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Heart rate measurement from webcam or video

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Introduction
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Face detection and tracking are used to observe the tiny variations
in skin tone that result from the increased bloodflow after a heart beat.
By averaging, filtering and Fourier-transforming these variations the heart
rate is estimated and graphed.

Multiple persons in the scene can be analysed simultanuously.

Installation
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pip3 install heartwave

Usage
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heartwave [optional filename, URL or camera ID]

Links
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`webcam-pulse-detector <https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector`_:
Python program similar to this one.

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