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Presentation 2023-05-19 16:45
Non-contact Heart Rate Estimation based on Thermal Radiation from the Human Body using Far-infrared Camera
Hikaru Umezawa, Kousuke Kurihara, Yoshihiro Maeda (TUS), Daisuke Sugimura (Tsuda Univ.), Norishige Fukushima (Nitech), Takayuki Hamamoto (TUS)
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(in English) Heart rate is a type of biometric information that is useful in health management and emotion estimation. Traditionally, contact-type measurement device have been used to measure heart rate, but depending on the subject's skin condition, it may be difficult to bring the measurement device into contact with the subject. Therefore, a non-contact heart rate measurement method is desired. In this paper, we propose a heart rate estimation method using principal component analysis (PCA) based on time series analysis of far-infrared video images. Based on the hypothesis that temperature changes caused by pulse-derived blood volume fluctuations are conducted to the surrounding skin tissue and also radiate to the surrounding space, PCA is performed on far-infrared video images taken of the subject and his/her surroundings. Frequency analysis is performed on the obtained principal components to estimate the heart rate. This method enables highly accurate heart rate estimation without detecting the position of blood vessels. The estimation accuracy of this method was the most accurate compared to the comparison method.
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(in English) Far-infrared imaging / Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) / Principal Component Analysis (PCA) / / / / /  
Reference Info. ITE Tech. Rep., vol. 47, no. 15, IST2023-18, pp. 30-33, May 2023.
Paper # IST2023-18 
Date of Issue 2023-05-11 (IST, ME) 
ISSN Online edition: ISSN 2424-1970
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Committee IEICE-BioX IEICE-SIP IEICE-IE IST ME  
Conference Date 2023-05-18 - 2023-05-19 
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Place (in English) Sansui Hall, Mie University 
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Conference Code 2023-05-BioX-SIP-IE-IST-ME 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Non-contact Heart Rate Estimation based on Thermal Radiation from the Human Body using Far-infrared Camera 
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Keyword(1) Far-infrared imaging  
Keyword(2) Blood Volume Pulse (BVP)  
Keyword(3) Principal Component Analysis (PCA)  
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1st Author's Name Hikaru Umezawa  
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science (TUS)
2nd Author's Name Kousuke Kurihara  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science (TUS)
3rd Author's Name Yoshihiro Maeda  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science (TUS)
4th Author's Name Daisuke Sugimura  
4th Author's Affiliation Tsuda University (Tsuda Univ.)
5th Author's Name Norishige Fukushima  
5th Author's Affiliation Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nitech)
6th Author's Name Takayuki Hamamoto  
6th Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science (TUS)
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Date Time 2023-05-19 16:45:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # IST2023-18, ME2023-61 
Volume (vol) vol.47 
Number (no) no.15 
Page pp.30-33 
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Date of Issue 2023-05-11 (IST, ME) 


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