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New paper on Contactless Heart Rate Monitoring Using a Webcam

Our paper:

H. Monkaresi, R. A. Calvo, H. Yan, (To appear) “A Machine Learning Approach to Improve Contactless Heart Rate Monitoring Using a Webcam”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI)

has been accepted for publication. You can read the complete PrePublication PDF

image_13_ttitb_hamed_bicUnobtrusive, contactless recordings of physiological signals is very important for many health and human-computer interaction applications. Most current systems require sensors which intrusively touch the user’s skin. Recent advances in contact-free physiological signals open the door to many new types of applications. This technology promises to measure heart rate (HR) and respiration using video only.

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