The ability of sensing breathing is becoming an increasingly important function for technology that aims at supporting both psychological and physical wellbeing. We demonstrate ThermSense, a new breathing sensing platform based on smartphone technology and low-cost thermal camera, which allows a user to measure his/her breathing pattern in a contact-free manner. With the designed key functions of Thermal Voxel Integration-based breathing estimation and respiration variability spectrogram (RVS, bi-dimensional representation of breathing dynamics), the developed platform provides scalability and flexibility for gathering respiratory physiological measurements ubiquitously. The functionality could be used for a variety of applications from stress monitoring to respiration training.
@article{arxiv.1710.05044,
title = {ThermSense: Smartphone-based Breathing Sensing Platform using Noncontact Low-Cost Thermal Camera},
author = {Youngjun Cho and Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze and Simon J. Julier and Nicolai Marquardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05044},
year = {2018}
}
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