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by Amelia Scott — 4 years ago in Future < 1 min. read
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Google announced today that it’s adding AI-powered measurements of heart and respiration rates to the Google Fit app.

The tech uses a combination of sensors and computer vision algorithms to take measurements through a smartphone camera.

The Big G stated the attributes will soon be available from next month on Pixel telephones, with much more Android apparatus to follow.
Also read: 10 Best Chrome Extensions For 2021 Users will then have the ability to quantify their breathing speed by putting their head and upper chest in light of the cellphone’s front-facing camera.

Their heart rate is going to be estimated by placing a finger over the rear-facing lens. Users may then choose to store the results in the program to track how they change over time.

Shwetak Patel, Manager of Wellness Technology at Google Health, compared the Strategy to Some fingertip pulse oximeter:

The way this works is that as the heart is beating, the amount of blood getting to the fingertip changes and it’s related to your heartbeat. But recent advances in mobile phone cameras and computer vision algorithms allow us to see even the most imperceptible movements and color changes that happen on the human body. So instead of just looking at the fingertip you can look at the face and detect that small change in color that tells you what your heart rate is. Similarly, the small movements related to your breathing can also be detected with these algorithms.

Patel said the calculations are tested on people who have a wide assortment of ages, sexes, skin colours, wellness statues and under many different lighting conditions.

Early research results shared in a Google Health event now revealed the respiration algorithm is more true within a breath per second on average, whereas the heartbeat algorithm is exact within 2% normally.

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