Design and Implementation of a Noncontact Sleep Monitoring System Using Infrared Cameras and Motion Sensor

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 67; no. 7; pp. 1555 - 1563
• Main Authors: Deng, Fei, Dong, Jianwu, Wang, Xiangyu, Fang, Ying, Liu, Yu, Yu, Zhaofei, Liu, Jing, Chen, Feng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.07.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Biomedical monitoring; Body posture; Breathing; Cameras; Classification; Disorders; Feasibility studies; Head; Human motion; Infrared cameras; Infrared detectors; Machine learning; Magnetic heads; Monitoring; Monitoring systems; motion analysis; Motion sensors; Occlusion; Posture; Respiration; Sleep; Sleep apnea; Sleep disorders; sleep monitoring; Template matching; Tracking

Quality sleep is essential for human health. Recent developments in sleep monitoring techniques show great promise of detecting sleep disorders and improving sleep quality. Two important indicators for sleep disorders are breathing and posture, but existing methods deal with them separately, and har...