Remote Photoplethysmography from Low Resolution videos: An end-to-end solution using Efficient ConvNets
This work addresses non-invasive heart rate monitoring for applications in gaming and medicine, but it is incremental as it builds on existing deep learning methods for remote photoplethysmography.
The authors tackled the problem of measuring heart rate from low-resolution facial videos using efficient convolutional networks, achieving real-time performance through model pruning and benchmarking on the MAHNOB dataset.
Measurement of the cardiac pulse from facial video has become an interesting pursuit of research over the last few years. This is mainly due to the increasing importance of obtaining the heart rate of an individual in a non-invasive manner, which can be highly useful for applications in gaming and the medical industry. Another instrumental area of research over the past few years has been the advent of Deep Learning and using Deep Neural networks to enhance task performance. In this work, we propose to use efficient convolutional networks to accurately measure the heart rate of user from low resolution facial videos. Furthermore, to ensure that we are able to obtain the heart rate in real time, we compress the deep learning model by pruning it, thereby reducing its memory footprint. We benchmark the performance of our approach on the MAHNOB dataset and compare its performance across multiple approaches.