Adaptive Real-Time PPG Signal Qualification and Pulse Segmentation

Ever since its invention in the 1930s, photoplethysmography (PPG) is a wide-spread technique used for health-monitoring. Via illumination of the human skin with a light source and capturing the light, an estimate of important physiological properties such as the heart rate can be made. This is commonly done with dedicated medical equipment, but...

OS evaluation for real time image processing on a multicore architecture

Traditionally embedded applications were limited to dedicated hardware with limited functionalities controlled by a microcontroller. With the advancement of technology and the rising needs embedded applications now run on Consumer off the shelf (COTS) products. Using general-purpose operating systems makes the development cycle for these...