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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

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a promising solution for non-contact driver monitoring by detecting subtle blood flow-induced facial color changes from video. However, motion artifacts in dynamic driving environments remain key…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Đorđe D. Nešković , Kristina Stojmenova Pečečnik , Jaka Sodnik , Nadica Miljković

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used as a non-invasive and accessible modality for continuous health monitoring. However, despite being a peripheral hemodynamic signal intrinsically coupled with systemic circulation, existing research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Guangkun Nie , Xiaocheng Fang , Gongzheng Tang , Yujie Xiao , Jun Li , Bo Liu , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

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

With applications ranging from metabolomics to histopathology, quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) is a powerful label-free imaging modality. Despite significant advances in fast multiplexed imaging sensors and deep-learning-based inverse…

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

Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The ability to diagnose and treat hypertension in the ambulatory population is hindered by limited access and poor adherence to current methods of monitoring blood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Theodore Curran , Chengqian Ma , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Girish Narayanswamy , George Stergiou , Shwetak Patel , Eugene Yang

Amongst all medical biometric traits, Photoplethysmograph (PPG) is the easiest to acquire. PPG records the blood volume change with just combination of Light Emitting Diode and Photodiode from any part of the body. With IoT and smart homes'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Umang Yadav , Sherif N Abbas , Dimitrios Hatzinakos

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

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Shyam A , Vignesh Ravichandran , Preejith S. P , Jayaraj Joseph , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Camera-based monitoring of vital signs, also known as imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG), has seen applications in driver-monitoring, perfusion assessment in surgical settings, affective computing, and more. iPPG involves sensing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Vineet R Shenoy , Suhas Lohit , Hassan Mansour , Rama Chellappa , Tim K. Marks

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…

Numerous real-world applications have been driven by the recent algorithmic advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Healthcare is no exception and AI technologies have great potential to revolutionize the industry. Non-contact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xin Liu , Shwetak Patel , Daniel McDuff

Current foundation model for photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is challenged by the intrinsic redundancy and noise of the signal. Standard masked modeling often yields trivial solutions while contrastive methods lack morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zongheng Guo , Tao Chen , Yang Jiao , Yi Pan , Xiao Hu , Manuela Ferrario

Advances in wearable computing and AI have increased interest in leveraging PPG for health monitoring over the past decade. One of the biggest challenges in developing health algorithms based on such biosignals is the sparsity of clinical…

Despite the population of the noninvasive, economic, comfortable, and easy-to-install photoplethysmography (PPG), it is still lacking a mathematically rigorous and stable algorithm which is able to simultaneously extract from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-05 Antonio Cicone , Hau-Tieng Wu

Recent advances in supervised deep learning methods are enabling remote measurements of photoplethysmography-based physiological signals using facial videos. The performance of these supervised methods, however, are dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hao Wang , Euijoon Ahn , Jinman Kim

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

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

Human computer interaction has become integral to modern life, driven by advancements in machine learning technologies. Affective computing, in particular, has focused on systems that recognize, interpret, and respond to human emotions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Karim Alghoul , Hussein Al Osman , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik