Head-motion Robust Video-based Heart Rate Estimation Using Facial Feature Point Fluctuations.

Abstract

Interest in measuring heart rates (HRs) without physical contact has increased in the area of stress checking and health care. In this paper, we propose head-motion robust video-based heart rate estimation using facial feature point fluctuations. The proposed method adaptively estimates and removes such rigid-noise components as noise stemming from horizontal head motion and extracts relatively small heart signals. Rigid-noise components can be accurately estimated and removed by using changes in facial feature points which are not dominant over heart signals and are more dominant over noise signals than are such luminance signals as RGB. In evaluation experiments on a benchmark dataset, our method achieved the highest accuracy among state-of-the-art methods.