VitalLens: Take A Vital Selfie

Abstract

This report introduces VitalLens, an app that estimates vital signs such as heart rate and respiration rate from selfie video in real time. VitalLens uses a computer vision model trained on a diverse dataset of video and physiological sensor data. We benchmark performance on several diverse datasets, including VV-Medium, which consists of 289 unique participants. VitalLens outperforms several existing methods including POS and MTTS-CAN on all datasets while maintaining a fast inference speed. On VV-Medium, VitalLens achieves mean absolute errors of 0.71 bpm for heart rate estimation, and 0.76 bpm for respiratory rate estimation.