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Background: A smartphone is a promising tool for daily cardiovascular measurement and mental stress monitoring. A smartphone camera-based PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) and a low-cost thermal camera can be used to create cheap, convenient and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Youngjun Cho , Simon J. Julier , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, which measure changes in blood volume in the skin using light, have recently gained attention in biometric authentication because of their non-invasive acquisition, inherent liveness detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Arfina Rahman , Mahesh Banavar

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a remotely placed camera to estimating a person's heart rate (HR). Similar to how heart rate can provide useful information about a person's vital signs, insights about the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Roelof Lochmans , Jan van Gemert

Smart wearables enable continuous tracking of established biomarkers such as heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood oxygen saturation via photoplethysmography (PPG). Beyond these metrics, PPG waveforms contain richer physiological…

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) monitors heart rate without requiring physical contact, which allows for a wide variety of applications. Deep learning-based rPPG have demonstrated superior performance over the traditional approaches in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ze Yang , Haofei Wang , Feng Lu

We present a lightweight neural model for remote heart rate estimation focused on the efficient spatio-temporal learning of facial photoplethysmography (PPG) based on i) modelling of PPG dynamics by combinations of multiple convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Joaquim Comas , Adria Ruiz , Federico Sukno

The paper proposes accurate Blood Pressure Monitoring (BPM) based on a single-site Photoplethysmographic (PPG) sensor and provides an energy-efficient solution on edge cuffless wearable devices. Continuous PPG signal preprocessed and used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Wenrui Lin , Berken Utku Demirel , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque , G. P. Li

The focus of this paper is a proof of concept, machine learning (ML) pipeline that extracts heart rate from pressure sensor data acquired on low-power edge devices. The ML pipeline consists an upsampler neural network, a signal quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Preetam Anbukarasu , Shailesh Nanisetty , Ganesh Tata , Nilanjan Ray

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for the contactless estimation of physiological signals from facial videos by analyzing subtle skin color changes. However, rPPG signals are extremely susceptible to illumination changes, motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Arpan Bairagi , Rakesh Dey , Siladittya Manna , Umapada Pal

The use of observed wearable sensor data (e.g., photoplethysmograms [PPG]) to infer health measures (e.g., glucose level or blood pressure) is a very active area of research. Such technology can have a significant impact on health…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Suril Mehta , Nipun Kwatra , Mohit Jain , Daniel McDuff

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

With the ongoing heart problems of the population worldwide, the medical requirements of the people are expected to increase. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the proven to capture the heart response signal to assess the electrical and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Ayan Chatterjee , Sundar Gopalakrishnan , Martin Gerdes , Santiago Martinez , Nibedita Pahari , Pankaj Khatiwada

Heartbeat rhythm and heart rate (HR) are important physiological parameters of the human body. This study presents an efficient multi-hierarchical spatio-temporal convolutional network that can quickly estimate remote physiological (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Bin Li , Panpan Zhang , Jinye Peng , Hong Fu

Objective. Wearable devices with embedded photoplethysmography (PPG) enable continuous non-invasive monitoring of cardiac activity, offering a promising strategy to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular diseases. However, monitoring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Giulio Basso , Xi Long , Reinder Haakma , Rik Vullings

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

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent significant global health challenges today, necessitating regular and reliable monitoring to enable early intervention. Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals present a promising non-invasive method for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Abdul Ahad Mamun , Utsab Saha , Md Hasibul Hasan , Shahed Ahmed , MD Jahin Alam

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) captures cardiac signals from facial videos and is gaining attention for its diverse applications. While deep learning has advanced rPPG estimation, it relies on large, diverse datasets for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Joaquim Comas , Federico Sukno

In this paper we study the prediction of heart rate from acceleration using a wrist worn wearable. Although existing photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate sensors provide reliable measurements, they use considerably more energy than…

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

Remote heart rate estimation is the measurement of heart rate without any physical contact with the subject and is accomplished using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) in this work. rPPG signals are usually collected using a video camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Eugene Lee , Evan Chen , Chen-Yi Lee