The landscape of healthcare has increasingly been defined by a rise in patients with chronic illnesses and changing patterns of service use, and by government cuts in health and social care budgets. Technologies for telehealth, telecare and telemedicine have existed for over forty years and have often been presented as heralding a new era of healthcare, in which access to services and personali...

The landscape of healthcare has increasingly been defined by a rise in patients with chronic illnesses, changing patterns of service use, and by government cuts in health and social care budgets. Technologies for telehealth, telecare and telemedicine have existed for over forty years and have often been presented as heralding a new era of healthcare, in which access to services and personalised...

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 co...