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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a noninvasive technique that aims to capture subtle variations in facial pixels caused by changes in blood volume resulting from cardiac activities. Most existing unsupervised methods for rPPG tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xinyu Zhang , Weiyu Sun , Hao Lu , Ying Chen , Yun Ge , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yuan , Yingcong Chen

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) based on traditional frame-based cameras often struggles with motion artifacts and limited temporal resolution. To address these limitations, we introduce EMPD (Event-based Multimodal Physiological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Qian Feng , Pengfei Li , Rongshan Gao , Jiale Xu , Rui Gong , Yidi Li

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

Camera-based physiological monitoring, such as remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), captures subtle variations in skin optical properties caused by pulsatile blood volume changes using standard digital camera sensors. The demand for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Nicky Nirlipta Sahoo , VS Sachidanand , Matcha Naga Gayathri , Balamurali Murugesan , Keerthi Ram , Jayaraj Joseph , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Unaddressed pain in neonates can lead to adverse effects, including delayed development and slower weight gain, emphasising the need for more objective and reliable pain assessment methods. Hence, automated methods using behavioural and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ashutosh Dhamaniya , Anup Kumar Gupta , Trishna Saikia , Puneet Gupta

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

Camera-based contactless photoplethysmography refers to a set of popular techniques for contactless physiological measurement. The current state-of-the-art neural models are typically trained in a supervised manner using videos accompanied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Xin Liu , Yuntao Wang , Sinan Xie , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zixian Ma , Daniel McDuff , Shwetak Patel

Most affective computing tasks still rely heavily on traditional methods, with few deep learning models applied, particularly in multimodal signal processing. Given the importance of stress monitoring for mental health, developing a highly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhifeng Wang , Wanxuan Wu , Chunyan Zeng

Photoplethysmography (PPG) has become a ubiquitous physiological signal; however, current generative models still struggle to preserve realistic waveform morphology and learn a latent structure that captures cardiac and respiratory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Fatemeh Ghasemi Balouei , Nathan Willemsen , Mahesh Banavar , Bahman Moraffah

Automatic pain recognition is paramount for medical diagnosis and treatment. The existing works fall into three categories: assessing facial appearance changes, exploiting physiological cues, or fusing them in a multi-modal manner. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ruijing Yang , Ziyu Guan , Zitong Yu , Xiaoyi Feng , Jinye Peng , Guoying Zhao

Despite the population of the noninvasive, economic, comfortable, and easy-to-install photoplethysmography (PPG), it is still lacking a mathematically rigorous and stable algorithm which is able to simultaneously extract from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Antonio Cicone , Hau-Tieng Wu

Human computer interaction has become integral to modern life, driven by advancements in machine learning technologies. Affective computing, in particular, has focused on systems that recognize, interpret, and respond to human emotions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Karim Alghoul , Hussein Al Osman , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Accurate segmentation of organs and lesions in medical images is essential for clinical applications including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive segmentation performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jin Yang , Xiaobing Yu , Peijie Qiu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an important technique for perceiving human vital signs, which has received extensive attention. For a long time, researchers have focused on supervised methods that rely on large amounts of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xin Liu , Yuting Zhang , Zitong Yu , Hao Lu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

In the first half of the 20th century, a first pulse oximeter was available to measure blood flow changes in the peripheral vascular net. However, it was not until recent times the PhotoPlethysmoGraphic (PPG) signal used to monitor many…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Javier de Pedro-Carracedo , David Fuentes-Jimenez , Ana M. Ugena , Ana P. Gonzalez-Marcos

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact measurement of cardiac pulse signals by analyzing subtle color changes in facial videos. Nevertheless, extracting rPPG signals remains challenging because of their extremely weak signal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Kosuke Kurihara , Yoshihiro Maeda , Daisuke Sugimura , Takayuki Hamamoto

Despite the significant advancements in pre-training methods for point cloud understanding, directly capturing intricate shape information from irregular point clouds without reliance on external data remains a formidable challenge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Changshuo Wang , Meiqing Wu , Siew-Kei Lam , Xin Ning , Shangshu Yu , Ruiping Wang , Weijun Li , Thambipillai Srikanthan

Unsupervised remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) promises to leverage unlabeled video data, but its potential is hindered by a critical challenge: training on low-quality "in-the-wild" videos severely degrades model performance. An essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianyang Dai , Ming Chang , Yan Chen , Yang Hu

In scientific and engineering domains, modeling high-dimensional complex systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) remains challenging in terms of physical consistency and numerical stability. However, existing approaches,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Siqi Wang , Mengmeng Zhang , Yude Bu , Chaozhou Mou

Face analysis has been studied from different angles to infer emotion, poses, shapes, and landmarks. Traditionally RGB cameras are used, yet for fine-grained tasks standard sensors might not be up to the task due to their latency, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Claudio Ferrari , Alberto Del Bimbo