The study examined how well specific physiological properties of contact photoplethysmography (PPG) can be recovered when converted to camera-derived remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) across 655 recordings. Using the CHROM method, the authors found that while overall heart‑rate accuracy was modest, many dynamic properties (e.g., autocorrelation, spectral measures, Lyapunov exponents) showed little recording‑specific correspondence, and differences varied with skin tone and observation conditions. The results demonstrate that preserving individual recording characteristics depends on the property and conditions, and population‑level agreement does not guarantee individual‑level fidelity.
Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors are complementary but individually fragile: motion artifact, poor contact, and sensor dropout can degrade one or both signals. Fus...
CardioFusion-AI is a framework for robust fusion of ECG and PPG signals in wearable physiological monitoring. Its signal‑processing front end, featuring R‑peak and systolic‑peak detection, an Orphanidou‑type signal‑quality index, and beat‑by‑beat pulse transit time estimation, was validated on 53 intensive‑care recordings and a fetal ECG database. In a controlled synthetic degradation study, attention fusion achieved the lowest overall error, while adaptive gates reallocated weight toward the healthy modality under complete loss, and signal‑quality conditioning improved performance when PPG was missing.
By Navaneetha Krishnan Kamalakannan, Janakiraman Kamalakannan
The paper introduces Heartian, a physiology‑aware framework that augments Gaussian head avatars with cardiac‑cycle‑dependent albedo modulation, enabling the encoding of remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals. By supervising with synchronized contact PPG, the method models the cardiac waveform as a sum of two Gaussians and learns per‑frame spatial residuals via a lightweight MLP. Experiments on 152 stationary recordings from UBFC‑rPPG, PURE, and MMPD show heart‑rate estimation errors as low as 0.29 bpm MAE and 0.38 % MAPE, while preserving reconstruction quality with negligible PSNR loss.
By Xiaoyue Fan, Jose Echevarria, Akshay Paruchuri, Kaan Ak\c{s}it
Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless pulse estimation from facial videos, serving as a vital tool for health monitoring. However, current deep learning methods often struggle under complex disturbances, particularly varying illumination, facial expressions, and unconstrained head movements.
arXiv:2606. 13839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) transformers achieve low heart-rate error on benchmarks, yet their decisions remain opaque--a growing concern as rPPG moves toward clinical heart rate estimation.
By Louis Chen, Torbj\"orn E. M. Nordling