensor systems with transmitting capabilities are currently developed and used for the monitoring of health data, exercise activities, and other performance data. Unlike conventional approaches, these devices enable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Since late 2019, the global spread of COVID-19 has affected people's daily life. Temperature is an early and common symptom of Covid. Therefore, a convenient and remote temperature detection method is needed. In this paper, a non-contact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Kamrul H Foysal , Bipasha Kundu , Jo Woon Chong

With the increasing popularity of telehealth, it becomes critical to ensure that basic physiological signals can be monitored accurately at home, with minimal patient overhead. In this paper, we propose a contactless approach for monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Hao He , Yuan Yuan , Ying-Cong Chen , Peng Cao , Dina Katabi

In the midst of rising positive cases of COVID-19, the hospitals face a newfound difficulty to prioritize on their patients and accommodate them. Moreover, crowding of patients at hospitals pose a threat to the healthcare workers and other…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jithin Sunny , Joel Jogy , Rohan Rout , Rakshit Naidu

This paper presents an unobtrusive solution that can automatically identify deep breath when a person is walking past the global depth camera. Existing non-contact breath assessments achieve satisfactory results under restricted conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yunlu Wang , Cheng Yang , Menghan Hu , Jian Zhang , Qingli Li , Guangtao Zhai , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Quality patient-provider communication is critical to improve clinical care and patient outcomes. While progress has been made with communication skills training for clinicians, significant gaps exist in how to best monitor, measure, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiyuan Wang , Nusayer Hassan , Virginia LeBaron , Tabor E. Flickinger , David Ling , James Edwards , Congyu Wu , Mehdi Boukhechba , Laura E. Barnes

Smartphone-based measurement platforms can collect data on human sensory function in an accessible manner. We developed a smartphone app that measures vibration perception thresholds by commanding vibrations with varying amplitudes and…

Breath with nose sound features has been shown as a potential biometric in personal identification and verification. In this paper, we show that information that comes from other modalities captured by motion sensors on the chest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Manh-Ha Bui , Viet-Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

We introduce a technique based on infrared thermal emission, termed depth thermography, that can remotely measure the temperature distribution beneath the surface of certain objects. Depth thermography utilizes the thermal-emission spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yuzhe Xiao , Chenghao Wan , Alireza Shahsafi , Jad Salman , Mikhail A. Kats

Visible-light cameras can capture subtle physiological biomarkers without physical contact with the subject. We present the Multi-Site Physiological Monitoring (MSPM) dataset, which is the first dataset collected to support the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

This study proposes a method for simulating signals received by frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar during respiratory monitoring, using human body geometry and displacement data acquired via a depth camera. Unlike previous studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Kimitaka Sumi , Takuya Sakamoto

The integration of compressive sensing with real-time embedded systems opens new possibilities for efficient, low-power biomedical signal acquisition. This paper presents a custom hardware platform based on the RP2350 micro-controller,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Rens Baeyens , Dennis Laurijssen , Jan Steckel , Walter Daems

Thermal imaging-based physiological and affective computing is an emerging research area enabling technologies to monitor our bodily functions and understand psychological and affective needs in a contactless manner. However, up to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Youngjun Cho , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Received signal strength based respiration rate monitoring is emerging as an alternative non-contact technology. These systems make use of the radio measurements of short-range commodity wireless devices, which vary due to the inhalation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Roland Hostettler , Riku Jäntti , Neal Patwari , Simo Särkkä

Numerous real-world applications have been driven by the recent algorithmic advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Healthcare is no exception and AI technologies have great potential to revolutionize the industry. Non-contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xin Liu , Shwetak Patel , Daniel McDuff

Close to half of the world population have smartphones, while a typical flagship smartphone today has been integrated with more than 20 smart components and sensors, making a smartphone a highly integrated platform that can potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Jinlong Zhu , Ni Zhao , Renjie Zhou

Enhancing the energy efficiency of buildings significantly relies on monitoring indoor ambient temperature. The potential limitations of conventional temperature measurement techniques, together with the omnipresence of smartphones, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Dayin Chen , Xiaodan Shi , Haoran Zhang , Xuan Song , Dongxiao Zhang , Yuntian Chen , Jinyue Yan

The growing demand for natural interactions with technology underscores the importance of achieving realistic touch sensations in digital environments. Realizing this goal highly depends on comprehensive databases of finger-surface…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jagan K. Balasubramanian , Bence L. Kodak , Yasemin Vardar