VitaMon: Measuring heart rate variability using smartphone front camera

• Main Authors: HUYNH, Sinh, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, KO, JeongGil, LEE, Youngki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Heart Rate Variability; Photoplethysmography (PPG); Remote PPG; Mobile Sensing; Computer Sciences; Health Information Technology; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4933; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5936/viewcontent/VitaMon_2019_pv_oa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present VitaMon, a mobile sensing system that can measure the inter-heartbeat interval (IBI) from the facial video captured by a commodity smartphone's front camera. The continuous IBI measurement is used to compute heart rate variability (HRV), one of the most important markers of the auton...