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Neuromorphic cameras, also known as event-based cameras, can detect changes in the environmental brightness asynchronously and independently for each pixel. They output the brightness changes, i.e., events, as 3-D (2-D pixel coordinates +…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Shimpei Harada , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for noncontact monitoring of blood volume changes from a camera by detecting minor fluctuations in reflected light. Prior applications of rPPG focused on face videos. In this paper we explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lu Niu , Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Adam Czajka , Patrick Flynn

Heart rate (HR) is a crucial physiological signal that can be used to monitor health and fitness. Traditional methods for measuring HR require wearable devices, which can be inconvenient or uncomfortable, especially during sleep and…

In this study, we make non-invasive, remote, passive measurements of the heart beat frequency and determine the map of blood pulsation intensity in a region of interest (ROI) of skin. The ROI used was the forearm of a volunteer. The method…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Pedro Henrique de M. Borges , George C. Cardoso

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

A non-invasive yet inexpensive method for heart rate (HR) monitoring is of great importance in many real-world applications including healthcare, psychology understanding, affective computing and biometrics. Face videos are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Puneet Gupta , Brojeshwar Bhowmick , Arpan Pal

Event camera is an emerging bio-inspired vision sensors that report per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously. It holds noticeable advantage of high dynamic range, high speed response, and low power budget that enable it to best capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhanpeng Shao , Wen Zhou , Wuzhen Wang , Jianyu Yang , Youfu Li

This paper presents a novel method for remote heart rate (HR) estimation. Recent studies have proved that blood pumping by the heart is highly correlated to the intense color of face pixels, and surprisingly can be utilized for remote HR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Mohammad Sabokrou , Masoud Pourreza , Xiaobai Li , Mahmood Fathy , Guoying Zhao

Recognizing faces and their underlying emotions is an important aspect of biometrics. In fact, estimating emotional states from faces has been tackled from several angles in the literature. In this paper, we follow the novel route of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Continuous, ubiquitous monitoring through wearable sensors has the potential to collect useful information about users' context. Heart rate is an important physiologic measure used in a wide variety of applications, such as fitness tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nutta Homdee , Mehdi Boukhechba , Yixue W. Feng , Natalie Kramer , John Lach , Laura E. Barnes

Using mobile phone video of the fingertip as a data source for estimating vital signs such as heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) during daily life has long been suggested. While existing literature indicates that these estimates are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ibne Farabi Shihab

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the non-contact based detection of the respiration rate from video sequences. Common techniques either directly assess the movement of the chest due to breathing or are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Fabian Schrumpf , Christoph Moench , Gerold Bausch , Mirco Fuchs

Neuromorphic "event" cameras, designed to mimic the human vision system with asynchronous sensing, unlock a new realm of high-speed and high dynamic range applications. However, researchers often either revert to a framed representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Andrew C. Freeman , Montek Singh , Ketan Mayer-Patel

In an effort to make biosignal integration more accessible to explore for more HCI researchers, this paper presents our investigation of how well a standard, near ubiquitous webcam can support remote sensing of heart rate and respiration…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Christoph Tremmel , Indu Bodala , M. C. Schraefel

Event cameras offering high dynamic range and low latency have emerged as disruptive technologies in imaging. Despite growing research on leveraging these benefits for different imaging tasks, a comprehensive study of recently advances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yunfan Lu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengteng Li , Yusheng Wang , Yi Cui , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alexey Protopopov

Robot manipulation is a common task in fields like industrial manufacturing. Detecting when objects slip from a robot's grasp is crucial for safe and reliable operation. Event cameras, which register pixel-level brightness changes at high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Thilo Reinold , Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

Proliferation of cheap and accessible cameras makes it possible to measure a subject's breath rate from video footage alone. Recent works on this topic have proposed a variety of approaches for accurately measuring human breath rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Alexey Protopopov

Neuromorphic event-based cameras are bio-inspired visual sensors with asynchronous pixels and extremely high temporal resolution. Such favorable properties make them an excellent choice for solving state estimation tasks under aggressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xiuyuan Lu , Yi Zhou , Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Shaojie Shen