I-Corps Team Proposal "Mini Signal"

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于三个方面：通过一个系统的客户发现过程，它加强了研发社区对非接触式生理监测潜在的广泛需求和应用空间的理解。对于i-Corps项目所基于的强大的心率跟踪技术，潜在的商业影响包括监控司机的状况以提高驾驶安全，支持安全有效的运动/健身训练，为公共安全提供更多来自监控视频的分析，等等。I-Corps客户发现的结果将为新一轮研发提供现实世界的要求和数据，并增强研发界的科学和技术理解。I-Corps的培训和经验将使团队做好准备，以确定并铺平一条通往最有效的客户技术商业化道路的道路，这将产生经济和社会影响。培训还将为技术主管和联合主管提供有价值的见解，他们作为教职员工可能会将精益创业和创业思维纳入他们未来的教育和指导活动中。这将在未来几年惠及许多学生。这个i-Corps项目建立在非接触感觉的研究进展基础上，例如通过视频，捕捉一个人在心脏泵血到达全身时面部非常微小的颜色变化。该团队已经开发出强大的专业知识，可以在许多场景和激励性应用中获取此类微信号。根据这个i-Corps项目所基于的正在申请专利的研究，即使在用户移动和照明条件变化的重大运动下，也可以实现准确的心率检测和跟踪，这在现实世界的使用中是常见的。包括图像/视频处理、计算机视觉、统计信号处理和估计在内的多个传统上相互独立的领域的协同作用，为应对研发挑战奠定了基础。从i-Corps计划中学到的方法是在健康分析的重要新兴领域中微信号分析的理论和实践之间的桥梁。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project lies in three aspects: through a systematic customer discovery process, it enhances the R&D community's understanding of the potentially broad needs and application spaces of the contact-less physiological monitoring. For the robust heart-rate tracking technologies that this I-Corps project is based on, the potential commercial impact includes monitoring drivers' conditions to enhance driving safety, supporting safe and effective athletic/fitness training, offering additional analytics from surveillance video for public safety, and more. The outcome of the I-Corps customer discovery will provide real-world requirements and data to a new round of R&D and enhance the R&D community's scientific and technological understanding. The I-Corps training and experience will prepare the Team to identify and pave a way to the most effective customer-technology path for commercialization, which will lead to an economic and societal impact. The training would also provide valuable insights to the Technical Lead and Co-Lead, who as faculty members can potentially incorporate the Lean Startup and entrepreneurial thinking into their future education and mentoring activities. This would extend the benefits to many students in the years to come.This I-Corps project builds on the research advances of contact-free sensings, such as through video, to capture the very small color changes of a person's face as his/her heart pumps blood to reach the whole body. The team has developed a strong expertise to harvest such micro signals under a number of scenarios and motivating applications. From the patent-pending research on which this I-Corps project is based, accurate heart rate detection and tracking have been achieved even under significant motion as users move and lighting conditions change, which is common in real-world use. The synergy of multiple traditionally separate fields, including image/video processing, computer vision, statistical signal processing and estimation, paved a foundation to address the R&D challenges. The methodologies learned from the I-Corps program serve as a bridge between the theory and practice of micro signal analytics in the important emerging area of health analytics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.