A Maximum Likelihood Formulation to Exploit Heart Rate Variability for Robust Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Video

Raseena, KT and Ghosh, PK (2018) A Maximum Likelihood Formulation to Exploit Heart Rate Variability for Robust Heart Rate Estimation from Facial Video. In: 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018, 18 - 21 July 2018, Honolulu, pp. 5191-5194.

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Abstract

The problem of estimating the heart rate (HR) from a racial video is considered. A typical approach for this problem is to use independent component analysis (ICA) on the red, blue, green intensity prof iles averaged over the facial region. This provides estimates of the underlying source signals, whose spectral peaks are used to predict HR in every analysis window. In this work, we propose a maximum likelihood formulation to optimally select a source signal in each window such that the predicted HR trajectory not only corresponds to the most likely spectral peaks but also ensures a realistic HR variability (HRV) across analysis windows. The likelihood function is efficiently optimized using dynamic programming in a manner similar to Viterbi decoding. The proposed scheme for HR estimation is denoted by vICA. The performance of vICA is compared with a typical ICA approach as well as a recently proposed sparse spectral peak tracking (SSPT) technique that ensures that the predicted HR does not vary drastically across analysis windows. Experiments are performed in a five fold setup using racial videos of 15 subjects recorded using two types of smartphones (Samsung Galaxy and iPhone) at three different distances (6inches, lfoot, 2feet) between the phone camera and the subject. Mean absolute error (MAE) between the original and predicted HR reveals that the proposed vICA scheme performs better than the best of the baseline schemes, namely SSPT by -8.69, 52.77 and 8.00 when Samsung Galaxy phone was used at a distance of 6inches, lfoot, and 2feet respectively. These improvements are 12.13, 13.59 and 18.34 when iPhone was used. This, in turn, suggests that the HR predicted from a racial video becomes more accurate when the smoothness of HRV is utilized in predicting the HR trajectory as done in the proposed vICA.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to the IEEE.
Keywords:	algorithm; face; heart rate; human; smartphone; statistical model, Algorithms; Face; Heart Rate; Humans; Likelihood Functions; Smartphone
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2022 06:13
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2022 06:13
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/75193

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