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Basic Study of an Evaluation that Uses the Center of Gravity of a Facial Thermal Image for the Estimation of Autonomic Nervous Activity

Authors:
Shogo Matsuno
Shunsuke Kosuge
Shunsuke Kawazura
Hirotoshi Asano
Naoaki Itakura
Tota Mizuno

Keywords: facial thermal image, nasal skin temperature, mental work load

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose using the temperature-centroid of a facial thermal image as a new index to evaluate the Mental Work Load (MWL). The existing evaluation methods using thermal images are non-contact mental-stress–evaluation methods that measure a change in the temperature of the regions around the nose, which is caused by MWL. However, automatic evaluation of mental load is difficult because identifying a part of the nose automatically from the thermograph is difficult. In this paper, we have focused on developing a solution to this problem that combines temperature with the coordinates of the thermal image.

Pages: 258 to 261

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-468-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016