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We present an IoT-based intelligent bed sensor system that collects and analyses respiration-associated signals for unobtrusive monitoring in the home, hospitals and care units. A contactless device is used, which contains four load sensors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Qingju Liu , Mark Kenny , Ramin Nilforooshan , Payam Barnaghi

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), a family of techniques for monitoring blood volume changes, may be especially useful for widespread contactless health monitoring using face video from consumer-grade visible-light cameras. The COVID-19…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

Thispaper presents the design and realization of a context-aware wireless health monitoring system for recording the heartbeat (HR) and respiration (RR) rate based on an indirect measurement approach. The system consists of a contact-less…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Amir Javadpour , HamidrezaMemarzadeh-Tehran

Objective: Non-contact physiological measurement is a growing research area that allows capturing vital signs such as heart rate (HR) and breathing rate (BR) comfortably and unobtrusively with remote devices. However, most of the approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Weixuan Chen , Javier Hernandez , Rosalind W. Picard

This study proposes a method for radar-based identification of individuals using a combination of their respiratory and heartbeat features. In the proposed method, the target individual's respiratory features are extracted using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Haruto Kobayashi , Yuji Tanaka , Takuya Sakamoto

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless vital sign monitoring using standard RGB cameras. However, existing methods rely on fixed parameters optimized for particular lighting conditions and camera setups, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Cecilia G. Morales , Fanurs Chi En Teh , Kai Li , Pushpak Agrawal , Artur Dubrawski

Recent studies demonstrated that the average heart rate (HR) can be measured from facial videos based on non-contact remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). However for many medical applications (e.g., atrial fibrillation (AF) detection)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Respiratory rate (RR) is a vital sign with significant diagnostic value. Existing RR monitors often suffer from baseline drift over time, breaths can be occluded by limb or body movements, and many systems struggle to resolve shallow or…

Respiratory rate (RR) monitoring is integral to understanding physical and mental health and tracking fitness. Existing studies have demonstrated the feasibility of RR monitoring under specific user conditions (e.g., while remaining still,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yang Liu , Kayla-Jade Butkow , Jake Stuchbury-Wass , Adam Pullin , Dong Ma , Cecilia Mascolo

Camera-based vital signs monitoring in recent years has attracted more and more researchers and the results are promising. However, a few research works focus on heart rate extraction under extremely low illumination environments. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Lin Xi , Xingming Wu , Weihai Chen , Jianhua Wang , Changchen Zhao

Heart rate (HR) is an essential clinical measure for the assessment of cardiorespiratory instability. Since communities of color are disproportionately affected by both COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease, there is a pressing need to deploy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Pradyumna Chari , Krish Kabra , Doruk Karinca , Soumyarup Lahiri , Diplav Srivastava , Kimaya Kulkarni , Tianyuan Chen , Maxime Cannesson , Laleh Jalilian , Achuta Kadambi

Time event cameras are a novel technology for recording scene information at extremely low latency and with low power consumption. Event cameras output a stream of events that encapsulate pixel-level light intensity changes within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mohamed Moustafa , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

With the increase in health consciousness, noninvasive body monitoring has aroused interest among researchers. As one of the most important pieces of physiological information, researchers have remotely estimated the heart rate (HR) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ying Qiu , Yang Liu , Juan Arteaga-Falconi , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

In this paper we develop a robust for heart rate (HR) estimation method using face video for challenging scenarios with high variability sources such as head movement, illumination changes, vibration, blur, etc. Our method employs a quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Shigenori Nagae , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales

Recent research has highlighted the detection of human respiration rate using commodity WiFi devices. Nevertheless, these devices encounter challenges in accurately discerning human respiration amidst the prevailing human motion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Kehan Wu , Renqi Chen , Haiyu Wang , Chenqing Ji , Jiayuan Zhu , Guang Wu

Patient motion is well-known for degrading image quality during medical imaging. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) is susceptible to motion due to its usually long scan times. In hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Lynn Johann Frohwein , Florian Büther , Klaus Peter Schäfers

Measuring the respiratory signal from a video based on body motion has been proposed and recently matured in products for video health monitoring. The core algorithm for this measurement is the estimation of tiny chest/abdominal motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Wenjin Wang , Albertus C. den Brinker

Recent advancements in data-driven approaches for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) have significantly improved the accuracy of remote heart rate estimation. However, the performance of such approaches worsens considerably under video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joaquim Comas , Adria Ruiz , Federico Sukno

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the non-contact based detection of the respiration rate from video sequences. Common techniques either directly assess the movement of the chest due to breathing or are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Fabian Schrumpf , Christoph Moench , Gerold Bausch , Mirco Fuchs

Remote detection of the cardiac pulse has a number of applications in sports and medicine, and can be used to determine the physiological state of the subject. Previous approaches to estimate Heart Rate from video require the subject to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Arvind Subramaniam , Rajitha K