Guest Editorial: Camera-Based Monitoring for Pervasive Healthcare Informatics

The papers in this special section focus on camera-based monitoring for pervasive healthcare informatics. Measuring physiological signals from the human face and body using video cameras is an emerging research topic that has grown rapidly last decade. Remote (in both visible infrared wavelengths) can be used to measure vital signs a based skin optics or movements thereby avoiding mechanical contact with skin. Camera-based health will bring rich set of compelling applications directly improve upon contact-based solutions impact people’s care experience quality life various scenarios, such as hospital units, sleep/senior centers, assisted-living homes, telemedicine e-health, baby/elderly at home, fitness sports, driver automotive applications, cardiac/ respiratory gating MRI/CT, AR/VR therapy clinical training, e