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This paper explores using RSS measurements on many links in a wireless network to estimate the breathing rate of a person, and the location where the breathing is occurring, in a home, while the person is sitting, laying down, standing, or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Neal Patwari , Lara Brewer , Quinn Tate , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Maurizio Bocca

This paper addresses the performance of systems which use commercial wireless devices to make bistatic RF channel measurements for non-contact respiration sensing. Published research has typically presented results from short controlled…

Signals comprised of a stream of short pulses appear in many applications including bio-imaging and radar. The recent finite rate of innovation framework, has paved the way to low rate sampling of such pulses by noticing that only a small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Ronen Tur , Yonina C. Eldar , Zvi Friedman

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

Breathing disorders such as sleep apnea is a critical disorder that affects a large number of individuals due to the insufficient capacity of the lungs to contain/exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide to ensure that the body is in the stable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Daniel Minati , Ludwik Sams , Karen Li , Bo Ji , Krishna Vardhan

Heart rate (HR) is an important physiological signal that reflects the physical and emotional status of a person. Traditional HR measurements usually rely on contact monitors, which may cause inconvenience and discomfort. Recently, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xuesong Niu , Shiguang Shan , Hu Han , Xilin Chen

Heart rate is a physiological signal that provides information about an individual's health and affective state. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows the estimation of this signal from video recordings of a person's face. Classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bhargav Acharya , William Saakyan , Barbara Hammer , Hanna Drimalla

In the last few decades, several wearable devices have been designed to monitor respiration rate in an effort to capture pulmonary signals with higher accuracy and reduce patients' discomfort during use. In this article, we present the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Bardia Baraeinejad , Maryam Forouzesh , Saba Babaei , Yasin Naghshbandi , Yasaman Torabi , Shabnam Fazliani

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a method for non-contact measurement of physiological signals from facial videos, holding great potential in various applications such as healthcare, affective computing, and anti-spoofing. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bochao Zou , Zizheng Guo , Xiaocheng Hu , Huimin Ma

This study proposes a multi-radar system for non-contact physiological sensing across arbitrary body orientations. In integrating signals obtained from different radar viewpoints, we adopt a multivariate variational mode decomposition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Kimitaka Sumi , Takuya Sakamoto

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

The ability to reliably estimate physiological signals from video is a powerful tool in low-cost, pre-clinical health monitoring. In this work we propose a new approach to remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) - the measurement of blood volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 John Gideon , Simon Stent

Measurement of the cardiac pulse from facial video has become an interesting pursuit of research over the last few years. This is mainly due to the increasing importance of obtaining the heart rate of an individual in a non-invasive manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Bharath Ramakrishnan , Ruijia Deng

Compared to contact fingerprint images, contactless fingerprint images exhibit four distinct characteristics: (1) they contain less noise; (2) they have fewer discontinuities in ridge patterns; (3) the ridge-valley pattern is less distinct;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mahrukh Siddiqui , Shahzaib Iqbal , Bandar AlShammari , Bandar Alhaqbani , Tariq M. Khan , Imran Razzak

In post-covid19 world, radio frequency (RF)-based non-contact methods, e.g., software-defined radios (SDR)-based methods have emerged as promising candidates for intelligent remote sensing of human vitals, and could help in containment of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Kawish Pervez , Waqas Aman , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , M. Wasim Nawaz , Qammer H. Abbasi

We present a variational message passing (VMP) approach to detect the presence of a person based on their respiratory chest motion using multistatic ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. In the process, the respiratory motion is estimated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Franz Pernkopf , Klaus Witrisal

We developed a noncontact measurement system for monitoring the respiration of multiple people using millimeter-wave array radar. To separate the radar echoes of multiple people, conventional techniques cluster the radar echoes in the time,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Takato Koda , Takuya Sakamoto , Shigeaki Okumura , Hirofumi Taki

Smartwatches have become popular for monitoring physiological parameters outside clinical settings. Using reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors, such watches can non-invasively estimate heart rate (HR) in everyday environments and…

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

Radar-based non-contact respiration rate (RR) measurement has become increasingly popular due to its convenience, non-intrusiveness, and low cost. However, it is still quite challenging to accurately acquire vital signs estimation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Chendong Xu , Shuai Yao , Haoying Bao , Chiyuan Ma , Qisong Wu

The Relative Pose based Redundancy Removal(RPRR) scheme is presented, which has been designed for mobile RGB-D sensor networks operating under bandwidth-constrained operational scenarios. Participating sensor nodes detect the redundant…