Measurement of Sleep and Understanding of Sleep Apnea in Video

Abstract

A person sleeps a third of his or her life, which means that a person sleeps seven or eight hours a day. However, many people suffer from disturbed sleep. In this paper, we try to segment a video into shots using the method of Bhattacharyya Distance. After analyzing these segmented shots, we decide a movement during sleep. We also try to record all the breath from the beginning of the sleep to the ending of the sleep. In the recorded voice, we extract a part of sleep apnea and a part of heavy panting. Sleep apnea is a phenomenon wherein breath stops from 30 seconds to 1 minute and 30 seconds while sleeping. This phenomenon has been known to kill a person from time to time. This sleep apnea causes abrupt heavy panting after no breathing over a period of time. We expect that our research will pave the road to efficiently and effectively judging sleep apnea without specific equipment.