I-Corps Team Proposal "Mini Signal"

I军团团队提案“迷你信号”

• 批准号: 1848835
• 负责人: Min Wu
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1848835&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Team; Proposal; Mini; Signal

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.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于三个方面：通过系统的客户发现过程，它增强了研发社区对无接触性生理监测的潜在广泛需求和应用空间的理解。对于该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视驾驶员的条件，以增强驾驶安全性，支持安全有效的运动/健身训练，从而提供监视视频中的其他分析以进行公共安全，以及更多。 I-Corps客户发现的结果将为新一轮的研发提供现实的要求和数据，并增强研发社区的科学和技术理解。 I-Corps的培训和经验将使团队为确定并铺平了一种通往商业化最有效的客户技术道路的方式，这将导致经济和社会影响。 培训还将为技术领导和共同领导者提供宝贵的见解，作为教职员工，他们可以将精益创业和创业思想纳入他们的未来教育和指导活动。这将在未来几年中扩大许多学生的好处。这项I-Corps项目基于无接触式感觉的研究进展，例如通过视频，以捕捉一个人的脸上的颜色变化，因为他/她的心脏会抽血以传达全身。 该团队已经开发了强大的专业知识，可以在许多情况下收获此类微观信号，并激励应用程序。从该I-Corps项目基于的专利研究中，即使在用户移动和照明条件变化的情况下，即使在大量运动下也可以实现准确的心率检测和跟踪，这在现实世界中很常见。 多个传统上分开的领域的协同作用，包括图像/视频处理，计算机视觉，统计信号处理和估算，铺平了基础来应对研发挑战。 从I-Corps计划中学到的方法是在重要的卫生分析新兴领域的微信号分析理论和实践之间的桥梁。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。

项目成果

Adaptive Multi-Trace Carving for Robust Frequency Tracking in Forensic Applications

• DOI: 10.1109/tifs.2020.3030182
• 发表时间: 2020-05
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• 影响因子: 6.8
• 作者: Qiang Zhu;Mingliang Chen;Chau-Wai Wong;Min Wu