{"title":"CONTACT SURFACE AREA: A NOVEL SIGNAL FOR HEART RATE ESTIMATION IN SMARTPHONE VIDEOS","authors":"Sara Fridovich-Keil, P. Ramadge","doi":"10.1109/GlobalSIP.2018.8646391","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of smartphone video-based heart rate estimation, which typically relies on measuring the green color intensity of the user’s skin. We describe a novel signal in fingertip videos used for smartphone-based heart rate estimation: fingertip contact surface area. We propose a model relating contact surface area to pressure, and validate it on a dataset of 786 videos from 62 participants by demonstrating a statistical correlation between contact surface area and green color intensity. We estimate heart rate on our dataset with two algorithms, a baseline using the green signal only and a novel algorithm based on both color and area. We demonstrate lower rates of substantial errors (> 10 beats per minute) using the novel algorithm (4.1%), compared both to the baseline algorithm (6.4%) and to published results using commercial color-based applications (≥ 6%).","PeriodicalId":119131,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GlobalSIP.2018.8646391","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We consider the problem of smartphone video-based heart rate estimation, which typically relies on measuring the green color intensity of the user’s skin. We describe a novel signal in fingertip videos used for smartphone-based heart rate estimation: fingertip contact surface area. We propose a model relating contact surface area to pressure, and validate it on a dataset of 786 videos from 62 participants by demonstrating a statistical correlation between contact surface area and green color intensity. We estimate heart rate on our dataset with two algorithms, a baseline using the green signal only and a novel algorithm based on both color and area. We demonstrate lower rates of substantial errors (> 10 beats per minute) using the novel algorithm (4.1%), compared both to the baseline algorithm (6.4%) and to published results using commercial color-based applications (≥ 6%).