New Heart Rate Monitor Takes Your Pulse Via Webcam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Study
MIT post-doctoral researchers Jackie Lee and Ming-Zher Poh, and Columbia doctorate graduate Yukkee Poh set out to make a health monitor device that allowed consumers to easily obtain information about their bodies. What they came up with was a platform that quickly delivers a consumer’s heart rate by using a camera to detect the minuscule changes in light that bounce of the face, which indicates pulse.