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Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive optical sensing technique widely used to capture hemodynamic information, with broad deployment in both clinical monitoring systems and wearable devices. In recent years, the…

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart rate measurement from facial videos, but its performance is significantly degraded by facial motions such as speaking and head shaking. To address this issue, we propose two…

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Subtle periodic signals such as blood volume pulse and respiration can be extracted from RGB video, enabling remote health monitoring at low cost. Advancements in remote pulse estimation -- or remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) -- are…

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Photoplethysmographic imaging is a camera-based solution for non-contact cardiovascular monitoring from a distance. This technology enables monitoring in situations where contact-based devices may be problematic or infeasible, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Robert Amelard , David A Clausi , Alexander Wong

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors allow for non-invasive and comfortable heart-rate (HR) monitoring, suitable for compact wrist-worn devices. Unfortunately, Motion Artifacts (MAs) severely impact the monitoring accuracy, causing high…

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal-based blood pressure (BP) estimation is a promising candidate for modern BP measurements, as PPG signals can be easily obtained from wearable devices in a non-invasive manner, allowing quick BP measurement.…

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Sound cards, which count as standard equipment in today's computers, can be turned into measurement tools, making experimentation very efficient and cheap. The chief difficulties to overcome are the lack of proper hardware interfacing and…

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Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Ildar Rakhmatulin , Sebastian Volkl

In ultraviolet (UV) astronomical observations, photons from the sources are very few compared to the visible or infrared (IR) wavelength ranges. Detectors operating in the UV usually employ a photon-counting mode of operation. These…

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Photoacoustic imaging has emerged as a powerful, non-invasive modality for various biomedical applications. Conventional photoacoustic systems require contact-based ultrasound detection and expensive and bulky high-power lasers for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Emiel Dieussaert , Roel Baets , Hilde Jans , Xavier Rottenberg , Yanlu Li

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a camera to estimate a person's heart rate (HR). Similar to how heart rate can provide useful information about a person's vital signs, insights about the underlying physio/psychological conditions…

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Hypertension is a potentially unsafe health ailment, which can be indicated directly from the Blood pressure (BP). Hypertension always leads to other health complications. Continuous monitoring of BP is very important; however, cuff-based…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare). Existing rPPG approaches rely on analyzing very fine details of facial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Zitong Yu , Wei Peng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Guoying Zhao

We report on an experimental demonstration of surface acoustic waves monitoring on a thin metal plate with heterodyne optical holography. Narrowband imaging of local optical pathlength modulation is achieved with a frequency-tunable…

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The electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is one of the most vital signals that can be used to investigate the performance of heart. Based on the ECG graph, we can identify different disorders and diseases. Therefore, monitoring this signal is of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Soheil Khooyooz , Mohammad Ali Ahmadi-Pajouh , Kamyab Azizi

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare). Existing end-to-end rPPG and heart rate (HR) measurement methods from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Guoying Zhao

In this paper we present an electronic system to perform a non-invasive measurement of the blood pressure based on the oscillometric method, which does not suffer from the limitations of the well-known auscultatory one. Moreover the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Roberto Marani , Anna Gina Perri

We describe the characteristics of low-cost ultra-high-power light emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in optical imaging experiments. We use the LEDs in experiments with bullfrog cardiac tissue and find that the signal-to-noise ratio is…

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