Experiments with a low-cost infrared camera to remotely monitor athlete runners

This paper reports on the initial experiments performed using a low-cost, commercial grade, infrared camera to remotely monitor athlete runners and detect temperature variations during the exercise. The initial findings highlight the challenges in using commercial grade instruments to extract scientific measurements from subjects. The paper also describes the techniques used to circumvent some of these challenges and enable the extraction of useful information from the collected images. Results obtained are compared against existing results using scientific grade infrared cameras.