Abstract
Camera-based remote pulse rate monitoring can be used during fitness exercise to optimize the effectiveness of a workout. However, such monitoring suffers from vigorous body motions and dynamic illumination changes due to exercise, which may lead to erroneous estimates. To better cope with this, we propose a quality metric, comprised of a front-end metric and a back-end metric, to indicate the monitoring conditions (e.g. luminance, skin property) and assess the reliability of pulse rate measurement (e.g. signal quality). The proposed quality metric has been thoroughly benchmarked on 78 videos recorded in a fitness setting. The experimental results show that (i) appropriate light source intensity variation and its angle variation in the front-end metric are critical indicators for pulse rate measurement accuracy, and (ii) the back-end metric can effectively indicate/reject unreliable estimates. The proposed method in this paper is the first quality metric for camera-based pulse rate monitoring, validated for the challenging use-case of fitness exercises.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings |
Place of Publication | Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 2430-2434 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Volume | 2016-August |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4673-9961-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-9962-3 |
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Publication status | Published - 3 Aug 2016 |
Event | 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2016) - Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ, United States Duration: 25 Sept 2016 → 28 Sept 2016 Conference number: 23 http://2016.ieeeicip.org/ |
Conference
Conference | 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2016) |
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Abbreviated title | ICIP 2016 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Phoenix, AZ |
Period | 25/09/16 → 28/09/16 |
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Keywords
- Biomedical monitoring
- Fitness exercise
- Pulse rate
- Quality metric
- Remote photoplethysmography