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One of the deadliest pandemics is now happening in the current world due to COVID-19. This contagious virus is spreading like wildfire around the whole world. To minimize the spreading of this virus, World Health Organization (WHO) has made…

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Imbalanced nutrition is a global health issue with significant downstream effects. Current methods of assessing nutrient levels face several limitations, with accessibility being a major concern. In this paper, we take a step towards…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Balch , Maria A. Cardei , Afsaneh Doryab

This work presents an automated touchless fingerprint recognition system for smartphones. We provide a comprehensive description of the entire recognition pipeline and discuss important requirements for a fully automated capturing system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jannis Priesnitz , Rolf Huesmann , Christian Rathgeb , Nicolas Buchmann , Christoph Busch

Non-contact video-based physiological measurement has many applications in health care and human-computer interaction. Practical applications require measurements to be accurate even in the presence of large head rotations. We propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Weixuan Chen , Daniel McDuff

The rampant coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought global crisis with its deadly spread to more than 180 countries, and about 3,519,901 confirmed cases along with 247,630 deaths globally as on May 4, 2020. The absence of any active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Narinder Singh Punn , Sanjay Kumar Sonbhadra , Sonali Agarwal , Gaurav Rai

Deviations in respiratory rate often precede abnormalities in other vital signs. However, continuously monitoring respiratory rates outside clinical settings remains challenging due to the obtrusive nature and sensitivity to body motions in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Sebastian Reidy , Manuel Meier , Christian Holz

The ability to monitor respiratory rate is extremely important for medical treatment, healthcare and fitness sectors. In many situations, mobile methods, which allow users to undertake every day activities, are required. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Youngjun Cho , Simon J. Julier , Nicolai Marquardt , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

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

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type-2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused a global pandemic and immensely affected the global economy. Accurate, cost-effective, and quick tests have proven substantial in identifying infected people and…

In this paper, we propose a system that enables photoplethysmogram (PPG)-based authentication by using a smartphone camera. PPG signals are obtained by recording a video from the camera as users are resting their finger on top of the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Giulio Lovisotto , Henry Turner , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

As a part of this project, we have developed an IoT-based instrument utilizing the NODE MCU-ESP8266 module, MQ135 gas sensor, and DHT-11 sensor for measuring CO$_2$ levels in parts per million (ppm), temperature, and humidity. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Abhiroop Sarkar , Debayan Ghosh , Kinshuk Ganguly , Snehal Ghosh , Subhajit Saha

Significance: Smartphones hold great potential in point-of-care settings due to their accessibility and computational capabilities. This is critical as clinicians increasingly seek to quantify skin-tone, a characteristic which has been…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Joshua A. Burrow , Rutendo Jakachira , Gannon Lemaster , Kimani C. Toussaint

With the ongoing heart problems of the population worldwide, the medical requirements of the people are expected to increase. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the proven to capture the heart response signal to assess the electrical and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Ayan Chatterjee , Sundar Gopalakrishnan , Martin Gerdes , Santiago Martinez , Nibedita Pahari , Pankaj Khatiwada

COVID-19 has caused lasting damage to almost every domain in public health, society, and economy. To monitor the pandemic trend, existing studies rely on the aggregation of traditional statistical models and epidemic spread theory. In other…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-yu Jiang , Xiusi Chen , Wei Wang

Subjective well-being is a cornerstone of individual and societal health, yet its scientific measurement has traditionally relied on self-report methods prone to recall bias and high participant burden. This has left a gap in our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ming-Zher Poh , Shun Liao , Marco Andreetto , Daniel McDuff , Jonathan Wang , Paolo Di Achille , Jiang Wu , Yun Liu , Lawrence Cai , Eric Teasley , Mark Malhotra , Anupam Pathak , Shwetak Patel

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is intrinsically sensitive to blood oxygen saturation (sO2) in vivo. However, making accurate sO2 measurements without knowledge of tissue- and instrumentation-related correction factors is extremely…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Marcel Gehrung , Sarah Bohndiek , Joanna Brunker

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has appeared as the greatest challenge due to its continuous structural evolution as well as the absence of proper antidotes for this particular virus. The virus mainly spreads and replicates itself among mass…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Md. Tanvir Rahman , Risala T. Khan , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Md. Sifat Ar Salan

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal-based blood pressure (BP) estimation is a promising candidate for modern BP measurements, as PPG signals can be easily obtained from wearable devices in a non-invasive manner, allowing quick BP measurement.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-01 Hyeongju Kim , Woo Hyun Kang , Hyeonseung Lee , Nam Soo Kim

The global transition towards cleaner and more sustainable energy production is a major challenge. We present an innovative solution by utilizing smartphone light sensors to measure direct normal solar irradiance, the primary component of…

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…

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