For easily and quickly detecting heart rate and achieving normal care of cardiovascular disease
a contactless heart rate detection scheme combining videosequence detection with embedded system is presented. The cardiovascular activity usually results in periodically changed vascular volume in each cycle
and affects the absorption and reflection of light on body surface. Capturing the changed reflected light from the superficial body
the cardiovascular activity timing can be analyzed. Human videosequence acquisition is completed by the embedded portable terminal with CMOS image sensor. Then the face detection
the blind source separation and the independent variables power spectral density analysis are conducted to evaluate heart rate parameters. The heart rate from our scheme is almost equal to that from electrocardiogram. The measurement error gets less than 2.8% and sensitivity achieves 1 time/min. Especially
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