Device, system and method for skin detection
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1. A system for skin detection of vital sign information, comprising:
- a color video camera configured to acquire a sequence of color image frames;
a control computer processor configured to;
receive the sequence of image frames,segment the images frames of said sequence of image frames,track segments of the segmented image frames in said sequence of image frames,cluster the tracked segments using temporal color variations of the tracked segments as a feature for clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject, andextract vital sign information from the clustered tracked segments; and
a user interface including a display configured to be controlled by control computer processor to display the extracted vital sign information.
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Abstract
An input unit (20) obtains a sequence of image frames over time. A segmentation unit (22) segments image frames of the sequence of image frames. A tracking unit (24) tracks segments of the segmented image frame over time in the sequence of image frames. A clustering unit (26) clusters the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject by use of one or more image features of the tracked segments.
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1. A system for skin detection of vital sign information, comprising:
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a color video camera configured to acquire a sequence of color image frames; a control computer processor configured to; receive the sequence of image frames, segment the images frames of said sequence of image frames, track segments of the segmented image frames in said sequence of image frames, cluster the tracked segments using temporal color variations of the tracked segments as a feature for clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject, and extract vital sign information from the clustered tracked segments; and a user interface including a display configured to be controlled by control computer processor to display the extracted vital sign information. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A device for skin detection comprising:
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an input unit for obtaining a sequence of image frames acquired over time, a segmentation unit for segmenting an image frame of said sequence of image frames, a tracking unit for tracking segments of the segmented image frame over time in said sequence of image frames, a clustering unit for clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject by use of one or more image features of said tracked segments, wherein said clustering unit is configured to compute the inner product between normalized time signals of different tracked segments and to cluster said tracked segments into a single cluster if said inner product exceeds a predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A device for skin detection comprising:
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a camera configured to acquire a sequence of image frames of skin of a subject over time; a user interface including a display; and a computer programmed to; segment the image frames of said sequence of image frames, track segments of the segmented image frames of the sequence of image frames over time, cluster the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin of a subject using one or more image features of the tracked segments, repeatedly perform the segmentation, the tracking and the clustering, wherein the sequence of acquired image frames used for subsequent repetitions overlap in time, repeatedly extract physiological information from the clustered tracked segments, and controlling the user interface display to display the extracted physiological information. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for skin detection comprising:
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obtaining a sequence of image frames of a subject acquired over time, segmenting the image frames of said sequence of image frames to define segments, tracking the segments of the segmented image frames over time in said sequence of image frames, clustering the tracked segments to obtain clusters representing skin properties of the subject by use of one or more image features of said tracked segments, and iteratively repeating the segmenting, tracking, and clustering to update the skin properties, wherein the sequence of image frames of subsequent repetitions overlap in time. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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