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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

Efficient and accurate evaluation of long-term photoplethysmography (PPG) recordings is essential for both clinical assessments and consumer products. In 2021, the top opensource peak detectors were benchmarked on the Multi-Ethnic Study of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Márton Á. Goda , Peter H. Charlton , Joachim A. Behar

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) is a common tool for monitoring cardiopulmonary health. Relying on absorption or reflectance of light by hemoglobin in the blood, the measured PPG waveform can be analyzed per heart beat using physiological…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-08 Saud Lingawi , Garrett Frank , Benedictus H. Kartawidjaja , Mahsa Khalili , Brian Kwon , Calvin Kuo

Wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) is embedded in billions of devices, yet its optical waveform is easily corrupted by motion, perfusion loss, and ambient light, jeopardizing downstream cardiometric analytics. Existing signal-quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Wei Shao , Ruoyu Zhang , Zequan Liang , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bo Zhao , Dan Guo , Junzhe Cao , Yong Xu , Bochao Zou , Tao Tan , Yue Sun , Zitong Yu

In order to obtain insights into the feasibility of replacing ECG-guided triggering in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by a system based on video photoplethysmography (PPG), PPG and ECG data were collected from volunteers in an MRI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 A. C. den Brinker , H. H. Der Sarkissian , J. H. Wülbern , B. Balmaekers , M. Padalko , J. Sénégas , R. Springorum , C. Possanzini

Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

We investigated the beat-to-beat fluctuation of the photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform. The motivation is that morphology variability extracted from the arterial blood pressure (ABP) has been found to correlate with baseline condition and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Yu-Chieh Ho , Te-Sheng Lin , She-Chih Wang , Chen-Shi Chang , Yu-Ting Lin

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has gained significant attention in recent years for its ability to extract physiological signals from facial videos. While existing rPPG measurement methods have shown satisfactory performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Qian Liang , Yan Chen , Yang Hu

We present for the first time a novel method that utilizes the chest movement-modulated radio signals for non-contact acquisition of the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. Under the proposed method, a software-defined radio (SDR) exposes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Israel Jesus Santos Filho , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati , Tareq Al-Naffouri

Most deep learning models of multiclass arrhythmia classification are tested on fingertip photoplethysmographic (PPG) data, which has higher signal-to-noise ratios compared to smartwatch-derived PPG, and the best reported sensitivity value…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Dong Han , Jihye Moon , Luís Roberto Mercado Díaz , Darren Chen , Devan Williams , Eric Y. Ding , Khanh-Van Tran , David D. McManus , Ki H. Chon

Physiological responses are nowadays widely used to recognize the affective state of subjects in real-life scenarios. However, these data are intrinsically subject-dependent, making machine learning techniques for data classification not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Francesca Gasparini , Alessandra Grossi , Marta Giltri , Stefania Bandini

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) captures cardiac signals from facial videos and is gaining attention for its diverse applications. While deep learning has advanced rPPG estimation, it relies on large, diverse datasets for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Joaquim Comas , Federico Sukno

Remote estimation of vital signs enables health monitoring for situations in which contact-based devices are either not available, too intrusive, or too expensive. In this paper, we present a modular, interpretable pipeline for pulse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R. Shenoy , Shaoju Wu , Armand Comas , Tim K. Marks , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour

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

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

Continuous photoplethysmography (PPG)-based blood pressure monitoring is necessary for healthcare and fitness applications. In Artificial Intelligence (AI), signal classification levels with the machine and deep learning arrangements need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nida Nasir , Mustafa Sameer , Feras Barneih , Omar Alshaltone , Muneeb Ahmed

Unsupervised remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) promises to leverage unlabeled video data, but its potential is hindered by a critical challenge: training on low-quality "in-the-wild" videos severely degrades model performance. An essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianyang Dai , Ming Chang , Yan Chen , Yang Hu

This paper studies the problem of reproducible research in remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Most of the work published in this domain is assessed on privately-owned databases, making it difficult to evaluate proposed algorithms in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Guillaume Heusch , André Anjos , Sébastien Marcel