Check out Andrew's video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mHielM2SeamTo6g.html and his python code is here: github.com/ajsteele/faceHR The sponsor is KiwiCo: Get your first month free here kiwico.com/stevemould

@anthonylosego

Жыл бұрын

The only code problem I see is that he spelled colors wrong. There is no u in colors. At least he got cvtColor correct. ;-)

@samditto

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonylosego bludy ell, wot a nonce this bugga is

@QIKUGAMES-QIKU

Жыл бұрын

☝ that card thing you pointed at didn't work ? Nothing came up there. Remember to Reverse your sides when pointing or you have to flip your video in editing

@kashmirha

Жыл бұрын

Professor Mold :D

@civilisedzombie

Жыл бұрын

Vertical is intensity and horizontal is time.

The labels on the graph killed me, as someone whose studying to be an engineer I’m definitely gonna steal those for my charts

@ThePoushal

Жыл бұрын

Future Arup employee

@AndreasNortham3906

Жыл бұрын

Theranus

@bruhmania7359

Жыл бұрын

@@VladimirPani yeah that's why he's an engineer and you're a starbucks employee

@liaeys

Жыл бұрын

@@VladimirPani my guy needs to retake english

@Monkey_Luffy01

Жыл бұрын

-\_(シ)_/- Time, I guess

Thanks for having me! Honestly the most fun I’ve had strapping electrodes to someone and filming it.

@johnnyjoevazquez

Жыл бұрын

The military will definitely use/steal this tech my guy

@3dprintworld503

Жыл бұрын

dude, why do you have less replies than me my guy?

If you've ever listened to a heart for a long period of time, it's kinda scary how irregular they are, but that's how they work

@FSM_Reviews

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I can feel it too. Some pauses are ever so slightly longer, and some are ever so slightly shorter. It happens more often when I'm nervous, anxious, or otherwise distressed in some way.

@iliyashapirov7720

Жыл бұрын

My heart beats 2-3 times faster when I'm breathing in

@finleysmurflton4851

Жыл бұрын

Anybody who’s gotten WAY too high can attest to this

@noctisumbra4656

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard a newborn's heart? And not only their heart, their kind of respiration it's scary

@a0zhar

Жыл бұрын

@@noctisumbra4656newborn’s are dark art

In case you are interested, there are other examples of pulse taking using cameras in the world of video games. The Kinect 2.0 was purported to be sensitive enough to read the color variations of the skin to estimate pulse readings, very much like what was shown here. But the Xbox fitness app that used it was discontinued before I'd tested it. Ring Fit Adventure on the Nintendo Switch uses the simple IR camera built into one of the controllers to read pulse rate at the fingertips.

@Fullchaos40

Жыл бұрын

Phone cameras already over compensate on the green and red to make pictures better 🤔

@GoTeamScotch

Жыл бұрын

The kinect 2 was such a cool piece of tech at the time that went woefully underutilized. Too bad it didn't catch on.

@tams805

Жыл бұрын

@@GoTeamScotch The botched launch of the Xbox One forcing people to use Kinect probably didn't help. It tarnished the 'Kinect' brand. A shame, as it was a great bit of kit, but unlike PSVR, Microsoft didn't really try to make it stand on its own.

@silpheedTandy

Жыл бұрын

i'd like to see a survival-horror game that somehow used pulse information to find the most optimal way to scare its players (via things like music, etc) and give them nightmares..

@prateekpanwar646

Жыл бұрын

If Microsoft marketed Kinect towards students, IOT developers. It’d have sold a lot more.

2:31 “And obviously if the premature baby has a beard like this, you would shave it” I wheezed at this

@slidey1788

4 күн бұрын

Never shave a baby......

A graph of "shrugging emoticon" over "time I guess" is so perfect. Thanks for labeling your axes, and using the correct units Steve. That made me very happy. It may take some time, but someday in the not-too far off future, I imagine every room will have some form of sensors built-in. It's going to take some clever data scientists, like your guest here, to turn the resulting mess of data into useful information. But that information could be used to do things like call the paramedics if someone's heart rhythm goes arrhythmic. That's pretty cool on its own, but it's also one step closer to a Roddenberry-esque post-scarcity eutopia, and I'm all for it. Well, at least perhaps until the advertisers get ahold of the sensor data.

@__--__

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure insurance companies would this data! Having this in their consulting room and they may rethink your low premiums.

@Wander4P

Жыл бұрын

It's like Apple's performance graphs

@JudgeDeadMJ

Жыл бұрын

that sounds extremely dystopian

@thePronto

Жыл бұрын

"Tricorder readings indicate that you should stay away from the Captain." "Why is that Mr Spock?" "You are ovulating, Lieutenant, and he is a hound dog."

@rockets4kids

Жыл бұрын

It may take some time, but someday in the not-too far off future, this is how the robots will able to detect the replicants.

Superb video. This heart stuff sounds fascinating. But don't think I'm not silently judging you both for not even attempting to say "photoplethysmography" once during the video.

@SteveMould

Жыл бұрын

Andrew actually said it many times. I cut it out for time/because I was jealous that I couldn't say it.

Six or seven years ago I was attending engineering master thesis dissertations in the Trento University and one of the candidates proposed a similar method to monitor - using a very low resolutions webcam - the heartbeats of bus drivers, as an extra safety measure for public transportation. I was very surprised because it worked!

@goku445

2 ай бұрын

"the heartbeats of bus drivers" How would you use such data?

@davidrenton

25 күн бұрын

@@goku445 maybe you could tie in with gradual breaking, throttle limits, if it detected unusual out of limits results, the difference being , it does'nt require anything to be worn, or attached to the driver, just a camera device looking at the driver

You can tell Andrew is a data guy from the way he talks about a simple graph of numbers.

@DrAndrewSteele

Жыл бұрын

IT WAS PRETTY DAMMIT

@primenumberbuster404

Жыл бұрын

@@DrAndrewSteele lol

Next question: How does a smart watch measure blood pressure? I think it also uses light, and no doubt there are a ton of scientific papers out there mentioning things like photoplethysmography but no layman-level explanation which you are brilliant at delivering 😊

@matt2483

Жыл бұрын

Afaik the only smart watches that measure blood pressure use the same technique that a inflatable blood pressure cuff uses. I could be out of the loop though and a watch that can do blood pressure with only light would be awesome to know about!

@DrAndrewSteele

Жыл бұрын

With difficulty! They basically try to measure the exact shape of that graph of light brightness against time, and depending on whether it’s skewed one way or the other infer the blood pressure using _(waves hands)_ algorithms. They’re not very accurate yet though, and you have to recalibrate them every few weeks with a traditional blood pressure cuff.

@Masalmeh321

Жыл бұрын

I did a whole thesis on this exact topic, turns out you can infer blood pressure by measuring PPG and ECG together, then measuring the time delay between the peaks. That is a crude measurement of the PWV (pulse wave velocity) of your blood going from the heart to the extremity where you're measuring PPG (ECG peaks will always lead PPG peaks). Calibrating for arterial distensibility (strechiness) and temperature and age and baseline and a bunch of other things, and using a complicated model you can MAYBE get something somewhat accurate (I used a medical-grade continuous blood pressure measurement device called the Finapress as a gold standard reference). The ECG/PPG technique was rough though honestly and not something you'd wanna trust if you even so much as breathe heavily.

@ThePrufessa

Жыл бұрын

@@Masalmeh321 can these lights detect how much alcohol is in the blood?

@Masalmeh321

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePrufessa wasn't my focus at the time but Google scholar shows that some work was done on this! The slope of the PPG graph seems to change before and after alcohol consumption so using that fact, 80%+ accuracy was achieved in computing BAC (blood alcohol content). Interesting stuff indeed.

I thought it was interesting, I had a phone app *YEARS* ago that would detect your heart rate based on video - long before the Apple Watch or Fitbit existed. Comparing to an actual real medical-grade heart rate monitor, it was extremely accurate. I have to imagine it used similar processing to this.

@danfr

Жыл бұрын

You can still do that today in Google Fit even without buying a smartwatch.

@tams805

Жыл бұрын

Samsung did a bit of a better job of that with the Note 4/Note Edge, which had an infra-red sensor on the back. It was faff though, just like those apps that use normal camera sensors, so not worth doing.

@mrbouncelol

Жыл бұрын

Legend has it that ancient man developed the closely guarded secret technique of feeling one's wrist

@SahilP2648

Жыл бұрын

@@danfr yes but using your phone's camera plus the torch is different than what the guy is describing and this video because there's a lot of difference in accuracy in both scenarios.

@SahilP2648

Жыл бұрын

@@tams805 no it does work. It's as good as your smartwatch but it won't monitor it continuously obviously unless you want to press your phone against your finger all the time.

This was really interesting, and also explained to me why the pulse ox meter is not accurate in cases of CO poisoning. Red bloodcells with CO bound are still red, that's why people suffering from CO poisoning don't look like they are suffocating, they have perfectly healty looking skin tones.

The banter at the end of this was really enjoyable

One correction for you Steve, for pulse Ox, the sensing still requires the ambient light measurement. The ambient component needs to be removed from the red and IR because it can induce a signal into the red and IR sensors when the environment is bright enough. It's also used as a way to offset the red and IR signals when near saturation and used to detect dark room environments vs bright room environments. Some sensors automatically remove the ambient component and don't report it, but it is still needed for proper measurement.

Super cool video! One note if people are curious, the change in heart rate with breathing is known as respirophasic sinus arrhythmia. It is regulated by baroreceptors, so when you inhale, the negative pressure decreases the signaling from these receptors to the brain, which is similar to a low arterial pressure signal, which activates the sympathetic response and speeds up your heart rate to compensate. When you exhale, your thoracic pressure increases, which increases the baroreceptor signaling and increases the parasympathetic response to decrease your heart rate.

@DrAndrewSteele

Жыл бұрын

This is totally what I meant to say (Anatomy and physiology are amazing! I wish I knew some more. :) )

@marky5493

Жыл бұрын

That's super interesting, so if you had to get inflammation say, in the chest wall for exzample would that effect the breathing rate solely through the strength of signal or rather by the pain experienced and so changing your breathing differently? How does your resting heart rate change then when u excersise more? Is it related to your fat content also changing the signal. I'm not a docter, but I find these things super, super intresting and I'm always looking for more knowdagble people reasons:)

This is one of those few videos you come across that you feel genuinely deserves a like button. Extremely well done, very informative, learned a lot of new things about biometrics and data analysis

Your video amplification presentation was fascinating but this is something else.

Ooooh. I've worked with some biosignal stuff before, and have been curious if this was possible too. Also fun fact, you can get the respiration directly from a PPG signal (instead of the heart rate variability) using a bandpass filter that removes the higher frequencies from the heartbeat. It works surprisingly well, though the sensor has to stay pretty still for it to work.

7:04 I love the axes. 🤣

I have one of those athlete sport watches that can measure HR and sPO2 24/7 and I never knew exactly how they worked before. I had no idea that watching this video would be so informative. Thanks!

Thanks for letting us know a little of what technology we have on our wrists

@goku445

2 ай бұрын

That's way too much data to trust a connected device.

I get so excited when I see you have a new video posted. The things you talk about are just so interesting and well explained. Thanks for all the work you put into this.

The amount of complexity, calculations, adaptation to variations and ingenuity on "crossed scientific branches" in a single device is ... striking, totally awesome and inspiring! I wish to know more, even the mathematics behind it! LOVELY

11:47. This would be the happiest moment to a father that loves science and wants his kids to experience it's beauty. I want to feel this happy when I become a father.

When I hold my breath, I always figured my heartrate would go down because it has access to a lot of oxygen. but i couldnt figure out why it would go up instead. but having less space makes a lot of sense!

@CubicSpline707

Жыл бұрын

Here's a thing: My heart rate drops significantly when I hold my breath. This was observed by a doctor many years ago, and he commented that this phenomenon is common in infants. But they "grow" out of it as they reach adolescence apparently. He told me that I have kept the infant behavior (nothing to worry about), but interesting. BTW, I am over 50.

@idontwantahandlethough

Жыл бұрын

@@CubicSpline707 Weird!

@GlacialScion

Жыл бұрын

@@CubicSpline707 I think that's probably from taking a deep enough breath to stimulate the Vagus nerve.

@cavemann_

Жыл бұрын

@@CubicSpline707 That's so cool! You must be really good at holding your breath underwater.

@MikkoRantalainen

Жыл бұрын

I think the heartrate will go up with CO2 in your blood. When you hold your breath, the CO2 concentration will obviously go up.

9:37 Thanks, this will haunt my worst nightmares now

@Wombat627

Жыл бұрын

If it illuminated the blood vessels, i would have just Thanos snap myself then and there.

@Tarika916

26 күн бұрын

Someone needs to make this a creepy pasta

I saw a very similar use of color change amplification to measure pulse about 10 years ago, the code was written by some grad students for a computer vision class.

Human ingenuity is so fascinating. Another great video, steve!

I love how you meet up with other smart people to do all these interesting stuff i could never even understand

2:44 love the voyager plaque on the back of the laptop

Most fascinating video I have seen in some time. As someone who has worked in a refinery if loved the scene of the piping and pump. Most likely their is an application for analysis equipment failure. Great job Andrew on the Python Code.

Fun fact: you can see your heart beats by color changes in your own visual field. Easiest if looking at a white background, takes some attention and the ability to keep your gaze steady for a while.

About the color strength, have you ever thought about bayermatrix? Since regular cameras are often tuned with one extra green pixel over red and blue(RGGB). In astrophotography we usually remove green noise due to this. And this is also a reason why we instead use mono cameras to make use of ALL pixel from chip.

Finally, thank you. I sort of had an idea how it works but you really clarified it

It made me so happy to see R being used for cool novel ideas like this. Great video!

1:08 Red lights and invisible (IR) lights are used in pulse oximeters to measure blood oxygen.

I was always wonder why my heart beats slightly faster when I breathe in.. thank you for this and all the other explanations! You both are great together!

One of the best video I watched on YT !!! Thanks Steve & Andrew ❤

Those may have been the funniest outtakes I've seen in a long time, thank you for including them!

Hearing that the heart speeds up during a breath taken in explains so much! For years whenever I'd listen to my dog's heart (either dog) I noticed that every time he/she took a breath, there would be about 3 heartbeats quickly in the same space of time they had a single heartbeat when not taking a breath. Cool info!

@goku445

2 ай бұрын

Easy to see if you hold your breath.

I had a Fitbit I wore for a few years that was recalled (and they refunded 100% even though it was a few years old) that Fitbit claimed had battery issues where it could get hot and burn the user. Well mine never got hot, and I only wore it during the daytime when I was awake, never at night sleeping. The first year or so, no problems at all, but about 6 months before the recall I developed this lump directly on my arm directly underneath the fitbit that looked like a RF radiation burn. The reason I said that, was because back in the 1980's I worked on 2-way radio transmitters and occasionally would accidently bump up against an antenna that was transmitting and would get burns under my skin. It isn't a burn by surface heat but deep heating due to absorption of RF energy by the living tissues underneath. Since the surface of the skin is relatively dry it isn't harmed but the living tissue under the skin suffers damage causing a deep sore, which takes a while to heal. I had this same strange occurance so I stopped wearing the fitbit and after 3 or 4 months, the lump started oozing pus for a month or so, then finally healed up and went away. There were some articles that claim it was cancer, but I really don't feel it was that, but if my guess is correct, I'm guessing a glitch caused the one of those high energy diodes to get stuck on (which also could explain the battery overheating issue Fitbit mentioned) and radiating the tissue underneath causing a nasty radiation burn. Regardless, I realize nothing is perfect, crap happens, and I feel the benefit of smart watches still outweighs the potential risk of new technology possibly malfunctioning as I think mine may have done (I have no proof that is what truly happened but clearly something was weird was going on) and they will save way more lives as the technology is perfected.

@SunilKumar-nf7ft

Жыл бұрын

I was using samsung watch 3 for a few months and I used to wear it during the day and also while sleeping. I had the continuous measurement turned on so the green light was on all the time. I started noticing some kind of a spot right underneath the light, it wasn't causing any issues but it was kind of itchy and looked different. I stopped wearing the watch all the time and it went away.

@sdlion7287

Жыл бұрын

or it might have been an allergy or a reaction to some compound formed in the metal contacts (charging pins)... or just an ant/spider. Sunlight is far stronger than these red/ir/green LEDs, and yes, the sun is shining also in red/ir/green light (and lower and higher). Even talking about sunscreen to avoid sunburns: it only blocks very high frequency light, ultraviolet. How do you we know? because we can see the original skin color beneath the sunscreen (you can see UV cameras youtube videos to see how effective they are at blocking UV). And well those are not high energy diodes. I guess you have in mind the high *power* diodes used for emitting/rectifying RF, but you would know the comparatively high power you were using for transmission vs the dozens of mW that a LED dissipates (and you know power dissipation is not the same as power output).

@TurpInTexas

Жыл бұрын

@Sdlion while anything is possible the problem with your theory is the skin surface was fine, the issue was deeper under the surface of the skin like it had been irradiated.

@sdlion7287

Жыл бұрын

@@TurpInTexas like getting a splinter? I mean, that sounds as nothing out of the ordinary. Might not be the most common of irritation / infection, but certainly something that we all some times experience in our life, with or without a bio smart watch . And there's no theory in correcting that is not a high power/energy led... you can literally search for the datasheet of the led drivers those devices use and the leds they use. And you worked with RF you should know the power relation and the safety rules regarding power RF devices.

@amyalewine

Жыл бұрын

@@sdlion7287 Sun is the best medicine on the planet. They have lied and programmed people to put on sun glasses that stop light from entering the eyes. Also sunblock causes cancer not the Sun. The Sun can cause damage if you allow it to burn your skin. Otherwise it is the best medicine that our Western medical system has lied to everyone about.

That picture where the Infrared shines through your body is AMAZING!!!

I JUST got a watch like that. So timely Mr Mould. Thank you.

Hey this is exactly what my startup does! The technique is called rPPG, which is remote PPG, or photoplethysmography, which is what the Apple Watch is based on. Super stoked you've decided to showcase this in your video!

@GadgetBoy

Жыл бұрын

@@steve_mould. Feck off, scammer.

@Manic97LP

Жыл бұрын

What is the name of your startup, and when will your software be available? :D

I really appreciate how you break your videos down. You make science approachable, fun and cool. Thanks!

Lol, the outtakes at the end was brilliant. The banter between you pair was hilarious 😂

Awesome video. Love having a smart watch and always wondered about the green vs red light and how it actually worked.

Great episode. I recently bought a smart watch that was having trouble reading some of my vitals. Now that I know the science behind the sensors I realize my $18 watch may not be the value I thought it was. Also, that KiwiCo stuff makes me want to be 8 years old again!

I really loved the Axis labels here. One is definitely 'absorbance at a given frequency of light' the other is 'time I guess'. :D

As a person with a complicated cardiovascular condition this had given me some great insight into how some devices work and how the medical system can monitor and maintain my current physiology. I have a condition called HLHS.

I have absorbed so much of the information you have distributed through your videos. Such a wide array of knowledge that I will surely pass on to my son.

I already knew how the sensors worked but your video still made it fascinating. Very well illustrated and some great footage. Too bad we didn't get the IR view motion-amplified as well!

Let's get this working on videos of politicians lying when asked certain questions. No seriously. Let's.

Thank you for the related video!!! I returned a smart watch because it was terrible at tracking heart rate but I'm now using a better one. This is still great info to learn as I'm within the return window.

I learned a lot from this video about how things work and what they can be used for! That's so cool!

I always assumed the reason your heart pumped harder when you breathe in is that it just got a bunch of oxygen and needs to deliver it. Turns out i was proved wrong. Thank you for the cool information, and awesome video!

@bosstowndynamics5488

5 ай бұрын

They actually got that backwards - your heart pumps harder and *slower* on breathing in because you chest expands, which doesn't just suck in air but it also sucks blood in from the rest of your body into the heart, meaning each heart beat pumps more blood so it can go slower

I think I saw something similar a couple of years ago, but it was more nefarious, like using that same detection of the change of colour of the face due to blood pulse for spying.

This channel definitely deserves more recognition

I often thought it must be motion amplification via phase difference of light wavelengths, but boy this was mind blowing. I really could use this information.

7:09 I did have a good laugh. Well, they always tell you that YOU MUST have labels on your axis. Yours make perfect sense. I am going to borrow this. I have an electrical consumption graph (a non zero derivative) that is "meant" to be viewed over 24 hours with window sizes of 1 hour. So it's units are kwh/h ... but if you zoom in or out it starts reading in units of -\_(:-))_/-

9:18 the smartwatch is actually seeing a *two* pixel image, where it's using the difference between those pixels for interference compensation.

I love your videos. You break things down so well. Any other person's video would be twice as long with unnecessary fluff

I like how he went to infants in a hospital as a potential avenue for this kind of tech. I could also see this kind of tech (after some levels of advancement mind you) being used at security check points like airports/customs to see who's heart rate starts to get elevated as they get closer to the check point, or maybe just have random officers walking around to see someone who just got their luggage if their heart rate gets elevated although you have to be very careful about that.

@dylan-5287

Жыл бұрын

The last thing we need is more security theater at airports.

@Mike__B

Жыл бұрын

@@dylan-5287 Well what you want and what we get are bound to be two separate things. I don't want to take my shoes off at the security check-in either but thanks to some dude stuffing some explosives in his shoes now we all have to do that. Thank god he didn't try to stuff the explosives in his "prison wallet" I'd never fly again if they put us through that level of scrutiny.

I think the flash green light could also be energy saving, as you just need a few samples per second the deduce the hear rate.

@vappyreon1176

Жыл бұрын

Turning something on and off rapidly doesn't save much energy, and in some cases uses more. Especially with a tiny led

@JasonRennieWTF

Жыл бұрын

@@vappyreon1176 that’s not correct

@vappyreon1176

Жыл бұрын

@@JasonRennieWTF clock chips draw power, and it's literally a tiny led. Idk if you're new to LEDs but they're pretty light on power draw all things considered

@tristanwegner

Жыл бұрын

@@vappyreon1176 That is not true at all. LEDs are typically dimmed by pulse width modulation - turning them on and off very quickly. And it saves power proportional to the reduced light output.

This is an unexpectedly quick answer to a question I have had for a really short time and I'm amazed with how this all works

The fact that your smartwatch is seeing all of this information and transmitting it back to its parent company is truly terrifying. Why do people willingly give this to tech giants?

One of the problems I have with the wristwatch optical sensors vs the electrical chest sensors is that while I'm trail running, unless the watch is uncomfortably tight to my wrist, the amount of signal processing to extract the heartrate from the constant rhythmic jostling of the optics against my wrist is going to yield a pretty rough guess polluted with rapid movement (low frequency noise, coherent to a heartbeat's bandwidth), whereas the chest strap, is relying on a more consistent electrical capacitance undulation despite vibration. Wavelet conformity during periods of high activity is easier to pull from the electrical measurement whereas you can induce perceived arrhythmia within the data of a bouncing optical sensor.

@tams805

Жыл бұрын

It's best to just continue using an ECG chest strap. Really, it's always best to use one if you care about accuracy. As long as it's kept adequately lubricated. The only time it's really an issue is when swimming, especially pool swimming (well, and obviously high diving).

@placebomessiah

Жыл бұрын

@@tams805 oya hard to get a pulse when the strap is around ur ankles

What people really wanted was a watch that could measure blood sugar. The GlucoWatch accomplished this by running a weak electric current through your skin, calibrating against a finger stick, and then using changes in the current to estimate changes to the glucose concentration of the interstitial fluid in real time (a proxy for blood glucose). Too bad it hurt and never really worked well.

@fortheloveofdavis9577

Жыл бұрын

That would've been amazing to have back when I was having to finger prick every 4 hours! I've felt low electric currents before, and while a bit uncomfortable, I think I'd rather have dealt with that than finger pricks. But that's just an assumption based off of my time doing finger pricks and never having tried the device mentioned. Cool in theory however!

I've allways wondered how these devices work. Thank you.

High quality information 🥸 Thanks Steve!

I'm not sure your heart has less room to beat when inhaling, since you're lungs only follow the pressure changes in your chest, not drive them. Also not a doctor, but I've been curious about this before and asked them, the answer is usually 'I unno'

Hi @Steve Mould, please can you put warnings up before flashing lights (e.g. 5:35) in future? Thanks!

I had no idea. That is insanely clever.

This video was very illuminating. Thank you!

8:36 Will the ups and downs of the infra red line be reversed as compared to the red line?

Okey so this is actually kind of funny. I tend to have anxiety attacks from time to time and I’ve learn yo recognize them quite easily, to the point where I calm myself by just realize it’s a panic attack (and I’m not in any actual danger), except for yesterday where I had my biggest anxiety attack I’ve had in my life, where I even started to hyperventilate pretty badly. After a while I managed to calm down and breath semi normally again, and I started thinking that I should buy a pulse oximeter to be able to show my brain that it’s just a anxiety attack. The point is, I started to wonder how they worked and how they could measure the oxygen in the blood, and just as I was wondering that, scrolling though KZread (to distract myself), this video popped up. I didn’t watching then because I was scared to even think about breathing and oxygen and all of that, but yeah, what a coincidence 😂

Wow that IR camera + torch view is coool!

Steve is the most serious and goofy person I know 🤣 I'm glad that I discovered this channel from Smarter Everyday

Great video, although there has been a lot recently about this not working so reliably for people with darker skin. It would be interested to learn more about how it can be just as reliable in such cases.

I wonder if this works just as well with people that have darker skin. There is already a known issue with pulseoxes that are less accurate if you have darker skin.

@drasco61084

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say the same exact thing surprised hardly anyone else noticed no mention of that....

One of the best episode with really interesting topic.

That was truly fascinating! Thank you!! (I'm digging the camera gear also!)

Wouldn't the infrared go down when the red light goes up if they react oppositely to the amount of oxygen in blood (i.e. there would be an intrinsic "phase" difference in the curves at about 8:20)?

@acakeshapedlikeatrainonatable

Жыл бұрын

I thought the infrared would be antiphase too

@Br3ttM

Жыл бұрын

I think it's the amount of blood in the vessels that causes that periodic change, and the change due to oxygen concentration is less obvious until you do the math to extract that data from the ratio.

My physics teacher is yelling at you for the axis labels! XD nice!

6:03 I always wondered if that was the explanation ; thanks for clarifying!

Thank you for the units on the graph

Shared the video with a friend (You're welcome! 😉). He had a good comment. If you folks can do this, then people doing surveillance can do it too. I'm picturing camera's all over an airport just looking for people who's pulse rates seem a bit too high... Or any port of entry, while the Border Agent is asking "Purpose of your visit?" and the AI is staring at your face to see if you get especially nervous.

❗ 0:05 How can I get this software to work. I tried it but only got errors and gave up. Is there a good tutorial somewhere?

Yet more quality content. Thank you, sir.

Is it okay to say that your videos gives me goosebumps every time.

film everyone and findout who are aliens

"Reflected back"? Why not just "reflected"? Doesn't that already imply a "back"?

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Thank you for this. I've been waiting so long

The main reason why the green LED flashes is to save battery, that significantly increases battery life of the smartwatch. That's also the reason why these LEDs will only flash when the smartwatch senses movement, otherwise it just assumes it's not being used and enters battery saving mode. They can get away with the flashing because our heart rate is super slow when compared to the speeds at which the embedded electronics are capable of running at, so they can sample a few times a second as opposed to constantly reading the heart rate sensor input.

It's good to remember that these optics-based detection methods are often calibrated based on lighter skin tones- for example, people of color can show oxygen saturation levels that are erroneously high. More work needs to be done to make medical equipment work for everyone!

@tams805

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Just to be clear, none of the gadgets used here (even the Polar H10 - though that is very accurate) are medical equipment. Well, the stethoscope is, I guess.

The reasoning on depth of wavelength is true, this is why you would use IR for deeper tissue imaging. However there is a potential in the case of blood it is actually to do with its auto-fluorescent properties, which for red blood cells are far higher in around the 450-550nm wavelength than others in the visible spectrum, it depends on what the sensor is actually detecting.

One of the most interesting videos that have popped up on my recommended in a while.

3:09 So red goes deep under the skin, and blue doesn't? But why than X-rays can go very through the tissue? red - goes deep blue - doesn't go deep ultraviolet - goes deep again?

@prajjwalmalviya

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Could've been something related to wavelength. Wavelength of blue would have been equal to that of particles from which it is bouncing off. But the red and uv have unequal so they pierce in.

@yura2424

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@@prajjwalmalviya I see, so there is an absorption optimum. And everything below or above it penetrates skin