Hamidur Rahman

Ins and Outs of Big Data : A Review

Today with the fast development of digital technologies and advance communications a gigantic amount of data sets with massive and complex structures called ‘Big data’ is being produced everyday enormously and exponentially. Again, the arrival of social media, advent of smart homes, offices and hospitals are connected as Internet of Things (IoT), this influence also a lot to Big data. According to the study, Big data presents data sets with large magnitude including structured, semi-structured or unstructured data. The study also presents the new technologies for data analyzing, collecting, fast searching, proper sharing, exact storing, speedy transferring, hidden pattern visualization and violations of privacy etc. This paper presents an overview of ins and outs of Big Data where the content, scope, samples, methods, advantages, challenges and privacy of Big data have been discussed. The goal of this article is to provide big data knowledge to the research community for the sake of its many real life applications such as traffic management, driver monitoring, health care in hospitals, meteorology and so on.

Non-Contact Physiological Parameters Extraction Using Camera

Physiological parameters such as Heart Rate (HR), Beat-to-Beat Interval (IBI) and Respiration Rate (RR) are vital indicators of people’s physiological state and important to monitor. However, most of the measurements methods are connection based, i.e. sensors are connected to the body which is often complicated and requires personal assistance. This paper proposed a simple, low-cost and non-contact approach for measuring multiple physiological parameters using a web camera in real time. Here, the heart rate and respiration rate are obtained through facial skin colour variation caused by body blood circulation. Three different signal processing methods such as Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), independent component analysis (ICA) and Principal component analysis (PCA) have been applied on the colour channels in video recordings and the blood volume pulse (BVP) is extracted from the facial regions. HR, IBI and RR are subsequently quantified and compared to corresponding reference measurements. High degrees of agreement are achieved between the measurements across all physiological parameters. This technology has significant potential for advancing personal health care and telemedicine.

Driver monitoring in the context of autonomous vehicle

Today research is going on within different essential functions need to bring automatic vehicles to the roads. However, there will be manual driven vehicles for many years before it is fully automated vehicles on roads. In complex situations, automated vehicles will need human assistance for long time. So, for road safety driver monitoring is even more important in the context of autonomous vehicle to keep the driver alert and awake. But, limited effort has been done in total integration between automatic vehicle and human driver. Therefore, human drivers need to be monitored and able to take over control within short notice. This papers provides an overview on autonomous vehicles and un-obstructive driver monitoring approaches that can be implemented in future autonomous vehicles to monitor driver e.g., to diagnose and predict stress, fatigue etc. in semi-automated vehicles.

Intelligent Driver Monitoring Based on Physiological Sensor Signals: Application Using Camera

Recently, there has been increasing interest in low-cost, non-contact and pervasive methods for monitoring physiological information for the drivers. For the intelligent driver monitoring system there has been so many approaches like facial expression based method, driving behavior based method and physiological parameters based method. Physiological parameters such as, heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), respiration rate (RR) etc. are mainly used to monitor physical and mental state. Also, in recent decades, there has been increasing interest in low-cost, non-contact and pervasive methods for measuring physiological information. Monitoring physiological parameters based on camera images is such kind of expected methods that could offer a new paradigm for drivers health monitoring. In this paper, we review the latest developments in using camera images for non-contact physiological parameters that provides a resource for researchers and developers working in the area.

Deep Learning Based Person Identification Using Facial Images

Person identification is an important task for many applications for example in security. A person can be identified using finger print, vocal sound, facial image or even by DNA test. However, Person identification using facial images is one of the most popular technique which is non-contact and easy to implement and a research hotspot in the field of pattern recognition and machine vision. In this paper, a deep learning based Person identification system is proposed using facial images which shows higher accuracy than another traditional machine learning, i.e. Support Vector Machine.

Vision-Based Remote Heart Rate Variability Monitoring Using Camera

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is one of the important physiological parameter which is used to early detect many fatal disease. In this paper a non-contact remote Heart Rate Variability (HRV) monitoring system is developed using the facial video based on color variation of facial skin caused by cardiac pulse. The lab color space of the facial video is used to extract color values of skin and signal processing algorithms i.e., Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Principle Component Analysis (PCA) are applied to monitor HRV. First, R peak is detected from the color variation of skin and then Inter-Beat-Interval (IBI) is calculated for every consecutive R-R peak. HRV features are then calculated based on IBI both in time and frequency domain. MySQL and PHP programming language is used to store, monitor and display HRV parameters remotely. In this study, HRV is quantified and compared with a reference measurement where a high degree of similarities is achieved. This technology has significant potential for advancing personal health care especially for telemedicine.

A Case-Based Classification for Drivers’ Alcohol Detection Using Physiological Signals

This paper presents a case-based classification system for alcohol detection using physiological parameters. Here, four physiological parameters e.g. Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Respiration Rate ...

Falling Angel - a Wrist Worn Fall Detection System Using K-NN Algorithm

A wrist worn fall detection system has been developed where the accelerometer data from an angel sensor is analyzed by a two-layered algorithm in an android phone. Here, the first layer uses a threshold to find potential falls and if the thresholds are met, then in the second layer a machine learning i.e., k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm analyses the data to differentiate it from Activities of Daily Living (ADL) in order to filter out false positives. The final result of this project using the k-NN algorithm provides a classification sensitivity of 96.4%. Here, the acquired sensitivity is 88.1% for the fall detection and the specificity for ADL is 98.1%.