• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.33-37
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• 2024

Recently, wearable virtual reality devices are widely used. These instruments include a 3-axis accelerometer. User's heart rate information in virtual reality contents can be useful for measuring user experience. In this paper, we propose a method to measure the heart rate through a 3-axis accelerometer based on the principle of ballistocardiography without additional sensors. The angular velocity was successively measured in a time series by the 3-axis accelerometer mounted to the head. The frequency of the maximum magnitude is determined as the heart rate through frequency transform and band pass filtering of the time series signal. For verification, the heart rate calculated from photoplethysmography sensors acquired at the same time was compared as ground-truth. In the virtual reality, the user's heart rate information can be extracted without additional heart rate sensor, and the emotional state and fatigue can be measured.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.1388-1395
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• 2020

Daily monitoring of the heart rate can facilitate detection of heart-related diseases in their early stages. Therefore, providing an easy-to-use and noninvasive heart rate monitoring system has been a very popular research topic in the field of healthcare. One of good candidate methods is to use commonly available cameras and extract information that can help to estimate heart rate from a human face. Generally, such information can be retrieved using two different approaches: photoplethysmography (PPG) and ballistocardiography (BCG). PPG exploits slight color changes caused by blood volume variations during heartbeats; thus, it tends to be vulnerable to unstable lighting conditions. BCG exploits subtle head motions caused by pumped blood travelling through the carotid artery during heartbeats; thus, it is vulnerable to the voluntary head movements that are not related to heartbeats. Nevertheless, most related works use either to estimate the heart rate. In this paper, we propose to combine two approaches to be robust to challenging conditions. Specifically, we explore possible ways to combine raw signals obtained from two approaches and verify that the proposed combination shows better accuracies under challenging conditions, such as voluntary head movements and ambient lighting changes.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2019

본 논문은 모바일 환경에서의 BCG기반 심박 수 측정을 위한 향상된 심박 신호 추출 방법을 제안한다. 우선, 모바일 카메라를 이용하여 사용자의 얼굴을 촬영한 비디오로부터 얼굴 특징과 배경 특징을 동시에 추적함으로써 손 떨림에 의한 영향을 제거한 머리 움직임 신호를 추출한다. 그리고 머리 움직임 신호로부터 심박 신호를 정확하게 분리해내기 위해 신호의 주기성을 계산하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 모바일 얼굴 비디오로부터 강건하게 심박 신호를 추출할 수 있으며, 기존 방법에 비해 보다 정확하게 심박 수 측정(측정 오차가 3-4 bpm 감소)을 할 수 있다.