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User authentication is a pivotal element in security systems. Conventional methods including passwords, personal identification numbers, and identification tags are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper suggests a paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy , Masudul H Imtiaz

This paper presents an approach to assess the perfusion of visible human tissue from RGB video files. We propose metrics derived from remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals to detect whether a tissue is adequately supplied with blood.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Benjamin Kossack , Eric Wisotzky , Peter Eisert , Sebastian P. Schraven , Brigitta Globke , Anna Hilsmann

Heartbeat rhythm and heart rate (HR) are important physiological parameters of the human body. This study presents an efficient multi-hierarchical spatio-temporal convolutional network that can quickly estimate remote physiological (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Bin Li , Panpan Zhang , Jinye Peng , Hong Fu

Prevailing user authentication schemes on smartphones rely on explicit user interaction, where a user types in a passcode or presents a biometric cue such as face, fingerprint, or iris. In addition to being cumbersome and obtrusive to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Debayan Deb , Arun Ross , Anil K. Jain , Kwaku Prakah-Asante , K. Venkatesh Prasad

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique for measuring human physiological signals. Due to its convenience and non-invasiveness, it has demonstrated broad application potential in areas such as health monitoring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhipeng Li , Kegang Wang , Hanguang Xiao , Xingyue Liu , Feizhong Zhou , Jiaxin Jiang , Tianqi Liu

With the growing percentage of elderly people and care home admissions, there is an urgent need for the development of fall detection and fall prevention technologies. This work presents, for the first time, the use of machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Robbie Maccay , Roshan Weerasekera

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) are commonly recorded in intesive care unit (ICU) and operating room (OR). However, the high incidence of poor, incomplete, and inconsistent signal quality, can lead to false alarms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zongheng Guo , Tao Chen , Manuela Ferrario

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact, continuous monitoring of physiological signals and offers a practical alternative to traditional health sensing methods. Although rPPG is promising for daily health monitoring, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xulin Ma , Jiankai Tang , Zhang Jiang , Songqin Cheng , Yuanchun Shi , Dong LI , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Xiaojing Liu , Yuntao Wang

Smart wearables enable continuous tracking of established biomarkers such as heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood oxygen saturation via photoplethysmography (PPG). Beyond these metrics, PPG waveforms contain richer physiological…

Sleep is a crucial aspect of our overall health and well-being. It plays a vital role in regulating our mental and physical health, impacting our mood, memory, and cognitive function to our physical resilience and immune system. The…

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the non-contact based detection of the respiration rate from video sequences. Common techniques either directly assess the movement of the chest due to breathing or are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Fabian Schrumpf , Christoph Moench , Gerold Bausch , Mirco Fuchs

Continuous, ubiquitous monitoring through wearable sensors has the potential to collect useful information about users' context. Heart rate is an important physiologic measure used in a wide variety of applications, such as fitness tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nutta Homdee , Mehdi Boukhechba , Yixue W. Feng , Natalie Kramer , John Lach , Laura E. Barnes

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used as a non-invasive and accessible modality for continuous health monitoring. However, despite being a peripheral hemodynamic signal intrinsically coupled with systemic circulation, existing research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Guangkun Nie , Xiaocheng Fang , Gongzheng Tang , Yujie Xiao , Jun Li , Bo Liu , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Camera-based physiological monitoring, especially remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), is a promising tool for health diagnostics, and state-of-the-art pulse estimators have shown impressive performance on benchmark datasets. We argue that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals are easily contaminated by motion artifacts in real-world settings, despite their widespread use in Internet-of-Things (IoT) based wearable and smart health devices for cardiovascular health monitoring. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Yali Zheng , Chen Wu , Peizheng Cai , Zhiqiang Zhong , Hongda Huang , Yuqi Jiang

Continuous cardiovascular monitoring can play a key role in precision health. However, some fundamental cardiac biomarkers of interest, including stroke volume and cardiac output, require invasive measurements, e.g., arterial pressure…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) based on traditional frame-based cameras often struggles with motion artifacts and limited temporal resolution. To address these limitations, we introduce EMPD (Event-based Multimodal Physiological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Qian Feng , Pengfei Li , Rongshan Gao , Jiale Xu , Rui Gong , Yidi Li

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) holds great promise for continuous heart-rate monitoring of drivers in intelligent vehicles. However, its performance is severely degraded by the highly dynamic illumination changes. A critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jieying Wang , Xinqi Cai , Caifeng Shan , Wenjin Wang

Blood oxygen saturation (SpO$_2$) is an important indicator for pulmonary and respiratory functionalities. Clinical findings on COVID-19 show that many patients had dangerously low blood oxygen levels not long before conditions worsened. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Xin Tian , Chau-Wai Wong , Sushant M. Ranadive , Min Wu

With the emergence of GAN, face forgery technologies have been heavily abused. Achieving accurate face forgery detection is imminent. Inspired by remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) that PPG signal corresponds to the periodic change of skin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiahao Liang , Weihong Deng