睡眠呼吸中止症是一種現代社會常見的疾病，患者的上呼吸道會在睡眠阻塞造
成呼吸暫停進而讓患者從睡眠中驚醒大大的降低睡眠品質、日常作息以及影響身體
健康。此種疾病診斷的方式通常得透過穿戴式設備甚至到睡眠醫療中心進行紀錄。而非接觸式的偵測方法往往無法精確分類出受測者做出的動作為呼吸行為或身體動
作。本研究提出了一種基於Wang et al.技術的改良式檢測呼吸異常以及事先診
斷睡眠呼吸中止症的的全自動紅外線影像監控技術。其中介紹了一種藉由呼吸訊
號來進行動作偵測的模型。只需要電腦以及視訊攝影機就能夠透過不須人為監督
的3D適應型模型來學習每個人的呼吸模式並將其睡覺時做出的動作加以分類為異常
呼吸活動或肢體運動。另外系統能夠先偵測環境亮度和對比度進行歸類以調整本身
的靈敏度和判定門檻值。而當系統開始檢測時，能夠計算出觀測目標的主要呼吸
區域以區分出主要觀測目標以及其背景。本技術讓受測者的受測位置不用受到限
制，不論是背對鏡頭、側睡、使用棉被遮擋、或是背景有外物移動都不會干擾
偵測過程。受測者的強弱呼吸、使用胸部或腹部呼吸和拍攝角度也不會影響系統
判定，達到在熟悉的睡眠環境就能夠進行智慧型監測的效果。當系統發現受測者
呼吸行為發生異常時就能自動辨識並做出警示，讓患者家屬不用時時刻刻都需要
花費心力去注意觀測狀況。本研究於44個測試影片的328個事件中達到93%的正確
率。系統能夠從呼吸中止、微弱呼吸、嘴部呼吸、胸部呼吸、腹部呼吸、改
變睡姿、肢體移動、頭部轉動等事件分辨出該事件屬於異常呼吸行為或是身體動
作 。

This research presents a improved real-time automated infrared video monitoring technique based on Wang et al.'s approach~\cite{kopka} for detection of breathing anomalies, and its application in the diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. We introduce a novel motion model to detect subtle, cyclical
breathing signals from video, a new 3D unsupervised self-adaptive breathing template to learn individuals' normal breathing patterns online, and a robust action classification method to recognize abnormal breathing activities and limb movements. Also the system can detect the environment, classify them, and adjust the environment parameter by itself. When the system start detecting, it can calculate the main breathing region to recognize the subject from the background. This technique avoids imposing positional constraints on the patient, allowing patients to sleep on their back or side, with or without facing the camera, fully or partially occluded by the bed clothes and object moving in the background. Moreover, shallow and abdominal breathing patterns do not adversely affect the performance of the method, and it is insensitive to environmental settings such as infrared lighting levels and camera view angles. The experimental results show that the technique achieves high accuracy (93% for 44 data) in recognizing apnoea episodes and body movements and is robust to various occlusion levels, body
poses, body movements (i.e. minor head movement, limb movement, body rotation and slight torso movement), and breathing behavior (e.g. shallow versus heavy breathing, mouth breathing, chest breathing, abdominal breathing, and respiratory arrest).

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