Supervised learning approach to remote heart rate estimation from facial videos. Osman, A., Turcot, J., & Kaliouby, R., E. 2015 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2015, 2015.
Supervised learning approach to remote heart rate estimation from facial videos [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
A supervised machine learning approach to remote video-based heart rate (HR) estimation is proposed. We demonstrate the possibility of training a discriminative statistical model to estimate the Blood Volume Pulse signal (BVP) from the human face using ambient light and any offthe- shelf webcam. The proposed algorithm is 120 times faster than state of the art approach and returns a confidence metric to evaluate the HR estimates plausibility. The algorithm was evaluated against the state-of-the-art on 120 minutes of face videos, the largest video-based heart rate evaluation to date. The evaluation results showed a 53% decrease in the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) compared to state-of-the-art.

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