Success But The Struggle Is Still Real!! Week 3 PATH-UPS 2019

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My goal for this week was to use the webcam to track the face and locate a region of interest (ROI) and then use that ROI to measure the heart rate (HR). These things were done with success, but I still have a few bugs/kinks to work out. Check out my and pics below:

Video 1: Face  and ROI Tracking with motion

Video 2: Face and ROI Tracking Static

Video 3: Heart Rate Detection using Webcam

 

rPPG Output using ambient lighting inside. The top graph (wave) is the raw signal. The bottom graph (wave) is power spectral density curve when the peaks represents the actual heart beat .

Video 4: Using Pulse Ox to compare webcam HR

I was trying the program using natural lighting outside. However,  yesterday (6/28/19) when I tried to run the program again using an additional green light source, the program kept freezing and wouldn’t take the HR. I will have to debug the code and try to figure out the issue.

Attempting to run the program again using additional light source

I’ve also set up a meeting for this weekend with my friend Doug to help me learn how to build an app since I have no experience building an app.

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