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Portable physiological monitoring is essential for early detection and management of cardiovascular disease, but current methods often require specialized equipment that limits accessibility or impose impractical postures that patients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jiankai Tang , Tao Zhang , Jia Li , Yiru Zhang , Mingyu Zhang , Kegang Wang , Yuming Hao , Bolin Wang , Haiyang Li , Xingyao Wang , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang , Sichong Qian

Cardiac abnormalities affecting heart rate and rhythm are commonly observed in both healthy and acutely unwell people. Although many of these are benign, they can sometimes indicate a serious health risk. ECG monitors are typically used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Stewart Whiting , Samuel Moreland , Jason Costello , Glen Colopy , Christopher McCann

In recent years, research about monitoring vital signs by smartphones grows significantly. There are some special sensors like Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Photoplethysmographic (PPG) to detect heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Jafar Pourbemany , Almabrok Essa , Ye Zhu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique that estimates physiological signals by analyzing subtle skin color changes in facial videos. Existing rPPG methods often encounter performance degradation under facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zuxian He , Xu Cheng , Zhaodong Sun , Haoyu Chen , Jingang Shi , Xiaobai Li , Guoying Zhao

Amongst all medical biometric traits, Photoplethysmograph (PPG) is the easiest to acquire. PPG records the blood volume change with just combination of Light Emitting Diode and Photodiode from any part of the body. With IoT and smart homes'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Umang Yadav , Sherif N Abbas , Dimitrios Hatzinakos

Facial video-based remote physiological measurement is a promising research area for detecting human vital signs (e.g., heart rate, respiration frequency) in a non-contact way. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zijie Yue , Miaojing Shi , Hanli Wang , Shuai Ding , Qijun Chen , Shanlin Yang

We develop an algorithm that accurately detects Atrial Fibrillation (AF) episodes from photoplethysmograms (PPG) recorded in ambulatory free-living conditions. We collect and annotate a dataset containing more than 4000 hours of PPG…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Maxime Voisin , Yichen Shen , Alireza Aliamiri , Anand Avati , Awni Hannun , Andrew Ng

Photoplethysmography (PPG) plays a crucial role in continuous cardiovascular health monitoring as a non-invasive and cost-effective modality. However, PPG signals are susceptible to motion artifacts and noise, making accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Shuntaro Suzuki , Shuitsu Koyama , Shinnosuke Hirano , Shunya Nagashima

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure (BP) estimation represents a promising alternative to cuff-based BP measurements. Recently, an increasing number of deep learning models have been proposed to infer BP from the raw PPG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mohammad Moulaeifard , Peter H. Charlton , Nils Strodthoff

Utilizing mobile phone cameras for continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring presents a cost-effective and accessible approach, yet it is challenged by limitations in accuracy and interpretability. This study introduces four innovative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Ivan Liu , Fangyuan Liu , Qi Zhong , Shiguang Ni

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

Blood pressure (BP) is one of the most influential bio-markers for cardiovascular diseases and stroke; therefore, it needs to be regularly monitored to diagnose and prevent any advent of medical complications. Current cuffless approaches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Rishi Vardhan K , Vedanth S , Poojah G , Abhishek K , Nitish Kumar M , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

Heart rate measuring based on remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) plays an important role in health caring, which estimates heart rate from facial video in a non-contact, less-constrained way. End-to-end neural network is a main branch of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Weiyu Sun , Xinyu Zhang , Ying Chen , Yun Ge , Chunyu Ji , Xiaolin Huang

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

Background: Photoplethysmography (PPG), increasingly available through wearable devices, provides a non-invasive means of monitoring human hemodynamics. In this study, we introduce artificial intelligence-derived photoplethysmography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Guangkun Nie , Qinghao Zhao , Gongzheng Tang , Yaxin Li , Shenda Hong

Remote physiological measurement (RPM) is an essential tool for healthcare monitoring as it enables the measurement of physiological signs, e.g., heart rate, in a remote setting via physical wearables. Recently, with facial videos, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Hao Wang , Euijoon Ahn , Jinman Kim

Biophysical signals such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Photoplethysmogram (PPG) are key to the sensing of vital parameters for wellbeing. Coincidentally, ECG and PPG are signals, which provide a "different window" into the same phenomena,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Abhinandan Panda , Srinivas Pinisetty , Partha Roop

A photoplethysmography (PPG) is an uncomplicated and inexpensive optical technique widely used in the healthcare domain to extract valuable health-related information, e.g., heart rate variability, blood pressure, and respiration rate. PPG…

Video-based heart and respiratory rate measurements using facial videos are more useful and user-friendly than traditional contact-based sensors. However, most of the current deep learning approaches require ground-truth pulse and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Yusuke Akamatsu , Terumi Umematsu , Hitoshi Imaoka

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) aims to measure physiological signals and Heart Rate (HR) from facial videos. Recent unsupervised rPPG estimation methods have shown promising potential in estimating rPPG signals from facial regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Pei-Kai Huang , Tzu-Hsien Chen , Ya-Ting Chan , Kuan-Wen Chen , Chiou-Ting Hsu