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Telehealth has the potential to offset the high demand for help during public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the problem of non-invasively estimating blood volume variations in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Ambareesh Revanur , Zhihua Li , Umur A. Ciftci , Lijun Yin , Laszlo A. Jeni

Wrist photoplethysmography (PPG) allows unobtrusive monitoring of the heart rate (HR). PPG is affected by the capillary blood perfusion and the pumping function of the heart, which generally deteriorate with age and due to presence of…

Progress in remote PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (rPPG) is limited by the critical issues of existing publicly available datasets: small size, privacy concerns with facial videos, and lack of diversity in conditions. The paper introduces a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Konstantin Egorov , Stepan Botman , Pavel Blinov , Galina Zubkova , Anton Ivaschenko , Alexander Kolsanov , Andrey Savchenko

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is the process of estimating PPG from facial videos. While this approach benefits from contactless interaction, it is reliant on videos of faces, which often constitutes an important privacy concern.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Divij Gupta , Ali Etemad

A plethora of wearable devices have been developed or commercialized for continuous non-invasive monitoring of physiological signals that are crucial for preventive care and management of chronic conditions. However, most of these devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Haoxuan Shen , Xiaoyi Gu , Yihong Wu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart rate (HR) estimation from facial videos which gives significant convenience compared with traditional contact-based measurements. In the real-world long-term health monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jianwei Li , Zitong Yu , Jingang Shi

The use of photoplethysmogram signal (PPG) for heart and sleep monitoring is commonly found nowadays in smartphones and wrist wearables. Besides common usages, it has been proposed and reported that person information can be extracted from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Guillermo Cámbara , Jordi Luque , Mireia Farrús

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for the contactless estimation of physiological signals from facial videos by analyzing subtle skin color changes. However, rPPG signals are extremely susceptible to illumination changes, motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Arpan Bairagi , Rakesh Dey , Siladittya Manna , Umapada Pal

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

Object: It is increasingly popular to collect as much data as possible in the hospital setting from clinical monitors for research purposes. However, in this setup the data calibration issue is often not discussed and, rather, implicitly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-17 Yu-Ting Lin , Yu-Lun Lo , Chen-Yun Lin , Hau-Tieng Wu , Martin G. Frasch

Infrared thermography has gained interest as a tool for non-contact measurement of blood circulation and skin blood flow due to cardiac activity. Partiularly, blood vessels on the surface, such as on the back of the hand, are suited for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nanami Kotani , Kuniharu Sakurada , Jiayi Xu , Masahiko Inami , Yasuaki Monnai

Video-based remote physiological measurement utilizes face videos to measure the blood volume change signal, which is also called remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Supervised methods for rPPG measurements achieve state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhaodong Sun , Xiaobai Li

This paper considers the problem of casual heart rate tracking during intensive physical exercise using simultaneous 2 channel photoplethysmographic (PPG) and 3 dimensional (3D) acceleration signals recorded from wrist. This is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ehsan Asadi , Mohsen Eskandari , Shahrzad Kiani , Farrokh Marvasti

Physiological activities can be manifested by the sensitive changes in facial imaging. While they are barely observable to our eyes, computer vision manners can, and the derived remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has shown considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hang Shao , Lei Luo , Jianjun Qian , Mengkai Yan , Shuo Chen , Jian Yang

Video-based remote physiological measurement utilizes facial videos to measure the blood volume change signal, which is also called remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Supervised methods for rPPG measurements have been shown to achieve good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhaodong Sun , Xiaobai Li

Continuous ambulatory monitoring of peripheral vascular perfusion could enable earlier detection of vascular dysfunction in individuals with diabetes mellitus and more timely management of cardiovascular disease. Clinical imaging modalities…

Recent studies showed that Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors embedded in wearable devices can estimate heart rate (HR) with high accuracy. However, despite of prior research efforts, applying PPG sensor based HR estimation to embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuntong Zhang , Jingye Xu , Mimi Xie , Wei Wang , Keying Ye , Jing Wang , Dakai Zhu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare). Existing rPPG approaches rely on analyzing very fine details of facial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Zitong Yu , Wei Peng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Guoying Zhao

Regular blood pressure (BP) monitoring in clinical and ambulatory settings plays a crucial role in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiovascular diseases. Recently, the widespread adoption of ambulatory BP…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Seyedeh Somayyeh Mousavi , Matthew A. Reyna , Gari D. Clifford , Reza Sameni

With the improvement of sensor technology and significant algorithmic advances, the accuracy of remote heart rate monitoring technology has been significantly improved. Despite of the significant algorithmic advances, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Lin Xi , Weihai Chen , Changchen Zhao , Xingming Wu , Jianhua Wang