arXiv Machine Learning

A Low-Power Wearable Respiratory Sensor for Non-Invasive Stress Monitoring

arXiv:2608. 05697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiration provides a continuously available window into physiological state and behavior.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

BCG-FM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Cardiac Health Sensing

arXiv:2606. 07692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for wearable biosignals have matched or exceeded supervised specialists across a range of clinical tasks, yet all rely on modalities that require deliberate user action--wearing a device or visiting a sleep lab.

By Magnus Ruud Kjaer, Haejun Han, Ashish Neupane, David Q. Sun
arXiv AI
Sep 25

When Temporal Perturbations Act Like Sensor Biases: Label-Free Auditing of Wearable Activity Recognizers

The paper introduces SpectrumAudit, a label‑sealed auditing method for wearable human‑activity recognition models that uses phase‑randomized full‑window stimuli to probe sensor biases. By replaying the DC component and a zero‑mean residual on held‑out subjects, the audit demonstrates significant accuracy drops across 27 victim models, with DC perturbations proving more harmful than AC in most cases. The study also shows that the audit can distinguish between persistent sensor offsets and zero‑mean variations under a fixed peak‑budget.

By Qingyu Wu, Yuan Wei, Renju Liu, Hua Cheng
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Physically-Constrained Harmonic Separation for Robust Heart and Respiratory Rate Estimation from Wrist Photoplethysmography

Wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) enables continuous monitoring of cardiopulmonary physiology, but reliable heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) estimation in free-living conditions remains challenging due to non-stationary motion artifacts that spectrally overlap with physiological dynamics. Existing signal-processing methods degrade under strong motion, while unconstrained deep learning approaches often lack physiological interpretability and identifiable structure.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

State-Specific Respiratory Signatures for Affective and Stress Recognition: Interpretable Respiratory Markers, Autocorrelation Lags, and Compact CNN Models

arXiv:2606. 26723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiratory activity is a direct and interpretable physiological channel for wearable stress and affective-state recognition, yet many studies emphasize classification accuracy without identifying which respiratory properties separate different states.

By Andrei Velichko, Mehmet Tahir Huyut
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

WearableQA: A Benchmark for Health Reasoning over Real-World Wearable Data

WearableQA is a new benchmark that tests AI systems on health reasoning using real-world wearable data from 200 users, each with up to 500 days of daily measurements. It contains 4,084 ten‑option multiple‑choice questions derived from wearable time series, blood biomarkers, and demographics, and is organized into 16 question types that distinguish data‑driven computation from physiological interpretation and single‑signal from cross‑signal reasoning. Evaluation of 14 large language models shows wide performance gaps, indicating that the benchmark remains challenging and useful for diagnosing model capabilities.

By Ji Soo Lee, Xilun Chen, Pierce Chuang, Ashish Shenoy, Jason Wei, Dohwan Ko, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Benoit Corda
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Single-Beat Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Ear-PPG and ECG with a Lightweight Hybrid Learning Framework

arXiv:2607. 27076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring remains challenging due to motion artifacts, physiological variability, and the limited robustness of conventional pulse transit time (PTT) models under dynamic conditions.

By Kindeep K. Dhatt, Tengyue Wu, Hanbang Hua, Yayun Du
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Spectral Features Dominate BCG Respiratory-Event Detection: A Large-Scale Patient-Independent Comparison of Feature Groups in Sleep Apnea Patients

arXiv:2608.28242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unobtrusive ballistocardiographic (BCG) sensing is a promising modality for long-term sleep-apnea monitoring, yet it remains unclear which signal featu...

By Israel Campero Jurado, Zoe Bousraou, Lara Benning, Sara Padilla Neira, Alexander Breuss, Robert Riener, Esther Irene Schwarz, Elisabeth Wilhelm
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Physically-Constrained Harmonic Separation for Robust Heart and Respiratory Rate Estimation from Wrist Photoplethysmography

arXiv:2606. 30156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) enables continuous monitoring of cardiopulmonary physiology, but reliable heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) estimation in free-living conditions remains challenging due to non-stationary motion artifacts that spectrally overlap with physiological dynamics.

By Nouhaila Fraihi, Ouassim Karrakchou, Mounir Ghogho