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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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Guangkun Nie , Jiabao Zhu , Gongzheng Tang , Deyun Zhang , Shijia Geng , Qinghao Zhao , Shenda Hong

Objectives: This study examines human Photoplethysmogram (PPG) along with Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to study cardiac autonomic imbalance in epileptic seizures. The significance and the prevalence of changes in PPG morphological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Seyede Mahya Safavi , Ninaz Valisharifabad , Robert Sabino , Hsinchung Chen , Ali HeydariGorji , Demi Tran , Jack Lin , Beth Lopour , Pai H. Chou

Objective- Heart rate monitoring using wrist type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals is getting popularity because of construction simplicity and low cost of wearable devices. The task becomes very difficult due to the presence of various…

Utilizing mobile phone cameras for continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring presents a cost-effective and accessible approach, yet it is challenged by limitations in accuracy and interpretability. This study introduces four innovative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Ivan Liu , Fangyuan Liu , Qi Zhong , Shiguang Ni

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, typically acquired from wearable devices, hold significant potential for continuous fitness-health monitoring. In particular, heart conditions that manifest in rare and subtle deviating heart patterns may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

Vital signs such as pulse rate and breathing rate are currently measured using contact probes. But, non-contact methods for measuring vital signs are desirable both in hospital settings (e.g. in NICU) and for ubiquitous in-situ health…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Mayank Kumar , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ashutosh Sabharval

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple and inexpensive technology used in many smart devices to monitor cardiovascular health. The PPG sensors use LED lights to penetrate into the bloodstream to detect the different blood volume changes in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Irene Pi , Isleen Pi , Wei Wu

In order to obtain insights into the feasibility of replacing ECG-guided triggering in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by a system based on video photoplethysmography (PPG), PPG and ECG data were collected from volunteers in an MRI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 A. C. den Brinker , H. H. Der Sarkissian , J. H. Wülbern , B. Balmaekers , M. Padalko , J. Sénégas , R. Springorum , C. Possanzini

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

Recent studies showed that Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors embedded in wearable devices can estimate heart rate (HR) with high accuracy. However, despite of prior research efforts, applying PPG sensor based HR estimation to embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuntong Zhang , Jingye Xu , Mimi Xie , Wei Wang , Keying Ye , Jing Wang , Dakai Zhu

Photoplethysmography (PPG) Sensors, widely deployed in smartwatches, offer a simple and non-invasive authentication approach for daily use. However, PPG authentication faces reliability issues due to motion artifacts from physical activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiankai Tang , Jiacheng Liu , Renling Tong , Kai Zhu , Zhe Li , Xin Yi , Junliang Xing , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

In recent years, there has been a shift of interest towards the field of biometric authentication, which proves the identity of the user using their biological characteristics. We explore a novel biometric based on the electrical activity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Nikita Samarin , Donald Sannella

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises physiological information related to cardiorespiratory health. However, while recording, these PPG signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts and body movements, leading to noise enriched,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Tamaghno Chatterjee , Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar

Facial video-based remote physiological measurement aims to estimate remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals from human face videos and then measure multiple vital signs (e.g. heart rate, respiration frequency) from rPPG signals. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zijie Yue , Miaojing Shi , Shuai Ding

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for noncontact monitoring of blood volume changes from a camera by detecting minor fluctuations in reflected light. Prior applications of rPPG focused on face videos. In this paper we explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lu Niu , Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Adam Czajka , Patrick Flynn

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

Much of the information of breathing is contained within the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal, through changes in venous blood flow, heart rate and stroke volume. We aim to leverage this fact, by employing a novel deep learning framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Harry J. Davies , Danilo P. Mandic

Smart watches and other wearable devices are equipped with photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors for monitoring heart rate and other aspects of cardiovascular health. However, PPG signals collected from such devices are susceptible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Pranay Jain , Cheng Ding , Cynthia Rudin , Xiao Hu

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a cost-effective and non-invasive technique that utilizes optical methods to measure cardiac physiology. PPG has become increasingly popular in health monitoring and is used in various commercial and clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Khuong Vo , Mostafa El-Khamy , Yoojin Choi

Vital sign measurement using cameras presents opportunities for comfortable, ubiquitous health monitoring. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), a foundational technology, enables cardiac measurement through minute changes in light reflected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kegang Wang , Jiankai Tang , Yuntao Wang , Xin Liu , Yuxuan Fan , Jiatong Ji , Yuanchun Shi , Daniel McDuff