linkedopenknowledge / facetoheart

Get Heart Rate from Face using Java and OpenCV

FaceToHeart

Measure Heart Rate from Face.

Inspired from

• webcam-pulse-detector

Following documents and papers helped a lot in developing this.

• Measuring Heart Rate from Video - Isabel Bush - Stanford - link
• Real Time Heart Rate Monitoring From Facial RGB Color Video Using Webcam - H. Rahman, M.U. Ahmed, S. Begum, P. Funk - link
• Measuring Pulse Rate by using webcam - link

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need for development.

• JDK 10
• IntelliJ IDEA (Recommended)

Libraries Needed

Below are the minimum libraries required for development :

• OpenCV 3.4.2
• Minim 2.2.2

• Minim can be added in gradle via this link

• If you are getting below exception then try to set path environment variable to the x64 version of opencv_java410.dll

• MyFrame.main() Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java410 in java.library.path

• After setting path variable to the location of dll directory, you might need to restart the computer.

Face Detection

Face Detection is processed with HaarCascade

Authors

• Pishang Ujeniya - pishangujeniya

Acknowledgments

• Special thanks to this question on StackOverFlow
• Hat tip to anyone whose code was used
• Inspiration
• etc