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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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique for measuring cardiac signals from facial videos. High-quality rPPG pulse signals are urgently demanded in many fields, such as health monitoring and emotion recognition.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Rencheng Song , Huan Chen , Juan Cheng , Chang Li , Yu Liu , Xun Chen

Subtle periodic signals such as blood volume pulse and respiration can be extracted from RGB video, enabling remote health monitoring at low cost. Advancements in remote pulse estimation -- or remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) -- are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

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

Event cameras, also known as neuromorphic cameras, are an emerging technology that offer advantages over traditional shutter and frame-based cameras, including high temporal resolution, low power consumption, and selective data acquisition.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Aniket Jagtap , RamaKrishna Venkatesh Saripalli , Joe Lemley , Waseem Shariff , Alan F. Smeaton

Recent studies demonstrated that the average heart rate (HR) can be measured from facial videos based on non-contact remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). However for many medical applications (e.g., atrial fibrillation (AF) detection)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Camera-based physiological measurement is a growing field with neural models providing state-the-art-performance. Prior research have explored various "end-to-end" models; however these methods still require several preprocessing steps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xin Liu , Brian L. Hill , Ziheng Jiang , Shwetak Patel , Daniel McDuff

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare). Existing end-to-end rPPG and heart rate (HR) measurement methods from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Zitong Yu , Xiaobai Li , Xuesong Niu , Jingang Shi , Guoying Zhao

Recently, physiological signal-based biometric systems have received wide attention. Unlike traditional biometric features, physiological signals can not be easily compromised (usually unobservable to human eyes). Photoplethysmography (PPG)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lin Li , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Yonghang Tai , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Camera-based physiological monitoring, especially remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), is a promising tool for health diagnostics, and state-of-the-art pulse estimators have shown impressive performance on benchmark datasets. We argue that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

People often interact with their surroundings by applying pressure with their hands. While hand pressure can be measured by placing pressure sensors between the hand and the environment, doing so can alter contact mechanics, interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Patrick Grady , Chengcheng Tang , Samarth Brahmbhatt , Christopher D. Twigg , Chengde Wan , James Hays , Charles C. Kemp

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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), enabling non-contact physiological monitoring through facial light reflection analysis, faces critical computational bottlenecks as deep learning introduces performance gains at the cost of prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kegang Wang , Jiankai Tang , Yuxuan Fan , Jiatong Ji , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a fast-growing technique of vital sign estimation by analyzing video of a person. Several major phenomena affecting rPPG signals have been studied (e.g. video compression, distance from person to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yuriy Mironenko , Konstantin Kalinin , Mikhail Kopeliovich , Mikhail Petrushan

With the increasing awareness of high-quality life, there is a growing need for health monitoring devices running robust algorithms in home environment. Health monitoring technologies enable real-time analysis of users' health status,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ziyang Wang

Reflectance Confocal Microscopy (RCM) is a non-invasive imaging technique used in biomedical research and clinical dermatology. It provides virtual high-resolution images of the skin and superficial tissues, reducing the need for physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Hong-Jun Yoon , Chris Keum , Alexander Witkowski , Joanna Ludzik , Tracy Petrie , Heidi A. Hanson , Sancy A. Leachman

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 photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless vital sign monitoring using standard RGB cameras. However, existing methods rely on fixed parameters optimized for particular lighting conditions and camera setups, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Cecilia G. Morales , Fanurs Chi En Teh , Kai Li , Pushpak Agrawal , Artur Dubrawski

This paper presents an approach to assess the perfusion of visible human tissue from RGB video files. We propose metrics derived from remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals to detect whether a tissue is adequately supplied with blood.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Benjamin Kossack , Eric Wisotzky , Peter Eisert , Sebastian P. Schraven , Brigitta Globke , Anna Hilsmann

Robotic manipulation requires accurate perception of the environment, which poses a significant challenge due to its inherent complexity and constantly changing nature. In this context, RGB image and point-cloud observations are two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Boshi An , Yiran Geng , Kai Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Qi Dou , Hao Dong