Heart rate monitoring using Kinect and color amplification

Author

Smilkstein, Tina ; Buenrostro, Miguel ; Kenyon, Alan ; Lienemann, Matthew ; Larson, Grace

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. at California Polytech. State Univ., San Luis, AZ, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The color part of a color and motion amplification algorithm developed by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSail) research group [1] is converted to real-time and used to visualize and monitor heart rate for drivers in order to sense when a driver becomes sleepy. A Kinect camera mounted on the dashboard is used to gather video data from which the driver´s heart rate is extracted in real time. This technology can be used to unobtrusively monitor heart rate and breathing of infants, sleep apnea patients or other individuals where worn devices are not optimal.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; cameras; cardiology; image colour analysis; image motion analysis; medical disorders; medical image processing; paediatrics; patient monitoring; sleep; video signal processing; CSail; Kinect camera; MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research group; color amplification; dashboard; driver heart rate; drivers; heart rate monitoring; infant breathing; motion amplification algorithm; real-time; sleep apnea patients; video data; Conferences; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Healthcare Innovation Conference (HIC), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HIC.2014.7038874

Filename

7038874