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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) holds great promise for continuous heart-rate monitoring of drivers in intelligent vehicles. However, its performance is severely degraded by the highly dynamic illumination changes. A critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jieying Wang , Xinqi Cai , Caifeng Shan , Wenjin Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing healthcare by improving diagnosis, patient care, and decision support through interactive communication. More recently, they have been applied to analyzing physiological time-series like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Mohammad Feli , Iman Azimi , Pasi Liljeberg , Amir M. Rahmani

PPG-based Blood Pressure (BP) estimation is a challenging biosignal processing task for low-power devices such as wearables. State-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained for this task implement either a PPG-to-BP signal-to-signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Alessio Burrello , Francesco Carlucci , Giovanni Pollo , Xiaying Wang , Massimo Poncino , Enrico Macii , Luca Benini , Daniele Jahier Pagliari

Photoplethsmography (PPG)-based individual identification aiming at recognizing humans via intrinsic cardiovascular activities has raised extensive attention due to its high security and resistance to mimicry. However, this kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Riling Wei , Hanjie Chen , Kelu Yao , Chuanguang Yang , Jun Wang , Chao Li

Wearable physiological monitors are ubiquitous, and photoplethysmography (PPG) is the standard low-cost sensor for measuring cardiac activity. Metrics such as inter-beat interval (IBI) and pulse-rate variability (PRV) -- core markers of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yuna Watanabe , Natasha Yamane , Aarti Sathyanarayana , Varun Mishra , Matthew S. Goodwin

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart rate measurement from facial videos, but its performance is significantly degraded by facial motions such as speaking and head shaking. To address this issue, we propose two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gan Pei , Junhao Ning , Boqiu Shen , Yan Zhu , Menghan Hu

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a promising technique to monitor physiological signals such as heart rate from facial videos. However, the labeled facial videos in this research are challenging to collect. Current rPPG research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bingjie Wu , Zitong Yu , Yiping Xie , Wei Liu , Chaoqi Luo , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Human health can be critically affected by cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, arrhythmias, and stroke. Heart rate and blood pressure are important biometric information for the monitoring of cardiovascular system and early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gyutae Hwang , Sang Jun Lee

Atrial fibrillation (AF), a common cardiac arrhythmia, significantly increases the risk of stroke, heart disease, and mortality. Photoplethysmography (PPG) offers a promising solution for continuous AF monitoring, due to its cost efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Runze Yan , Cheng Ding , Ran Xiao , Aleksandr Fedorov , Randall J Lee , Fadi Nahab , Xiao Hu

This report introduces VitalLens 2.0, a new deep learning model for estimating physiological signals from face video. This new model demonstrates a significant leap in accuracy for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), enabling the robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Philipp V. Rouast

Smartwatches or fitness trackers have garnered a lot of popularity as potential health tracking devices due to their affordable and longitudinal monitoring capabilities. To further widen their health tracking capabilities, in recent years…

We present a lightweight neural model for remote heart rate estimation focused on the efficient spatio-temporal learning of facial photoplethysmography (PPG) based on i) modelling of PPG dynamics by combinations of multiple convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Joaquim Comas , Adria Ruiz , Federico Sukno

Architectural improvements are studied for convolutional network performing estimation of heart rate (HR) values on color signal patches. Color signals are time series of color components averaged over facial regions recorded by webcams in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Mikhail Kopeliovich , Yuriy Mironenko , Mikhail Petrushan

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

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

Opto-physiological monitoring including photoplethysmography (PPG) provides non-invasive cardiac and respiratory measurements, yet motion artefacts (MAs) during physical activity degrade its signal quality and downstream estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Xiaoyu Zheng , Sijung Hu , Vincent Dwyer , Mahsa Derakhshani , Laura Barrett

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

In this paper we study the prediction of heart rate from acceleration using a wrist worn wearable. Although existing photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate sensors provide reliable measurements, they use considerably more energy than…

Continuous monitoring of blood pressure (BP) and hemodynamic parameters such as peripheral resistance (R) and arterial compliance (C) are critical for early vascular dysfunction detection. While photoplethysmography (PPG) wearables has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yaowen Zhang , Libera Fresiello , Peter H. Veltink , Dirk W. Donker , Ying Wang

Respiratory rate (RR) serves as an indicator of various medical conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases and sleep disorders. These RR estimation methods were mostly designed for finger-based PPG collected from subjects in stationary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Kianoosh Kazemi , Iman Azimi , Pasi Liljeberg , Amir M. Rahmani