Multi-modal, remote breathing monitor

Nir Regev, Dov Wulich

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Abstract

Monitoring breathing is important for a plethora of applications including, but not limited to, baby monitoring, sleep monitoring, and elderly care. This paper presents a way to fuse both vision-based and RF-based modalities for the task of estimating the breathing rate of a human. The modalities used are the F200 Intel® RealSense™ RGB and depth (RGBD) sensor, and an ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. RGB image-based features and their corresponding image coordinates are detected on the human body and are tracked using the famous optical flow algorithm of Lucas and Kanade. The depth at these coordinates is also tracked. The synced-radar received signal is processed to extract the breathing pattern. All of these signals are then passed to a harmonic signal detector which is based on a generalized likelihood ratio test. Finally, a spectral estimation algorithm based on the reformed Pisarenko algorithm tracks the breathing fundamental frequencies in real-time, which are then fused into a one optimal breathing rate in a maximum likelihood fashion. We tested this multimodal set-up on 14 human subjects and we report a maximum error of 0.5 BPM compared to the true breathing rate.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1229
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Volume20
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Feb 2020

Keywords

  • IR-UWB radar
  • Micro-Doppler
  • Optical flow
  • Spectral estimation
  • Vital signs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Instrumentation
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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