Evolution of Facial Tissue Oxygen Saturation and Detection of Human Physical Stress

Abstract

Physical stress has a direct impact on human health, which makes the detection of physical stress necessary in daily life. In this paper, we extracted tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) by hyperspectral imaging to detect and distinguish physical stress from relaxation state remotely. During the physical stress experiment, we observed that the facial StO2 right after the stress can be either increased and decreased comparing to the baseline, the StO2 after two minutes recovered towards the baseline. This changes of StO2 is reported for the first time. Based on the findings, we also located some useful ROIs on face for the detection of human physical stress.