pulse-estimator

how to use:

• must have python 3.7+ installed.
• git clone (or download and unzip this repo)

pip install -r requirements.txt
python get_pulse.py

That's it.

What is this project:

1. using OpenCV (cv2) and the well documented haarcascade model idetnify faces from attached webcam
2. estimate forehead location
3. extract optical absorption from forehead*
4. graph and estimate pulse

*Using optical absorption characteristics of (oxy-) haemoglobin ( https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-16-26-21434&id=175396) we estimate pulse.

this project is based off a multitude of sources, too many to list. So thanks internet ;) you are alwasy there for me.