Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

The present invention relates to a device, system and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject. To provide a high motion robustness, the proposed device comprises an input interface configured to obtain at least two detection signals derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject, wherein each detection signal comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in a different wavelength channel, a pulse signal computation unit configured to compute at least two pulse signals from said at least two detection signals using different signature vectors for the computation of each pulse signal, a quality indicator computation unit configured to compute quality indicator values for said pulse signals indicating a characteristic of the respective pulse signal, and a processing unit configured to derive physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign from the signature vector that results in the pulse signal with the best quality indicator value and/or from said pulse signal.</p

Device, system and method for skin detection

The present invention relates to a device, system and method for skin detection. To enable a reliable, accurate and fast skin detection the proposed device comprises an input unit (20) for obtaining a sequence of image frames acquired over time, a segmentation unit (22) for segmenting an image frame of said sequence of image frames, a tracking unit (24) for tracking segments of the segmented image frame over time in said sequence of image frames, and a clustering unit (26) for clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject by use of one or more image features of said tracked segments.</p

System and method for extracting physiological information from remotely detected electromagnetic radiation

The present invention relates to a device and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one health symptom from remotely detected electromagnetic radiation. The device comprises an interface (20) for receiving a data stream comprising remotely detected image data representing an observed region comprising at least one subject of interest (12), wherein the image data comprises wavelength-dependent image information, wherein the wavelength-dependent image information is composed of at least two color channels (96, 98, 100) representative of respective wavelength portions; an image processor (22) for detecting channel signal strength information for at least two of the at least two color channels (96, 98, 100); and a data comparison unit (24) for comparing detected channel signal strengths with respective reference values.</p

Device and method for determing vital signs of a subject

The present invention relates to a Device for determining vital signs of a subject comprising an interface (22) for receiving a periodic photoplethysmographic, PPG, signal obtained from a subject (14) by a PPG measurement, a signal partitioning unit (24) for partitioning the PPG signal in time into a plurality of PPG sub-signals covering a half period or an integer multiple of a half period, a normalizing unit (26) for normalizing the PPG signal in advance of the partitioning and/or the PPG sub-signals in time and/or amplitude, a signal combination unit (28) for combining a number of normalized PPG sub-signals to obtain a combined PPG sub-signal, and a vital sign processor (30) for deriving a desired vital sign from the PPG signal, one or more combined PPG sub-signals or an enhanced PPG signal obtained by consecutively arranging a number of combined PPG sub-signals.</p

Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

A device for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a subject comprises an input interface for receiving a data stream of detection data derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject. The detection data comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in at least two signal channels representative of respective wavelength portions. A signal mixer dynamically mixes the at least two signal channels into at least one mixed signal. A processor derives physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign from the at least one mixed signal, and a controller controls the signal mixer to limit the relative contributions of the at least two signal channels mixed into at least one mixed signal and/or the rate-of-change at which said relative contributions are allowed to dynamically change.</p

Device, system and method for extracting physiological information

The present invention relates to a device, system and a method for extracting physiological information indicative of at least one vital sign of a subject. To provide a high motion robustness, the proposed device comprises an input interface (30) for obtaining at least two detection signals (Cn) derived from detected electromagnetic radiation transmitted through or reflected from a skin region of a subject, wherein each detection signal comprises wavelength-dependent reflection or transmission information in a different wavelength channel, a pulse signal computation unit (32) for computing at least two pulse signals (S1, S2) from said at least two detection signals (Cn) using different signature vectors (Pbv1, Pbv2) for the computation of each pulse signal, a quality indicator computation unit (34) for computing quality indicator values (Q1, Q2) for said pulse signals (S1, S2) indicating a characteristic of the respective pulse signal, and a processing unit (38) for deriving physiological information (V) indicative of at least one vital sign from the signature vector that results in the pulse signal with the best quality indicator value (Q1, Q2) and/or from said pulse signal.</p

Efficient dense blur map estimation for automatic 2D-to-3D conversion

Focus is an important depth cue for 2D-to-3D conversion of low depth-of-field images and video. However, focus can be only reliably estimated on edges. Therefore, Bea et al. [1] first proposed an optimization based approach to propagate focus to non-edge image portions, for single image focus editing. While their approach produces accurate dense blur maps, the computational complexity and memory requirements for solving the resulting sparse linear system with standard multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques, are infeasible within the stringent requirements of the consumer electronics and broadcast industry. In this paper we propose fast, efficient, low latency, line scanning based focus propagation, which mitigates the need for complex multigrid or (multilevel) preconditioning techniques. In addition we propose facial blur compensation to compensate for false shading edges that cause incorrect blur estimates in people's faces. In general shading leads to incorrect focus estimates, which may lead to unnatural 3D and visual discomfort. Since visual attention mostly tends to faces, our solution solves the most distracting errors. A subjective assessment by paired comparison on a set of challenging low-depth-of-field images shows that the proposed approach achieves equal 3D image quality as optimization based approaches, and that facial blur compensation results in a significant improvemen

Determining a pulse signal from a video sequence

According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for determining a pulse signal from a video sequence, the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to obtain a video sequence, the video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames; form a plurality of video sub-sequences, each video sub-sequence comprising a frame segment from each image frame in a subset of the image frames, wherein each image frame is divided into a plurality of frame segments; for a first video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from a first subset of image frames, comparing a representative value for the first video sub-sequence to representative values for video sub-sequences formed from frame segments from a second subset of image frames; concatenate the first video sub-sequence to a second video sub-sequence formed from frame segments from the second subset of image frames based on the comparison of representative values; and determine a pulse signal from the concatenated video sub-sequences.</p