Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Ewa Nowara

Hassan Mansour

Tim Marks

Yudai Nakamura

Ashok Veeraraghavan

Ashok Veeraghavan

A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system for estimating vital signs of a person is provided. The RPPG system is configured to receive a set of imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) signals measured from different regions of a skin of a person. The RPPG system is further configured to determine frequency coefficients at the frequency bins of the quantized frequency spectrum of the measured iPPG signals by minimizing a distance between the measured iPPG signals and corresponding iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, while enforcing joint sparsity of the determined frequency coefficients subject to the sparsity level constraint, such that the determined frequency coefficients of different iPPG signals have the non-zero values at the same frequency bins; and output one or a combination of the determined frequency coefficients, the iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, and a vital sign signal corresponding to the reconstructed iPPG signals.

System and method for remote measurements of vital signs of a person in a volatile environment

A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system includes an input interface to receive a sequence of measurements of intensities of different regions of a skin of a person indicative of vital signs of the person; a solver to solve an optimization problem to determine frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms corresponding to the measured intensities at the different regions, wherein the solver determines the frequency coefficients to reduce a distance between intensities of the skin reconstructed from the frequency coefficients and the corresponding measured intensities of the skin while enforcing joint sparsity on the frequency coefficients; and an estimator to estimate the vital signs of the person from the determined frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms.

System and method for remote measurements of vital signs

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