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Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based foundation models are gaining traction due to the widespread use of PPG in biosignal monitoring and their potential to generalize across diverse health applications. In this paper, we introduce Pulse-PPG,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mithun Saha , Maxwell A. Xu , Wanting Mao , Sameer Neupane , James M. Rehg , Santosh Kumar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique for measuring human physiological signals. Due to its convenience and non-invasiveness, it has demonstrated broad application potential in areas such as health monitoring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhipeng Li , Kegang Wang , Hanguang Xiao , Xingyue Liu , Feizhong Zhou , Jiaxin Jiang , Tianqi Liu

Biometric authentication prospered because of its convenient use and security. Early generations of biometric mechanisms suffer from spoofing attacks. Recently, unobservable physiological signals (e.g., Electroencephalogram,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lin Li , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Leo Yu Zhang , Zhifeng Wang , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Heart rate (HR) estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is a key feature of modern wearable devices for health and wellness monitoring. While deep learning models show promise, their performance relies on the availability of…

Much of the information of breathing is contained within the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal, through changes in venous blood flow, heart rate and stroke volume. We aim to leverage this fact, by employing a novel deep learning framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Harry J. Davies , Danilo P. Mandic

Camera-based physiological measurement is a fast growing field of computer vision. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) utilizes imaging devices (e.g., cameras) to measure the peripheral blood volume pulse (BVP) via photoplethysmography, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xin Liu , Girish Narayanswamy , Akshay Paruchuri , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiankai Tang , Yuzhe Zhang , Soumyadip Sengupta , Shwetak Patel , Yuntao Wang , Daniel McDuff

Accurate extraction of heart rate from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals remains challenging due to motion artifacts and signal degradation. Although deep learning methods trained as a data-driven inference problem offer promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Christodoulos Kechris , Jonathan Dan , Jose Miranda , David Atienza

Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, typically acquired from wearable devices, hold significant potential for continuous fitness-health monitoring. In particular, heart conditions that manifest in rare and subtle deviating heart patterns may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ramin Ghorbani , Marcel J. T. Reinders , David M. J. Tax

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

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

Deep learning based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has shown promising results in various vision-based applications, recently also in camera-based vital signs monitoring. The CNN-based Photoplethysmography (PPG) extraction has, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Qi Zhan , Wenjin Wang , Gerard de Haan

Amongst all medical biometric traits, Photoplethysmograph (PPG) is the easiest to acquire. PPG records the blood volume change with just combination of Light Emitting Diode and Photodiode from any part of the body. With IoT and smart homes'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Umang Yadav , Sherif N Abbas , Dimitrios Hatzinakos

Blood Pressure (BP) is one of the four primary vital signs indicating the status of the body's vital (life-sustaining) functions. BP is difficult to continuously monitor using a sphygmomanometer (i.e. a blood pressure cuff), especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ali Tazarv , Marco Levorato

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…

Background: Sleep staging is a fundamental component in the diagnosis of sleep disorders and the management of sleep health. Traditionally, this analysis is conducted in clinical settings and involves a time-consuming scoring procedure.…

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

Heart rate is a physiological signal that provides information about an individual's health and affective state. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows the estimation of this signal from video recordings of a person's face. Classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bhargav Acharya , William Saakyan , Barbara Hammer , Hanna Drimalla

In this paper, we present a systematic literature review on deep generative models for physiological signals, particularly electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electromyogram (EMG). Compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Nour Neifar , Afef Mdhaffar , Achraf Ben-Hamadou , Mohamed Jmaiel

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

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…