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Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearable health monitoring, yet large PPG foundation models remain difficult to deploy on resource-limited devices. We present PPG-Distill, a knowledge distillation framework that transfers both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Juntong Ni , Saurabh Kataria , Shengpu Tang , Carl Yang , Xiao Hu , Wei Jin

Analyzing the cardiovascular system condition via Electrocardiography (ECG) is a common and highly effective approach, and it has been practiced and perfected over many decades. ECG sensing is non-invasive and relatively easy to acquire,…

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

Hypertension is a potentially unsafe health ailment, which can be indicated directly from the Blood pressure (BP). Hypertension always leads to other health complications. Continuous monitoring of BP is very important; however, cuff-based…

Multi-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have found widespread adoption in wearable devices for monitoring cardiac health. Channels thereby serve different functions -- whereas green is commonly used for metrics such as heart rate…

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

Despite the population of the noninvasive, economic, comfortable, and easy-to-install photoplethysmography (PPG), it is still lacking a mathematically rigorous and stable algorithm which is able to simultaneously extract from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Antonio Cicone , Hau-Tieng Wu

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities and physiological signals from facial video without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare and affective computing). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zitong Yu , Yuming Shen , Jingang Shi , Hengshuang Zhao , Yawen Cui , Jiehua Zhang , Philip Torr , Guoying Zhao

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a method of detecting variation in blood volume commonly through contact with the skin and involving the usage of one or multiple sensors. PPG is typically used in health-related fields and one of its most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Jiesheng He , Wei Wu

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

Purpose. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technique that measures changes in blood flow volume through optical means. Previous research has established the feasibility of PPG peak detection based on the crossover of moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Cesar Abascal Machado , Victor O. Costa , Cesar Augusto Prior , Cesar Ramos Rodrigues

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple and inexpensive technology used in many smart devices to monitor cardiovascular health. The PPG sensors use LED lights to penetrate into the bloodstream to detect the different blood volume changes in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Irene Pi , Isleen Pi , Wei Wu

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely used non-invasive sensing modality for continuous cardiovascular and physiological monitoring across clinical, laboratory, and wearable settings. While existing PPG datasets support a broad range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hung Manh Pham , Jinyang Wu , Xiao Ma , Yiming Zhang , Yixin Xu , Aaqib Saeed , Bin Zhu , Zhou Pan , Dong Ma

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals have become a key technology in many fields, such as medicine, well-being, or sports. Our work proposes a set of pipelines to extract remote PPG signals (rPPG) from the face robustly, reliably, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Constantino Álvarez Casado , Miguel Bordallo López

Cuffless blood pressure screening based on easily acquired photoplethysmography (PPG) signals offers a practical pathway toward scalable cardiovascular health assessment. Despite rapid progress, existing PPG-based blood pressure estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Neville Mathew , Yidan Shen , Renjie Hu , Maham Rahimi , George Zouridakis

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a cost-effective and non-invasive technique that utilizes optical methods to measure cardiac physiology. PPG has become increasingly popular in health monitoring and is used in various commercial and clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Khuong Vo , Mostafa El-Khamy , Yoojin Choi

Continuous cardiovascular monitoring can play a key role in precision health. However, some fundamental cardiac biomarkers of interest, including stroke volume and cardiac output, require invasive measurements, e.g., arterial pressure…

Phonocardiography has recently gained popularity in low-cost and remote monitoring, including passive fetal heart monitoring. Development for methods which analyse phonocardiographical data try to capitalize on this opportunity, and in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Kristóf Müller , Janka Hatvani , Miklós Koller , Márton Áron Goda

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities and physiological signals from facial video without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare and affective computing). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zitong Yu , Yuming Shen , Jingang Shi , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip Torr , Guoying Zhao

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

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