Publications by authors named "Rajesh Balan"
Article Synopsis
- The paper investigates the factors affecting depressive symptoms in middle-aged and elderly individuals, focusing on demographics, socioeconomics, physical health, lifestyle, and loneliness using machine learning techniques.
- A total of 976 participants aged 50 and above contributed data and activity logs, which were analyzed to identify key predictors of depression.
- Logistic Regression was found to be the most effective model, highlighting loneliness, health indicators, activity time, and perceived income as significant predictors for depression in this age group.
Remote Multi-Person Heart Rate Monitoring with Smart Speakers: Overcoming Separation Constraint.
Sensors (Basel)
January 2024
Heart rate is a key vital sign that can be used to understand an individual's health condition. Recently, remote sensing techniques, especially acoustic-based sensing, have received increasing attention for their ability to non-invasively detect heart rate via commercial mobile devices such as smartphones and smart speakers. However, due to signal interference, existing methods have primarily focused on monitoring a single user and required a large separation between them when monitoring multiple people.
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