Real-time communication for Kinect-based telerehabilitation |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, United States;2. Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain;1. Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics, Óbuda University, Bécsi út 96/b, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary;2. Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13–17., H-1111 Budapest, Hungary;3. Széchényi István University, Department of Informatics, Egyetem tér 1., H-9026 Gy?r, Hungary;1. ASELSAN Inc., Turkey;2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey |
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Abstract: | As chronic diseases and demographic changes alter the trends in world population, more pressure is put on health management to deal efficiently with a new scenario of longer life expectancy and chronic disabilities. Advances in telecommunication technology and miniaturization of sensors in combination with medical information technology provide a viable solution to reduce healthcare costs and deliver remote medical services through connected devices. Although remote consultation via video-conferencing has been well established, many of the chronic or long-term musculoskeletal conditions require pro-active management and therapy. There is a need to develop more advanced interactive telerehabilitation systems that support real-time remote delivery of physical therapy sessions into patients’ homes. In this paper, we introduce KinectRTC, an innovative framework that can be used for Kinect-based telerehabilitation with efficient real-time transmission of video, audio, depth, and skeletal data. By taking advantage of the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology, the proposed framework is able to manage video and audio streams based on the state of the network and the available bandwidth to guarantee the real-time performance of the communication. |
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Keywords: | WebRTC Kinect Telerehabilitation Real-time communication eHealth |
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