Title :
Thermal imaging for anxiety detection
Author :
Pavlidis, Ioannis ; Levine, James ; Baukol, Paulette
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
We propose a revolutionary concept for detecting suspects engaged in illegal and potentially harmful activities in or around critical military or civilian installations. We investigate the use of thermal image analysis to detect at a distance facial patterns of anxiety, alertness, and/or fearfulness. This is a totally novel approach to the problem of biometric identification. Instead of focusing on the question “who are you” we focus instead on the question “what are you about to do”. Documented preliminary results clearly indicate the feasibility of the idea
Keywords :
behavioural sciences; image classification; infrared imaging; alertness; anxiety detection; biometric identification; facial patterns; fearfulness; illegal activities; potentially harmful activities; suspects; thermal image analysis; thermal imaging; Biometrics; Blood flow; Cameras; Design for experiments; Face detection; Humans; Image analysis; Psychology; Temperature distribution; Temperature sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Methods and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Hilton Head, SC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0640-2
DOI :
10.1109/CVBVS.2000.855255