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Cardiovascular diseases remain a leading cause of mortality and disability. The convenient measurement of cardiovascular health using smart systems is therefore a key enabler to foster accurate and early detection and diagnosis of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Nima Bahmani , Dariush Salami , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Juhapekka Hietala , Tuukka Panula , Stephan Sigg

Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive optical sensing technique widely used to capture hemodynamic information, with broad deployment in both clinical monitoring systems and wearable devices. In recent years, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Guangkun Nie , Jiabao Zhu , Gongzheng Tang , Deyun Zhang , Shijia Geng , Qinghao Zhao , Shenda Hong

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for noncontact monitoring of blood volume changes from a camera by detecting minor fluctuations in reflected light. Prior applications of rPPG focused on face videos. In this paper we explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lu Niu , Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Adam Czajka , Patrick Flynn

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

rPPG (Remote photoplethysmography) is a technology that measures and analyzes BVP (Blood Volume Pulse) by using the light absorption characteristics of hemoglobin captured through a camera. Analyzing the measured BVP can derive various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Dae-Yeol Kim , Eunsu Goh , KwangKee Lee , JongEui Chae , JongHyeon Mun , Junyeong Na , Chae-bong Sohn , Do-Yup Kim

Smartwatches have become popular for monitoring physiological parameters outside clinical settings. Using reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors, such watches can non-invasively estimate heart rate (HR) in everyday environments and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Christian Holz

Remote camera measurement of the blood volume pulse via photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a compelling technology for scalable, low-cost, and accessible assessment of cardiovascular information. Neural networks currently provide the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Björn Braun , Daniel McDuff , Christian Holz

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

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a technique for estimating blood volume changes from reflected light without the need for a contact sensor. We present the first examples of presentation attacks in the digital and physical domains on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Kevin W. Bowyer , Adam Czajka

Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG), increasingly available through wearable devices, provides a non-invasive means of monitoring human hemodynamics. In this study, we introduce artificial intelligence-derived photoplethysmography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Guangkun Nie , Qinghao Zhao , Gongzheng Tang , Yaxin Li , Shenda Hong

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is one of the most widely captured biosignals for clinical prediction tasks, yet PPG-based algorithms are typically trained on small-scale datasets of uncertain quality, which hinders meaningful algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mohammad Moulaeifard , Philip J. Aston , Peter H. Charlton , Nils Strodthoff

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a remotely placed camera to estimating a person's heart rate (HR). Similar to how heart rate can provide useful information about a person's vital signs, insights about the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Roelof Lochmans , Jan van Gemert

Video plethysmographic (vPPG) signals arise from subtle color modulations in reflected light. vPPG signals can be used to monitor vital signs remotely in a noninvasive manner. We have used optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging to find…

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely used non-invasive physiological sensing technique, suitable for various clinical applications. Such clinical applications are increasingly supported by machine learning methods, raising the question of…

Photoplethysmography is a prevalent, non-invasive heart monitoring method. In this paper an implementation of photoplethysmography on the Raspberry Pi is presented. Two modulation techniques are discussed, which make possible to measure…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Tamas Nagy , Zoltan Gingl

Blood Pressure (BP) is one of the four primary vital signs indicating the status of the body's vital (life-sustaining) functions. BP is difficult to continuously monitor using a sphygmomanometer (i.e. a blood pressure cuff), especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ali Tazarv , Marco Levorato

Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Utilizing mobile phone cameras for continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring presents a cost-effective and accessible approach, yet it is challenged by limitations in accuracy and interpretability. This study introduces four innovative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Ivan Liu , Fangyuan Liu , Qi Zhong , Shiguang Ni