Cheap Visual Bioinfo Sensor
Couple cool uses for this. Biodefense platforms for a community. Flip side, spying on workerbees for a corporation.
So far, graduate student Ming-Zher Poh has demonstrated that the system can indeed extract accurate pulse measurements from ordinary low-resolution webcam imagery. Now he’s working on extending the capabilities so it can measure respiration and blood-oxygen levels. He hopes eventually to be able to monitor blood pressure as well.
-Shlok
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