In plain words: A network watches video of a person's face and uses how skin reflects light, guided by what the skin looks like, to measure heart and breathing rate even when the head moves a lot. It beat every current method on color and infrared video.
Abstract · DeepPhys: Video-Based Physiological Measurement Using Convolutional Attention Networks
Non-contact video-based physiological measurement has many applications in health care and human-computer interaction. Practical applications require measurements to be accurate even in the presence of large head rotations. We propose the first end-to-end system for video-based measurement of heart and breathing rate using a deep convolutional network. The system features a new motion representation based on a skin reflection model and a new attention mechanism using appearance information to guide motion estimation, both of which enable robust measurement under heterogeneous lighting and major motions. Our approach significantly outperforms all current state-of-the-art methods on both RGB and infrared video datasets. Furthermore, it allows spatial-temporal distributions of physiological signals to be visualized via the attention mechanism.
Weixuan Chen, Daniel McDuff
arXiv:1805.07888 · cs.CV, cs.HC · submitted May 21, 2018 · updated Aug 7, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted paper at ECCV 2018. 16 pages, 3 figures, supplementary materials in the ancillary files