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Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals encode information about relative changes in blood volume that can be used to assess various aspects of cardiac health non-invasively, e.g.\ to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) or predict blood pressure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ciaran Bench , Vivek Desai , Mohammad Moulaeifard , Nils Strodthoff , Philip Aston , Andrew Thompson

In this study we estimate the heart rate from face videos for student assessment. This information could be very valuable to track their status along time and also to estimate other data such as their attention level or the presence of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Javier Hernandez-Ortega , Roberto Daza , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana

Numerous real-world applications have been driven by the recent algorithmic advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Healthcare is no exception and AI technologies have great potential to revolutionize the industry. Non-contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xin Liu , Shwetak Patel , Daniel McDuff

Heart rate variability (HRV) is widely recognized as a valuable biomarker for assessing autonomic cardiac regulation. Pulse rate variability (PRV) is a common surrogate of HRV given the wide usability of PPG in commercially available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Runwei Lin , Frank Halfwerk , Gozewijn Dirk Laverman , Dirk Donker , Ying Wang

Seismocardiography (SCG) is a non-invasive method that can be used for cardiac activity monitoring. This paper presents a new electrocardiogram (ECG) independent approach for estimating heart rate (HR) during low and high lung volume (LLV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-04 Amirtaha Taebi , Andrew J Bomar , Richard H Sandler , Hansen A Mansy

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have been widely used in consumer wearable devices to monitor heart rates (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV). Despite the prevalence, PPG signals can be contaminated by motion artifacts induced from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chunsheng Zuo , Yu Zhao , Juntao Ye

Remote detection of the cardiac pulse has a number of applications in sports and medicine, and can be used to determine the physiological state of the subject. Previous approaches to estimate Heart Rate from video require the subject to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Arvind Subramaniam , Rajitha K

This paper presents a novel method for remote heart rate (HR) estimation. Recent studies have proved that blood pumping by the heart is highly correlated to the intense color of face pixels, and surprisingly can be utilized for remote HR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Mohammad Sabokrou , Masoud Pourreza , Xiaobai Li , Mahmood Fathy , Guoying Zhao

Background: A smartphone is a promising tool for daily cardiovascular measurement and mental stress monitoring. A smartphone camera-based PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) and a low-cost thermal camera can be used to create cheap, convenient and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Youngjun Cho , Simon J. Julier , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Photolethysmographic imaging (PPGI) is a widefield non-contact biophotonic technology able to remotely monitor cardiovascular function over anatomical areas. Though spatial context can provide increased physiological insight, existing PPGI…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-21 Robert Amelard , David A Clausi , Alexander Wong

Recent work has shown that a person's sympathetic arousal can be estimated from facial videos alone using basic signal processing. This opens up new possibilities in the field of telehealth and stress management, providing a non-invasive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Björn Braun , Daniel McDuff , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Paul Streli , Max Moebus , Christian Holz

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

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

Unaddressed pain in neonates can lead to adverse effects, including delayed development and slower weight gain, emphasising the need for more objective and reliable pain assessment methods. Hence, automated methods using behavioural and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ashutosh Dhamaniya , Anup Kumar Gupta , Trishna Saikia , Puneet Gupta

Heart rate (HR) estimation via remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a non-invasive solution for health monitoring. However, traditional single-modality approaches (RGB or Radio Frequency (RF)) face challenges in balancing robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zheng Wu , Yiping Xie , Bo Zhao , Jiguang He , Fei Luo , Ning Deng , Zitong Yu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact measurement of physiological signals from facial videos, offering strong potential for remote healthcare and daily health monitoring. Driven by this potential, various deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jun Seong Lee , Samyeul Noh , Changki Sung , Hyun Myung

Extracting the instantaneous heart rate (iHR) from face videos has been well studied in recent years. It is well known that changes in skin color due to blood flow can be captured using conventional cameras. One of the main limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Natalia Martinez , Martin Bertran , Guillermo Sapiro , Hau-Tieng Wu

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

Visible-light cameras can capture subtle physiological biomarkers without physical contact with the subject. We present the Multi-Site Physiological Monitoring (MSPM) dataset, which is the first dataset collected to support the study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

Remote estimation of vital signs enables health monitoring for situations in which contact-based devices are either not available, too intrusive, or too expensive. In this paper, we present a modular, interpretable pipeline for pulse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R. Shenoy , Shaoju Wu , Armand Comas , Tim K. Marks , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour