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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

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…

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

Recent studies showed that Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors embedded in wearable devices can estimate heart rate (HR) with high accuracy. However, despite of prior research efforts, applying PPG sensor based HR estimation to embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yuntong Zhang , Jingye Xu , Mimi Xie , Wei Wang , Keying Ye , Jing Wang , Dakai Zhu

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

Aligning physiological parameter labels with large-scale photoplethysmographic (PPG) data for deep learning is challenging and resource-intensive. While self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) can handle limited annotated data, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zexing Zhang , Huimin Lu , Songzhe Ma , Jianzhong Peng , Chenglin Lin , Niya Li , Bingwang Dong

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

Most of today's wearable technology provides seamless cardiac activity monitoring. Specifically, the vast majority employ Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to acquire blood volume pulse information, which is further analysed to extract…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jose A. Miranda , Celia López-Ongil , Javier Andreu-Perez

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an important technique for perceiving human vital signs, which has received extensive attention. For a long time, researchers have focused on supervised methods that rely on large amounts of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xin Liu , Yuting Zhang , Zitong Yu , Hao Lu , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely used non-invasive physiological sensing technique, suitable for various clinical applications. Such clinical applications are increasingly supported by machine learning methods, raising the question of…

With the growing application of deep learning in wearable devices, lightweight and efficient models are critical to address the computational constraints in resource-limited platforms. The performance of these approaches can be potentially…

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

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

Blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) is a vital marker for healthcare monitoring. Traditional SpO2 estimation methods often rely on complex clinical calibration, making them unsuitable for low-power, wearable applications. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Zequan Liang , Ruoyu Zhang , Wei Shao , krishna Karthik , Ehsan Kourkchi , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of stroke. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is used for AF detection, while photoplethysmography (PPG) is simple to use and appropriate for long-term monitoring. We have developed a novel approach to…

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) are commonly recorded in intesive care unit (ICU) and operating room (OR). However, the high incidence of poor, incomplete, and inconsistent signal quality, can lead to false alarms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zongheng Guo , Tao Chen , Manuela Ferrario

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

Heart rate monitoring using wrist-type photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals during subjects' intensive exercise is a difficult problem, since the signals are contaminated by extremely strong motion artifacts caused by subjects' hand…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Zhilin Zhang , Zhouyue Pi , Benyuan Liu

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical gold standard for cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment, yet continuous monitoring is constrained by the need for dedicated hardware and trained personnel. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is ubiquitous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xiaocheng Fang , Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Che Liu , Jieyi Cai , Yujie Xiao , Guangkun Nie , Bo Liu , Shun Huang , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Heart rate estimation from photoplethysmography (PPG) signals generated by wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers has significant implications for the health and well-being of individuals. Although prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kanav Arora , Girish Narayanswamy , Shwetak Patel , Richard Li