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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact technique for measuring cardiac signals from facial videos. High-quality rPPG pulse signals are urgently demanded in many fields, such as health monitoring and emotion recognition.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Rencheng Song , Huan Chen , Juan Cheng , Chang Li , Yu Liu , Xun Chen

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

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

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) aims to measure physiological signals and Heart Rate (HR) from facial videos. Recent unsupervised rPPG estimation methods have shown promising potential in estimating rPPG signals from facial regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Pei-Kai Huang , Tzu-Hsien Chen , Ya-Ting Chan , Kuan-Wen Chen , Chiou-Ting Hsu

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

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…

Recent advancements in data-driven approaches for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) have significantly improved the accuracy of remote heart rate estimation. However, the performance of such approaches worsens considerably under video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joaquim Comas , Adria Ruiz , Federico Sukno

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), which aims at measuring heart activities without any contact, has great potential in many applications (e.g., remote healthcare). Existing rPPG approaches rely on analyzing very fine details of facial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Zitong Yu , Wei Peng , Xiaobai Li , Xiaopeng Hong , Guoying Zhao

Smartphone-based heart rate (HR) monitoring apps using finger-over-camera photoplethysmography (PPG) face significant challenges in performance evaluation and device compatibility due to device variability and fragmentation. Manual testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ming-Zher Poh , Jonathan Wang , Jonathan Hsu , Lawrence Cai , Eric Teasley , James A. Taylor , Jameson K. Rogers , Anupam Pathak , Shwetak Patel

Hypertension is a medical condition characterized by high blood pressure, and classifying it into its various stages is crucial to managing the disease. In this project, a novel method is proposed for classifying stages of hypertension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Graham Frederick , Yaswant T , Brintha Therese A

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

High-frequency physiological waveform modality offers deep, real-time insights into patient status. Recently, physiological foundation models based on Photoplethysmography (PPG), such as PPG-GPT, have been shown to predict critical events,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Saurabh Kataria , Davood Fattahi , Minxiao Wang , Ran Xiao , Matthew Clark , Timothy Ruchti , Mark Mai , Xiao Hu

Camera-based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) provides a non-contact way to measure physiological signals (e.g., heart rate) using facial videos. Recent deep learning architectures have improved the accuracy of such physiological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yunhao Ba , Zhen Wang , Kerim Doruk Karinca , Oyku Deniz Bozkurt , Achuta Kadambi

Photoplethysmography is a non-invasive optical technique that measures changes in blood volume within tissues. It is commonly and increasingly used for in a variety of research and clinical application to assess vascular dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marton A. Goda , Peter H. Charlton , Joachim A. Behar

Camera-based physiological monitoring, especially remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), is a promising tool for health diagnostics, and state-of-the-art pulse estimators have shown impressive performance on benchmark datasets. We argue that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Benjamin Sporrer , Lu Niu , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

Heartbeat rhythm and heart rate (HR) are important physiological parameters of the human body. This study presents an efficient multi-hierarchical spatio-temporal convolutional network that can quickly estimate remote physiological (rPPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Bin Li , Panpan Zhang , Jinye Peng , Hong Fu

Neural network models have demonstrated impressive performance in predicting pathologies and outcomes from the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, these models often need to be trained with large, labelled datasets, which are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Aniruddh Raghu , Divya Shanmugam , Eugene Pomerantsev , John Guttag , Collin M. Stultz

Remote photo-plethysmography (rPPG) uses a camera to estimate a person's heart rate (HR). Similar to how heart rate can provide useful information about a person's vital signs, insights about the underlying physio/psychological conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Amogh Gudi , Marian Bittner , Jan van Gemert

Objective: The use of deep learning for electroencephalography (EEG) classification tasks has been rapidly growing in the last years, yet its application has been limited by the relatively small size of EEG datasets. Data augmentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Cédric Rommel , Joseph Paillard , Thomas Moreau , Alexandre Gramfort

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…