Motion Capture Quantification of User Variation in Topical Microparticle Application.

Motion capture has the potential to shed light on topical drug delivery application. This approach holds promise both as a training tool, and for the development of skin technology, but first, this approach requires validation. Elongated microparticles (EMP) are a physical delivery enhancement technology that relies on a user working in the microparticles using a textured applicator.

Considerations of handheld respiratory rate estimation via a stabilized Video Magnification approach.

Respiratory rate can be a vital indicator of illness; however, tracking this is a non-trivial process. Phase-based Eulerian Video Magnification (EVM) is an exciting spatiotemporal video processing approach able to reveal subtle breathing motions within video sequences; however, its results are variant to large motions and camera blur. In the case of camera motion, a compensation strategy of stabilizing (without smoothing) the video has the may reduce estimation error in handheld cases.