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Non-contact heart rate measurement method based on Eulerian video magnification
SU Peiquan, XU Liang, LIANG Yongjian
Journal of Computer Applications    2018, 38 (3): 916-922.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017071808
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Aiming at problems of inconvenient operations, large noise interference of same frequency band in heart rate, and great influence by environmental temperature in existing non-contact measurement of heart rate, a non-contact measurement method of heart rate based on Eulerian video magnification technology was proposed. Firstly, a tiny beating of radial artery of wrist was magnified by Eulerian video magnification technology. Secondly, a statistics of luminance variance for pixels in an enlarged video frame was performed in time domain. Meanwhile, skin area in YCrCb color space was segmented. Thirdly, the pulsing region of radial artery in a video was extracted by luminance variance statistics and skin segmentation incorporating with image morphological processing. Finally, the non-contact measurement of heart rate was implemented by time-frequency analysis through Fourier transform of luminance signal of radial artery extracted in time domain. The experimental results show that Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) is reduced by 50.5% and 32.6%, respectively compared to Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and pulse alternating current signal analysis; Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) is 12% lower than wavelet filtering method. In this paper, the proposed approach for non-contact measurement of heart rate has a good consistency with pulse oximeter measurement, which is satisfied to pharmaceutical industry standards. It also can be used in daily family health care and telemedicine to monitor heart rate.
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