Automatic Region-Based Heart Rate Measurement Using Remote Photoplethysmography

Benjamin Kossack, Eric Wisotzky, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021, pp. 2755-2759

Abstract

This paper presents a model-based approach to measure the vital signs from RGB video files focusing on the heart rate. We use the plane-orthogonal-to-skin (POS) remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) transformation performed individually at five well-defined regions of interest (ROI) in the face. We extract the heart rate information by a correlation of the different rPPG signals in these ROIs and a magnitude-based reliability calculation. This increases the robustness of the heart rate extraction from videos. With this method, we achieve a mean of all calculated mean-absolute-errors of 8.324 BPM in the V4V-Challenge data (averaged over all videos of the training and validation set).

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@InProceedings{Kossack_2021_ICCV, author = {Kossack, Benjamin and Wisotzky, Eric and Hilsmann, Anna and Eisert, Peter}, title = {Automatic Region-Based Heart Rate Measurement Using Remote Photoplethysmography}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2021}, pages = {2755-2759} }