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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

Monitoring of cardiovascular activity is highly desired and can enable novel applications in diagnosing potential cardiovascular diseases and maintaining an individual's well-being. Currently, such vital signs are measured using intrusive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Mayank Gupta , Lingjun Chen , Denny Yu , Vaneet Aggarwal

Event-based imaging is a neurmorphic detection technique whereby an array of pixels detects a positive or negative change in light intensity at each pixel, and is hence particularly well suited to detecting motion. As compared to standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-16 Yugang Ren , Enrique Benedetto , Harry Borrill , Yelizaveta Savchuk , Molly Message , Katie O'Flynn , Muddassar Rashid , James Millen

Event-based cameras, inspired by the biological retina, have evolved into cutting-edge sensors distinguished by their minimal power requirements, negligible latency, superior temporal resolution, and expansive dynamic range. At present,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Han Wang , Yuman Nie , Yun Li , Hongjie Liu , Min Liu , Wen Cheng , Yaoxiong Wang

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

Event cameras, often referred to as dynamic vision sensors, are groundbreaking sensors capable of capturing changes in light intensity asynchronously, offering exceptional temporal resolution and energy efficiency. These attributes make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Mira Adra , Simone Melcarne , Nelida Mirabet-Herranz , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Today's fitness bands and smartwatches typically track heart rates (HR) using optical sensors. Large behavioral studies such as the UK Biobank use activity trackers without such optical sensors and thus lack HR data, which could reveal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Max Moebus , Lars Hauptmann , Nicolas Kopp , Berken Demirel , Björn Braun , Christian Holz

Sleep monitoring provides valuable insights into the general health of an individual and helps in the diagnostic of sleep-derived illnesses. Polysomnography, is considered the gold standard for such task. However, it is very unwieldy and…

Detecting monotonic changes in heart rate (HR) is crucial for early identification of cardiac conditions and health management. This is particularly important for dementia patients, where HR trends can signal stress or agitation. Developing…

Event cameras contain emerging, neuromorphic vision sensors that capture local light intensity changes at each pixel, generating a stream of asynchronous events. This way of acquiring visual information constitutes a departure from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Cian Ryan , Brian O Sullivan , Amr Elrasad , Joe Lemley , Paul Kielty , Christoph Posch , Etienne Perot

Infrared thermography has gained interest as a tool for non-contact measurement of blood circulation and skin blood flow due to cardiac activity. Partiularly, blood vessels on the surface, such as on the back of the hand, are suited for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nanami Kotani , Kuniharu Sakurada , Jiayi Xu , Masahiko Inami , Yasuaki Monnai

Bio-inspired neuromorphic cameras sense illumination changes on a per-pixel basis and generate spatiotemporal streaming events within microseconds in response, offering visual information with high temporal resolution over a high dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Pei Zhang , Shuo Zhu , Edmund Y. Lam

Neuromorphic vision sensors, or event cameras, differ from conventional cameras in that they do not capture images at a specified rate. Instead, they asynchronously log local brightness changes at each pixel. As a result, event cameras only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Paul Kielty , Cian Ryan , Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

PPG based heart rate (HR) monitoring has recently attracted much attention with the advent of wearable devices such as smart watches and smart bands. However, due to severe motion artifacts (MA) caused by wristband stumbles, PPG based HR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Mahmoud Essalat , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Farokh Marvasti

3D hand pose estimation from monocular videos is a long-standing and challenging problem, which is now seeing a strong upturn. In this work, we address it for the first time using a single event camera, i.e., an asynchronous vision sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Viktor Rudnev , Vladislav Golyanik , Jiayi Wang , Hans-Peter Seidel , Franziska Mueller , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Event cameras provide asynchronous, data-driven measurements of local temporal contrast over a large dynamic range with extremely high temporal resolution. Conventional cameras capture low-frequency reference intensity information. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Cedric Scheerlinck , Nick Barnes , Robert Mahony

Event Cameras, also known as Neuromorphic sensors, capture changes in local light intensity at the pixel level, producing asynchronously generated data termed ``events''. This distinct data format mitigates common issues observed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Khadija Iddrisu , Waseem Shariff , Noel E. OConnor , Joseph Lemley , Suzanne Little

Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Munda , Thomas Pock

We propose a novel heart rate (HR) estimation method from facial videos that dynamically adapts the HR pulse extraction algorithm to separately deal with noise from 'rigid' head motion and 'non-rigid' facial expression. We first identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Utkarsh Sharma , Terumi Umematsu , Masanori Tsujikawa , Yoshifumi Onishi

Thispaper presents the design and realization of a context-aware wireless health monitoring system for recording the heartbeat (HR) and respiration (RR) rate based on an indirect measurement approach. The system consists of a contact-less…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Amir Javadpour , HamidrezaMemarzadeh-Tehran