Research Article

Noncontact Heart Rate Measurement Using a Webcam, Based on Joint Blind Source Separation and a Skin Reflection Model: For a Wide Range of Imaging Conditions

Table 4

Performance of four methods on the dataset from a previous study in our laboratory (dark-skinned tone).

ConditionMetricJBSS_EEMDPOSProject_ICAProposed method

StationaryMAD (bpm)9.744.244.586.76
RMSE (bpm)12.776.526.7110.01
0.070.760.740.70
Exercise recoveryMAD (bpm)18.4420.4916.7219.35
RMSE (bpm)22.2627.3224.3423.42
-0.01-0.030.270.28
Swinging headMAD (bpm)15.738.618.557.26
RMSE (bpm)19.3111.8411.929.72
0.440.520.510.61
Human-computer interactionMAD (bpm)10.306.526.516.86
RMSE (bpm)13.329.569.3910.67
0.040.580.580.47