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Respiratory rate (RR) is a key vital sign for clinical assessment and mental well-being, yet it is rarely monitored in everyday life due to the lack of unobtrusive sensing technologies. In-ear audio sensing is promising due to its high…

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), a family of techniques for monitoring blood volume changes, may be especially useful for widespread contactless health monitoring using face video from consumer-grade visible-light cameras. The COVID-19…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

Heart-rate estimation is a fundamental feature of modern wearable devices. In this paper we propose a machine intelligent approach for heart-rate estimation from electrocardiogram (ECG) data collected using wearable devices. The novelty of…

Heart murmurs provide valuable information about mechanical activity of the heart, which aids in diagnosis of various heart valve diseases. This work does automatic and accurate heart murmur detection from phonocardiogram (PCG) recordings.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Ahmed Patwa , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

With the increase in health consciousness, noninvasive body monitoring has aroused interest among researchers. As one of the most important pieces of physiological information, researchers have remotely estimated the heart rate (HR) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Ying Qiu , Yang Liu , Juan Arteaga-Falconi , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

In this paper, a novel ECG monitoring approach based on IoT technology is suggested. This paper proposes a routing system for IoT healthcare platforms based on Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Routing by Energy and Link Quality (REL). In…

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Human respiration rate (HRR) is an important physiological metric for diagnosing a variety of health conditions from stress levels to heart conditions. Estimation of HRR is well-studied in controlled terrestrial environments, yet robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Demetrious T. Kutzke , Junaed Sattar

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have been widely used in consumer wearable devices to monitor heart rates (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV). Despite the prevalence, PPG signals can be contaminated by motion artifacts induced from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chunsheng Zuo , Yu Zhao , Juntao Ye

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a non-invasive technology that measures changes in blood volume in the microvascular bed of tissue. It is commonly used in medical devices such as pulse oximeters and wrist worn heart rate monitors to monitor…

This Data Descriptor presents a fully open, multi-modal dataset for estimating vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) from consumer-grade Apple Watch sensors with laboratory force plate ground truth. Ten healthy adults aged 26--41 years…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Parvin Ghaffarzadeh , Debarati Chakraborty , Koorosh Aslansefat , Ali Dostan , Yiannis Papadopoulos

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

Conventional electromyography (EMG) measures the continuous neural activity during muscle contraction, but lacks explicit quantification of the actual contraction. Mechanomyography (MMG) and accelerometers only measure body surface motion,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zijing Zhang , Edwin C. Kan

We propose an end-to-end framework to measure people's vital signs including Heart Rate (HR), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Oxygen Saturation (SpO2) and Blood Pressure (BP) based on the rPPG methodology from the video of a user's face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Donghao Qiao , Amtul Haq Ayesha , Farhana Zulkernine , Raihan Masroor , Nauman Jaffar

Background: Several studies have shown that both respiratory and cardiac motion can be extracted from the Pilot Tone (PT) signal successfully. However, most of these studies were performed in healthy volunteers. In addition, validating PT…

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This work proposes for the first time to utilize the regular smartphone -- a popular assistive gadget -- to design a novel, non-invasive method for self-monitoring of one's hydration level on a scale of 1 to 4. The proposed method involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Rose Alaslani , Levina Perzhilla , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is the process of estimating PPG from facial videos. While this approach benefits from contactless interaction, it is reliant on videos of faces, which often constitutes an important privacy concern.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Divij Gupta , Ali Etemad

Respiratory diseases account for a significant portion of global mortality. Affordable and early detection is an effective way of addressing these ailments. To this end, a low-cost commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), IEEE 802.15.4z standard…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Anton Lambrecht , Stijn Luchie , Jaron Fontaine , Ben Van Herbruggen , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter

We present the findings of an experimental study whereby we correlate the changes in the morphology of the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal to healthy aging. Under this pretext, we estimate the biological age of a person as well as the age…

Recent advances in wearable technology have enabled the continuous monitoring of vital physiological signals, essential for predictive modeling and early detection of extreme physiological events. Among these physiological signals, heart…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-13 Vaibhav Gupta , Maria Maleshkova

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and sustained hypertension is an often silent risk factor, making cuffless continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring with wearable devices important for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yiqiao Chen , Fazheng Xu , Zijian Huang , Juchi He , Zhenghui Feng