Presentation 2019-03-15
Remote Heart Rate Sensing Using RGB/NIR Videos Under Varying Illumination
Kosuke Kurihara, Daisuke Sugimura, Takayuki Hamamoto,
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Abstract(in English) We propose a method for heart rate (HR) estimation that is robust to various situations, including bright, low-light, and varying illumination scenes. We introduce a scheme for adaptive fusion of RGB and NIR signals for HR estimation, by analyzing variations in background illuminations. NIR signals are more reliable in HR estimation than RGB ones in complex illumination scenes, because NIR signals can be captured independent to changes in the background illuminations. By measuring correlations of signals between background and face regions, we adaptively utilize RGB and NIR signals for HR estimation. Experiments demonstrate the e?ectiveness of our method.
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Keyword(in English) Remote vital sensing / RGB/NIR camera / Varying illumination
Paper # IMQ2018-56,IE2018-140,MVE2018-87
Date of Issue 2019-03-07 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

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Committee IMQ / IE / MVE / CQ
Conference Date 2019/3/14(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kagoshima University
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) media of five senses, multimedia, media experience, picture codinge, image media quality, network,quality and reliability, etc
Chair Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Kenji Mase(Nagoya Univ.) / Takanori Hayashi(Hiroshima Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.) / Mitsuru Maeda(Canon) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT) / Kazuya Kodama(NII) / Masayuki Ihara(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) / Jun Okamoto(NTT)
Secretary Toshiya Nakaguchi(Nagoya Univ.) / Mitsuru Maeda(Sony) / Hideaki Kimata(KDDI Research) / Kazuya Kodama(Nagoya Univ.) / Masayuki Ihara(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Kyushu Univ.) / Jun Okamoto(Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant Masaru Tsuchida(NTT) / Gosuke Ohashi(Shizuoka Univ.) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Satoshi Nishiguchi(Oosaka Inst. of Tech.) / Masanori Yokoyama(*) / Chikara Sasaki(KDDI Research) / Yoshiaki Nishikawa(NEC) / Ryo Yamamoto(UEC)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Image Media Quality / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Media Experience and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Communication Quality
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Remote Heart Rate Sensing Using RGB/NIR Videos Under Varying Illumination
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Remote vital sensing
Keyword(2) RGB/NIR camera
Keyword(3) Varying illumination
1st Author's Name Kosuke Kurihara
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science(Tokyo Univ. of Science)
2nd Author's Name Daisuke Sugimura
2nd Author's Affiliation Tsuda University(Tsuda Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Takayuki Hamamoto
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University of Science(Tokyo Univ. of Science)
Date 2019-03-15
Paper # IMQ2018-56,IE2018-140,MVE2018-87
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) IMQ-500,IE-501,MVE-502
Page pp.pp.193-196(IMQ), pp.193-196(IE), pp.193-196(MVE),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2019-03-07 (IMQ, IE, MVE)