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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a state-of-the-art, non-contact methodology for estimating human pulse by analyzing facial videos. Despite its potential, rPPG methods can be susceptible to various artifacts, such as noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Nhi Nguyen , Le Nguyen , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Olli Silvén , Miguel Bordallo López

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an innovative method for monitoring heart rate and vital signs by using a simple camera to record a person, as long as any part of their skin is visible. This low-cost, contactless approach helps in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zahra Maleki , Amirhossein Akbari , Amirhossein Binesh , Babak Khalaj

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor in wearable and clinical devices provides valuable physiological insights in a non-invasive and real-time fashion. Specialized Foundation Models (FM) or repurposed time-series FMs are used to benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Saurabh Kataria , Ayca Ermis , Lovely Yeswanth Panchumarthi , Minxiao Wang , Xiao Hu

We investigated the beat-to-beat fluctuation of the photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform. The motivation is that morphology variability extracted from the arterial blood pressure (ABP) has been found to correlate with baseline condition and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Yu-Chieh Ho , Te-Sheng Lin , She-Chih Wang , Chen-Shi Chang , Yu-Ting Lin

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

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

Camera-based monitoring of vital signs, also known as imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG), has seen applications in driver-monitoring, perfusion assessment in surgical settings, affective computing, and more. iPPG involves sensing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R Shenoy , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour , Rama Chellappa , Tim K. Marks

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

Blood pressure (BP) changes are linked to individual health status in both clinical and non-clinical settings. This study developed a deep learning model to classify systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), and mean (MBP) BP changes using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jingyuan Hong , Manasi Nandi , Weiwei Jin , Jordi Alastruey

Hypertension is a potentially unsafe health ailment, which can be indicated directly from the Blood pressure (BP). Hypertension always leads to other health complications. Continuous monitoring of BP is very important; however, cuff-based…

We present the findings of an experimental study whereby we correlate the changes in the morphology of the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal to healthy aging. Under this pretext, we estimate the biological age of a person as well as the age…

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Shyam A , Vignesh Ravichandran , Preejith S. P , Jayaraj Joseph , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique for measuring human physiological signals. Due to its convenience and non-invasiveness, it has demonstrated broad application potential in areas such as health monitoring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhipeng Li , Kegang Wang , Hanguang Xiao , Xingyue Liu , Feizhong Zhou , Jiaxin Jiang , Tianqi Liu

Exploiting photoplethysmography signals (PPG) for non-invasive blood pressure (BP) measurement is interesting for various reasons. First, PPG can easily be measured using fingerclip sensors. Second, camera-based approaches allow to derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Fabian Schrumpf , Patrick Frenzel , Christoph Aust , Georg Osterhoff , Mirco Fuchs

Vital signs such as pulse rate and breathing rate are currently measured using contact probes. But, non-contact methods for measuring vital signs are desirable both in hospital settings (e.g. in NICU) and for ubiquitous in-situ health…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Mayank Kumar , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ashutosh Sabharval

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

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors allow for non-invasive and comfortable heart-rate (HR) monitoring, suitable for compact wrist-worn devices. Unfortunately, Motion Artifacts (MAs) severely impact the monitoring accuracy, causing high…

With a surge in online medical advising remote monitoring of patient vitals is required. This can be facilitated with the Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) techniques that compute vital signs from facial videos. It involves processing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Amtul Haq Ayesha , Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine