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Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical standard for cardiac assessment but requires dedicated hardware that does not scale to daily-life monitoring. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is ubiquitous in wearables but lacks ECG-specific diagnostic…

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Nowadays, traditional authentication methods are vulnerable to face attacks that are often based on inherent security issues. Professional attackers leverage adversarial offenses on the security holes. Biometrics has intrinsic advantages to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Fangshi Zhou , Tianming Zhao

Biometric Authentication has become a very popular method for different state-of-the-art security architectures. Albeit the ubiquitous acceptance and constant development of trivial biometric authentication methods such as fingerprint,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Nafis Neehal , Dewan Ziaul Karim , Sejuti Banik , Tasfia Anika

Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate…

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

Blood pressure (BP) is a key indicator of cardiovascular health. As hypertension remains a global cause of morbidity and mortality, accurate, continuous, and non-invasive BP monitoring is therefore of paramount importance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Bálint Tóth , Dominik Senti , Thorir Mar Ingolfsson , Jeffrey Zweidler , Alexandre Elsig , Luca Benini , Yawei Li

We present our work on leveraging low-frame-rate monochrome (blue light) videos of fingertips, captured with an off-the-shelf fingerprint capture device, to extract vital signs and identify users. These videos utilize photoplethysmography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Olaoluwayimika Olugbenle , Logan Drake , Naveenkumar G. Venkataswamy , Arfina Rahman , Yemi Afolayanka , Masudul Imtiaz , Mahesh K. Banavar

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises physiological information related to cardiorespiratory health. However, while recording, these PPG signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts and body movements, leading to noise enriched,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Tamaghno Chatterjee , Aayushman Ghosh , Sayan Sarkar

Cuffless blood pressure screening based on easily acquired photoplethysmography (PPG) signals offers a practical pathway toward scalable cardiovascular health assessment. Despite rapid progress, existing PPG-based blood pressure estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Neville Mathew , Yidan Shen , Renjie Hu , Maham Rahimi , George Zouridakis

With the rapid advancement of technology, different biometric user authentication, and identification systems are emerging. Traditional biometric systems like face, fingerprint, and iris recognition, keystroke dynamics, etc. are prone to…

This paper presents a computational solution that enables continuous cardiac monitoring through cross-modality inference of electrocardiogram (ECG). While some smartwatches now allow users to obtain a 30-second ECG test by tapping a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Yuenan Li , Xin Tian , Qiang Zhu , Min Wu

Traditional diagnosis of aortic valve disease relies on echocardiography, but its cost and required expertise limit its use in large-scale early screening. Photoplethysmography (PPG) has emerged as a promising screening modality due to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Jiaze Wang , Qinghao Zhao , Zizheng Chen , Zhejun Sun , Deyun Zhang , Yuxi Zhou , Shenda Hong

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

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) and photoplethysmograms (PPGs) are generally used to monitor an individual's cardiovascular health. In clinical settings, ECGs and fingertip PPGs are the main signals used for assessing cardiovascular health, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Nathan C. L. Kong , Dae Lee , Huyen Do , Dae Hoon Park , Cong Xu , Hongda Mao , Jonathan Chung

In recent years, physiological signal based authentication has shown great promises,for its inherent robustness against forgery. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, being the most widely studied biosignal, has also received the highest level of…

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

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

Camera-based physiological measurement is a fast growing field of computer vision. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) utilizes imaging devices (e.g., cameras) to measure the peripheral blood volume pulse (BVP) via photoplethysmography, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xin Liu , Girish Narayanswamy , Akshay Paruchuri , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiankai Tang , Yuzhe Zhang , Soumyadip Sengupta , Shwetak Patel , Yuntao Wang , Daniel McDuff

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a method for measuring a subjects heart rate remotely using a camera. Factors such as subject movement, ambient light level, makeup etc. complicate such measurements by distorting the observed pulse.…

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A Bio-metrics system is actually a pattern recognition system that utilizes various patterns like iris, retina and biological traits like fingerprint, voice recognition, facial geometry and hand geometry. What makes Bio-metrics really…

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