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Goal: A new method for heart rate monitoring using photoplethysmography (PPG) during physical activities is proposed. Methods: It jointly estimates spectra of PPG signals and simultaneous acceleration signals, utilizing the multiple…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Zhilin Zhang

We present for the first time a novel method that utilizes the chest movement-modulated radio signals for non-contact acquisition of the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. Under the proposed method, a software-defined radio (SDR) exposes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Israel Jesus Santos Filho , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Tareq Al-Naffouri

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact physiological measurement but remains highly susceptible to illumination changes, motion artifacts, and limited temporal modeling. Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yiping Xie , Bo Zhao , Mingtong Dai , Jian-Ping Zhou , Yue Sun , Tao Tan , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen , Zitong Yu

Camera-based photoplethysmography (PPG) obtained from smartphones has shown great promise for personalized healthcare and secure authentication. This paper presents a multimodal biometric system that integrates PPG signals extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xue Xian Zheng , M. M. Ur Rahma , Bilal Taha , Mudassir Masood , Dimitrios Hatzinakos , Tareq Al-Naffouri

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless physiological sensing from facial videos by analyzing subtle appearance variations induced by blood circulation. However, modeling the temporal dynamics of these signals remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ba-Thinh Nguyen , Thi-Duyen Ngo , Thanh-Trung Huynh , Thanh-Ha Le , Huy-Hieu Pham

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

Digital twins for 1D bio-signals enable real-time monitoring of physiological processes of a person, which enables early disease diagnosis and personalized treatment. This work introduces a novel non-contact method for digital twin (DT)…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) can remotely extract physiological signals from RGB video, which has many advantages in detecting heart rate, such as low cost and no invasion to patients. The existing rPPG model is usually based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Taixi Chen , Yiu-ming Cheung

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

In this paper, we propose a system that enables photoplethysmogram (PPG)-based authentication by using a smartphone camera. PPG signals are obtained by recording a video from the camera as users are resting their finger on top of the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Giulio Lovisotto , Henry Turner , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) aims to extract non-contact physiological signals from facial videos and has shown great potential. However, existing rPPG approaches struggle to bridge the gap between source and target domains. Recent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-03 Shuyang Chu , Jingang Shi , Xu Cheng , Haoyu Chen , Xin Liu , Jian Xu , Guoying Zhao

Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The ability to diagnose and treat hypertension in the ambulatory population is hindered by limited access and poor adherence to current methods of monitoring blood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Theodore Curran , Chengqian Ma , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Girish Narayanswamy , George Stergiou , Shwetak Patel , Eugene Yang

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bo Zhao , Dan Guo , Junzhe Cao , Yong Xu , Bochao Zou , Tao Tan , Yue Sun , Zitong Yu

Unobservable physiological signals enhance biometric authentication systems. Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are convenient owning to its ease of measurement and are usually well protected against remote adversaries in authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Lin Li , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

This study evaluates remote Photopletismography (rPPG) algorithms, Spatial Subspace Rotation (2SR), Chrominance-based method (CHROM), Plane-Orthogonal-to-Skin (POS), and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), applied to selected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Đorđe D. Nešković , Nadica Miljković

Objective. Wearable devices with embedded photoplethysmography (PPG) enable continuous non-invasive monitoring of cardiac activity, offering a promising strategy to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular diseases. However, monitoring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Giulio Basso , Xi Long , Reinder Haakma , Rik Vullings

Non-Contact sensing is an emerging technology with applications across many industries from driver monitoring in vehicles to patient monitoring in healthcare. Current state-of-the-art implementations focus on RGB video, but this struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Timothy Hanley , Dara Golden , Robyn Maxwell , Ashkan Parsi , Joseph Lemley

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

Camera-based physiological signal estimation provides a non-contact and convenient means to monitor Heart Rate (HR). However, the presence of vital signals in facial videos raises significant privacy concerns, as they can reveal sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tianwen Zhou , Akshay Paruchuri , Josef Spjut , Kaan Akşit