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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a novel approach to noninvasive monitoring of vital signs, such as respiratory rate, utilizing a camera. Although several supervised and self-supervised methods have been proposed, they often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Banafsheh Adami , Nima Karimian

In this paper, we presented the design and development of a new integrated device for measuring heart rate using fingertip to improve estimating the heart rate. As heart related diseases are increasing day by day, the need for an accurate…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. M. A. Hashem , Rushdi Shams , Md. Abdul Kader , Md. Abu Sayed

Heart rate (HR) is an important physiological signal that reflects the physical and emotional activities of humans. Traditional HR measurements are mainly based on contact monitors, which are inconvenient and may cause discomfort for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xuesong Niu , Hu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Depression is a mental illness that may be harmful to an individual's health. The detection of mental health disorders in the early stages and a precise diagnosis are critical to avoid social, physiological, or psychological side effects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Miguel Bordallo López

Wrist-worn smart devices are providing increased insights into human health, behaviour and performance through sophisticated analytics. However, battery life, device cost and sensor performance in the face of movement-related artefact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Eoin Brophy , Willie Muehlhausen , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

Photoplethysmographic imaging is a camera-based solution for non-contact cardiovascular monitoring from a distance. This technology enables monitoring in situations where contact-based devices may be problematic or infeasible, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Robert Amelard , David A Clausi , Alexander Wong

Heart rate variability studies depend on the robust calculation of the tachogram, the heart rate times series, usually by the detection of R peaks in the electrocardiogram (ECG). ECGs however are subject to a number of sources of noise…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-19 Sean Parsons , Jan Huizinga

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

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

Multimodal emotion recognition techniques are increasingly essential for assessing mental states. Image-based methods, however, tend to focus predominantly on overt visual cues and often overlook subtler mental state changes.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ivan Liu , Fangyuan Liu , Qi Zhong , Fei Ma , Shiguang Ni

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

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of methods for remote heart rate estimation using face videos, i.e., given a video sequence of the face as input, methods to process it to obtain a robust estimation of the subjects heart rate at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Julian Fierrez , Aythami Morales , David Diaz

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

This paper presents a robust method to monitor heart rate (HR) from BCG (Ballistocardiography) signal, which is acquired from the sensor embedded in a chair or a mattress. The proposed algorithm addresses the shortfalls in traditional Fast…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Qingsong Xie , Guoxing Wang , Yong Lian

Measurement of the cardiac pulse from facial video has become an interesting pursuit of research over the last few years. This is mainly due to the increasing importance of obtaining the heart rate of an individual in a non-invasive manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Bharath Ramakrishnan , Ruijia Deng

Heart rate estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals generated by wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers has significant implications for the health and well-being of individuals. Although prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kanav Arora , Girish Narayanswamy , Shwetak Patel , Richard Li

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a common tool for monitoring cardiopulmonary health. Relying on absorption or reflectance of light by hemoglobin in the blood, the measured PPG waveform can be analyzed per heart beat using physiological…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-08 Saud Lingawi , Garrett Frank , Benedictus H. Kartawidjaja , Mahsa Khalili , Brian Kwon , Calvin Kuo

Recent advances in deep learning have made it increasingly feasible to estimate heart rate remotely in smart environments by analyzing videos. However, a notable limitation of deep learning methods is their heavy reliance on extensive sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Divij Gupta , Ali Etemad

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

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