The study examined how well physiological properties from contact photoplethysmography (PPG) can be recovered by camera-based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) across 655 recordings. Using the CHROM method, the authors found that while heart‑rate estimates showed modest accuracy, other dynamic measures such as autocorrelation, spectral content, and Lyapunov exponents largely failed to preserve recording‑specific characteristics. They also observed that lighting and motion influence endpoint accuracy, yet these factors did not explain the lack of dynamical correspondence.
By Timothy Oladunni, Farouk Ganiyu-Adewumi
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
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
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.