Continuous low latency heart rate estimation from painful faces in real time

摘要

Video based heart rate estimation has several advantages compared to the classical method. Current approaches use long time windows (30sec) to calculate heart rates, which results in high latency and is a big disadvantage for a practical use. To overcome this constraint, we propose a low latency approach for continuous frame based heart rate estimation. It is based on combination of face tracking and skin detection using short time windows (10sec) to filter and analyze the extracted PPG signals in real time. In experiments the presented approach performs with high accuracy (85,2%, with error <;3 BPM) under stable illumination conditions using a pain recognition data set including facial expressions and head movement for validation.