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The high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) calls for accessible and cost-effective continuous cardiac monitoring tools. Despite Electrocardiography (ECG) being the gold standard, continuous monitoring remains a challenge, leading…

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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…

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Perceptual quality assessment of user generated content (UGC) videos is challenging due to the requirement of large scale human annotated videos for training. In this work, we address this challenge by first designing a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shankhanil Mitra , Rajiv Soundararajan

Despite widespread adoption of smartwatches worldwide, open-benchmarks for wrist-based gesture recognition remain surprisingly limited. In this work, we introduce the first open-access multi-modal benchmark, OpenWatch, for wrist-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pietro Bonazzi , Youssef Ahmed , Daniel Eckert , Andrea Ronco , Junjie Zeng , Dengxin Dai , Michele Magno

High-quality image segmentation is fundamental to pixel-level geospatial analysis in remote sensing, necessitating robust segmentation quality assessment (SQA), particularly in unsupervised settings lacking ground truth. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bingnan Yang , Mi Zhang , Zhili Zhang , Zhan Zhang , Yuanxin Zhao , Xiangyun Hu , Jianya Gong

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

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…

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…

In clinical settings, monitoring hemodynamics is crucial for managing patient prognosis, necessitating the integrated analysis of multiple physiological signals. While recent research has analyzed single signals such as electrocardiography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Seong-A Park , Jong-Eui Chae , Sungdong Kim , Hyung-Chul Lee , Hyun-Lim Yang

This paper introduces a simple yet powerful approach based on topological data analysis (TDA) for detecting the true steps in a piecewise constant (PWC) signal. The signal is a two-state square wave with randomly varying in-between-pulse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-09 Firas A. Khasawneh , Elizabeth Munch

Supervised deep learning-based hash and vector quantization are enabling fast and large-scale image retrieval systems. By fully exploiting label annotations, they are achieving outstanding retrieval performances compared to the conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Young Kyun Jang , Nam Ik Cho

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a non-contact method that uses facial video to predict changes in blood volume, enabling physiological metrics measurement. Traditional rPPG models often struggle with poor generalization capacity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yiping Xie , Zitong Yu , Bingjie Wu , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Extracting information from the electrocardiography (ECG) signal is an essential step in the design of digital health technologies in cardiology. In recent years, several machine learning (ML) algorithms for automatic extraction of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Adrian Atienza , Jakob Bardram , Sadasivan Puthusserypady

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed vision encoder training in general domains but remains underutilized in medical imaging due to limited data and domain specific biases. We present MammoDINO, a novel SSL framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sicheng Zhou , Lei Wu , Cao Xiao , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

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

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact, continuous monitoring of physiological signals and offers a practical alternative to traditional health sensing methods. Although rPPG is promising for daily health monitoring, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xulin Ma , Jiankai Tang , Zhang Jiang , Songqin Cheng , Yuanchun Shi , Dong LI , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Xiaojing Liu , Yuntao Wang

Wearable devices enable theoretically continuous, longitudinal monitoring of physiological measurements like step count, energy expenditure, and heart rate. Although the classification of abnormal cardiac rhythms such as atrial fibrillation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Jessica Torres Soto , Euan Ashley

A limiting factor towards the wide routine use of wearables devices for continuous healthcare monitoring is their cumbersome and obtrusive nature. This is particularly true for electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which require the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Laura M. Ferrari , Guy Abi Hanna , Paolo Volpe , Esma Ismailova , François Bremond , Maria A. Zuluaga

Our research introduces a groundbreaking approach to stress classification through Photoplethysmogram (PPG) signals. By combining Continuous Wavelet Transformation (CWT) with the proven VGG16 classifier, our method enhances stress…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yasin Hasanpoor , Bahram Tarvirdizadeh , Khalil Alipour , Mohammad Ghamari