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The growing integration of smart environments and low-power computing devices, coupled with mass-market sensor technologies, is driving advancements in remote and non-contact physiological monitoring. However, deploying these systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Sasan Sharifipour , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Nhi Nguyen , Le Nguyen , Miguel Bordallo López

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearable health monitoring, yet large PPG foundation models remain difficult to deploy on resource-limited devices. We present PPG-Distill, a knowledge distillation framework that transfers both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Juntong Ni , Saurabh Kataria , Shengpu Tang , Carl Yang , Xiao Hu , Wei Jin

Video photoplethysmography (vPPG) is an emerging method for non-invasive and convenient measurement of physiological signals, utilizing two primary approaches: remote video PPG (rPPG) and contact video PPG (cPPG). Monitoring vitals in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ke Liu , Jiankai Tang , Zhang Jiang , Yuntao Wang , Xiaojing Liu , Dong Li , Yuanchun Shi

Biometric authentication using physiological signals offers a promising path toward secure and user-friendly access control in wearable devices. While electrocardiogram (ECG) signals have shown high discriminability, their intrusive sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Wei Shao , Zequan Liang , Ruoyu Zhang , Ruijie Fang , Ning Miao , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun , Chongzhou Fang

Camera-based monitoring of vital signs, also known as imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG), has seen applications in driver-monitoring, perfusion assessment in surgical settings, affective computing, and more. iPPG involves sensing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R Shenoy , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour , Rama Chellappa , Tim K. Marks

Imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) can be used for heart rate monitoring during driving, which is expected to reduce traffic accidents by continuously assessing drivers' physical condition. Deep learning-based iPPG methods using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Yuqi Tu , Shakith Fernando , Mark van Gastel

As smart wearable devices become increasingly powerful and pervasive, protecting user privacy on these devices has emerged as a critical challenge. While existing authentication mechanisms are available for interaction-rich devices such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Liu , Jiankai Tang , Guangye Zhao , Ruichen Gui , Songqin Cheng , Taiting Lu , Jian Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Mahanth Gowda , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a method for measuring a subjects heart rate remotely using a camera. Factors such as subject movement, ambient light level, makeup etc. complicate such measurements by distorting the observed pulse.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alexey Protopopov

Smartwatches have become popular for monitoring physiological parameters outside clinical settings. Using reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors, such watches can non-invasively estimate heart rate (HR) in everyday environments and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Christian Holz

In the first half of the 20th century, a first pulse oximeter was available to measure blood flow changes in the peripheral vascular net. However, it was not until recent times the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal used to monitor many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Javier de Pedro-Carracedo , David Fuentes-Jimenez , Ana M. Ugena , Ana P. Gonzalez-Marcos

Cardiac abnormalities affecting heart rate and rhythm are commonly observed in both healthy and acutely unwell people. Although many of these are benign, they can sometimes indicate a serious health risk. ECG monitors are typically used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Stewart Whiting , Samuel Moreland , Jason Costello , Glen Colopy , Christopher McCann

Photoplethsmography (PPG)-based individual identification aiming at recognizing humans via intrinsic cardiovascular activities has raised extensive attention due to its high security and resistance to mimicry. However, this kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Riling Wei , Hanjie Chen , Kelu Yao , Chuanguang Yang , Jun Wang , Chao Li

With a surge in online medical advising remote monitoring of patient vitals is required. This can be facilitated with the Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) techniques that compute vital signs from facial videos. It involves processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Amtul Haq Ayesha , Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine

In the post-covid19 era, every new wave of the pandemic causes an increased concern among the masses to learn more about their state of well-being. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to come up with ubiquitous, low-cost, non-invasive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Ahsan Mehmood , Asma Sarauji , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We introduce Hand Movement, Orientation, and Grasp (HMOG), a set of behavioral features to continuously authenticate smartphone users. HMOG features unobtrusively capture subtle micro-movement and orientation dynamics resulting from how a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Zdenka Sitova , Jaroslav Sedenka , Qing Yang , Ge Peng , Gang Zhou , Paolo Gasti , Kiran Balagani

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an innovative method for monitoring heart rate and vital signs by using a simple camera to record a person, as long as any part of their skin is visible. This low-cost, contactless approach helps in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zahra Maleki , Amirhossein Akbari , Amirhossein Binesh , Babak Khalaj

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a method of detecting variation in blood volume commonly through contact with the skin and involving the usage of one or multiple sensors. PPG is typically used in health-related fields and one of its most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jiesheng He , Wei Wu

Photoplethysmography is a non-invasive optical technique that measures changes in blood volume within tissues. It is commonly and increasingly used for in a variety of research and clinical application to assess vascular dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marton A. Goda , Peter H. Charlton , Joachim A. Behar

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

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