Using Heat Plumes in Controlled Breathing as Non-Contact Assistive Technology

The investigators will design a system that uses an infrared camera to record the heat plumes associated with different breathing patterns in controlled experiments and then develop computer algorithms to process and characterize these heat plumes. To accomplish this processing, the recorded heat plumes will be sampled to capture the temporal and spatial information contained in the heat plume. The investigators will then design an artificial neural network to process these samples and train it to recognize controlled and normal breathing patterns. The controlled heat plumes will then be associated with a unique vocabulary for each individual. These ANN designs will then be tested against a broad range of conditions.T