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With the ongoing heart problems of the population worldwide, the medical requirements of the people are expected to increase. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the proven to capture the heart response signal to assess the electrical and…

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Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Despite the population of the noninvasive, economic, comfortable, and easy-to-install photoplethysmography (PPG), it is still lacking a mathematically rigorous and stable algorithm which is able to simultaneously extract from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Antonio Cicone , Hau-Tieng Wu

In recent years, research about monitoring vital signs by smartphones grows significantly. There are some special sensors like Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Photoplethysmographic (PPG) to detect heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Jafar Pourbemany , Almabrok Essa , Ye Zhu

Smartphone-based heart rate (HR) monitoring apps using finger-over-camera photoplethysmography (PPG) face significant challenges in performance evaluation and device compatibility due to device variability and fragmentation. Manual testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ming-Zher Poh , Jonathan Wang , Jonathan Hsu , Lawrence Cai , Eric Teasley , James A. Taylor , Jameson K. Rogers , Anupam Pathak , Shwetak Patel

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely adopted, non-invasive technique for monitoring cardiovascular health and physiological parameters in both consumer and clinical settings. While motion artifacts in dynamic environments have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Manh Pham Hung , Matthew Yiwen Ho , Yiming Zhang , Dimitris Spathis , Aaqib Saeed , Dong Ma

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a remotely placed camera to estimating 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Roelof Lochmans , Jan van Gemert

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive and economical technique to extract vital signs of the human body. Although it has been widely used in consumer and research grade wrist devices to track a user's physiology, the PPG signal is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Runyu Mao , Mackenzie Tweardy , Stephan W. Wegerich , Craig J. Goergen , George R. Wodicka , Fengqing Zhu

With the soaring adoption of in-ear wearables, the research community has started investigating suitable in-ear heart rate (HR) detection systems. HR is a key physiological marker of cardiovascular health and physical fitness. Continuous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kayla-Jade Butkow , Ting Dang , Andrea Ferlini , Dong Ma , Cecilia Mascolo

Wearables are widely used for mobile health monitoring, and photoplethysmography (PPG) is a key sensing modality for heart rate and related physiological measurements. However, public in-the-wild PPG datasets remain largely wrist-centric or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiayi Shao , Jiaying Ye , Shengyao Liu , Zachary Englhardt , Girish Narayanswamy , Vikram Iyer , Qiuyue Shirley Xue

Nowadays, Hearth Rate (HR) monitoring is a key feature of almost all wrist-worn devices exploiting photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors. However, arm movements affect the performance of PPG-based HR tracking. This issue is usually addressed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Panagiotis Kasnesis , Lazaros Toumanidis , Alessio Burrello , Christos Chatzigeorgiou , Charalampos Z. Patrikakis

Recent studies demonstrated that the average heart rate (HR) can be measured from facial videos based on non-contact remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). However for many medical applications (e.g., atrial fibrillation (AF) detection)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Wearable devices with photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors are widely used to monitor heart rate (HR), yet often suffer from accuracy issues. However, users typically do not receive an indication of potential measurement errors. We present a…

Respiratory ailments such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, and lung cancer are life-threatening. Respiration rate (RR) is a vital indicator of the wellness of a patient. Continuous monitoring of RR can…

Today's fitness bands and smartwatches typically track heart rates (HR) using optical sensors. Large behavioral studies such as the UK Biobank use activity trackers without such optical sensors and thus lack HR data, which could reveal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Max Moebus , Lars Hauptmann , Nicolas Kopp , Berken Demirel , Björn Braun , Christian Holz

Sleep monitoring provides valuable insights into the general health of an individual and helps in the diagnostic of sleep-derived illnesses. Polysomnography, is considered the gold standard for such task. However, it is very unwieldy and…

Opto-physiological monitoring including photoplethysmography (PPG) provides non-invasive cardiac and respiratory measurements, yet motion artefacts (MAs) during physical activity degrade its signal quality and downstream estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Xiaoyu Zheng , Sijung Hu , Vincent Dwyer , Mahsa Derakhshani , Laura Barrett

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technology that measures changes in blood volume in the microvascular bed of tissue. It is commonly used in medical devices such as pulse oximeters and wrist worn heart rate monitors to monitor…

A photoplethysmography (PPG) is an uncomplicated and inexpensive optical technique widely used in the healthcare domain to extract valuable health-related information, e.g., heart rate variability, blood pressure, and respiration rate. PPG…