A Simple, Remote, Video Based Breathing Monitor
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Overview:
Breathing monitors have become the all-important cornerstone of a wide variety of commercial and personal safety applications, ranging from elderly care to baby monitoring. Many such monitors exist in the market, some, with vital signs monitoring capabilities, but none remote. We presents a simple, yet efficient, real time method of extracting the subject's breathing sinus rhythm. Points of interest are detected on the subject's body, and the corresponding optical flow is estimated and tracked using the well-known Lucas-Kanade algorithm on a frame by frame basis. A generalized likelihood ratio test is then utilized on each of the many interest points to detect which is moving in harmonic fashion. Finally, a spectral estimation algorithm based on Pisarenko harmonic decomposition tracks the harmonic frequency in real time, and a fusion maximum likelihood algorithm optimally estimates the breathing rate using all points considered. The results show a maximal error of 1 BPM between the true breathing rate and the algorithm's calculated rate, based on experiments on two babies and three adults.
Speaker: Nir Regev
Research scientist, with over 21 years of experience in developing algorithms. Loves engineering problems that are insoluble. Specializing in computer vision, radar signal processing, multi-target tracking and deep learning classification, radar micro-Doppler deep learning based target classification, optimization and statistical signal processing.
Schedule:
7:00 pm: meet, greet & eat
7:30 (ish) pm: main presentation, followed by a healthy Q&A
8:00 pm: doors close to new-entrants - so make sure to arrive before this time!
Parking:
GumGum is happy to offer a parking lot for attendees of this meetup. The lot is located at 1430 Lincoln Blvd, which you can access via alleyway off of Broadway. The lot is between Lincoln Blvd and the alleyway. There is also paid parking at the Santa Monica Library.
1337 7th St. Santa Monica, 4th Floor
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A Simple, Remote, Video Based Breathing Monitor