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heart rate and blood pressure to the contactless mea-
surement procedure. Thereby, the focus should not
be solely on COVID-19 but as well on other diseases
with different symptoms. Furthermore, we intend
to expand our idea of a remote respiration rate de-
termination to other application areas such as access
control to buildings and public transport, assistance
robots and recovery monitoring.
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