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We present a novel learning-based method that achieves state-of-the-art performance on several heart rate estimation benchmarks extracted from photoplethysmography signals (PPG). We consider the evolution of the heart rate in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Valentin Bieri , Paul Streli , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

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

Hypertension is a medical condition characterized by high blood pressure, and classifying it into its various stages is crucial to managing the disease. In this project, a novel method is proposed for classifying stages of hypertension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Graham Frederick , Yaswant T , Brintha Therese A

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

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

The goal of this work is to demonstrate the use of the ballistocardiogram (BCG) signal, derived using head-mounted wearable devices, as a viable biometric for authentication. The BCG signal is the measure of an person's body acceleration as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-10 Joshua Hebert , Brittany Lewis , Hang Cai , Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian , Matthew Provost , Kelly Charlebois

In the context of dynamic emission tomography, the conventional processing pipeline consists of independent image reconstruction of single time frames, followed by the application of a suitable kinetic model to time activity curves (TACs)…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-28 Michele Scipioni , Stefano Pedemonte , Maria Filomena Santarelli , Luigi Landini

Current foundation model for photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is challenged by the intrinsic redundancy and noise of the signal. Standard masked modeling often yields trivial solutions while contrastive methods lack morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zongheng Guo , Tao Chen , Yang Jiao , Yi Pan , Xiao Hu , Manuela Ferrario

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based foundation models are gaining traction due to the widespread use of PPG in biosignal monitoring and their potential to generalize across diverse health applications. In this paper, we introduce Pulse-PPG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mithun Saha , Maxwell A. Xu , Wanting Mao , Sameer Neupane , James M. Rehg , Santosh Kumar

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

We introduce a methodology for performing parameter inference in high-dimensional, non-linear diffusion processes. We illustrate its applicability for obtaining insights into the evolution of and relationships between species, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-15 Nicklas Boserup , Gefan Yang , Michael Lind Severinsen , Christy Anna Hipsley , Stefan Sommer

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) technology infers heart rate by capturing subtle color changes in facial skin using a camera, demonstrating great potential in non-contact heart rate measurement. However, measurement accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rufei Ma , Chao Chen

Human computer interaction has become integral to modern life, driven by advancements in machine learning technologies. Affective computing, in particular, has focused on systems that recognize, interpret, and respond to human emotions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Karim Alghoul , Hussein Al Osman , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Our research is related to the employment of photoplethysmography (PPG) and laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) techniques (measuring the blood volume and flux, respectively) for the peripheral vascular system. We derive the governing equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Denis S Goldobin , Irina A Mizeva

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

Purpose. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technique that measures changes in blood flow volume through optical means. Previous research has established the feasibility of PPG peak detection based on the crossover of moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Cesar Abascal Machado , Victor O. Costa , Cesar Augusto Prior , Cesar Ramos Rodrigues

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

Recent statistics indicate that approximately 1.3 billion individuals worldwide suffer from hypertension, a leading cause of premature death globally. Blood Pressure (BP) serves as a critical health indicator for accurate and timely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-19 Amir Arjomand , Amin Boudesh , Farnoush Bayatmakou , Kenneth B. Kent , Arash Mohammadi

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) technique extracts blood volume pulse (BVP) signals from subtle pixel changes in video frames. This study introduces rFaceNet, an advanced rPPG method that enhances the extraction of facial BVP signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dali Zhu , Wenli Zhang , Hualin Zeng , Xiaohao Liu , Long Yang , Jiaqi Zheng

Camera-based physiological measurement is a fast growing field of computer vision. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) utilizes imaging devices (e.g., cameras) to measure the peripheral blood volume pulse (BVP) via photoplethysmography, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xin Liu , Girish Narayanswamy , Akshay Paruchuri , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiankai Tang , Yuzhe Zhang , Soumyadip Sengupta , Shwetak Patel , Yuntao Wang , Daniel McDuff