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EfficientPhys: Enabling Simple, Fast and Accurate Camera-Based Vitals Measurement

9 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.04447archive 2025-07-28

Xin Liu, Brian L. Hill, Ziheng Jiang, Shwetak Patel, Daniel McDuff

Camera-based physiological measurement is a growing field with neural models providing state-the-art-performance. Prior research have explored various "end-to-end" models; however these methods still require several preprocessing steps. These additional operations are often non-trivial to implement making replication and deployment difficult and can even have a higher computational budget than the "core" network itself. In this paper, we propose two novel and efficient neural models for camera-based physiological measurement called EfficientPhys that remove the need for face detection, segmentation, normalization, color space transformation or any other preprocessing steps. Using an input of raw video frames, our models achieve strong performance on three public datasets. We show that this is the case whether using a transformer or convolutional backbone. We further evaluate the latency of the proposed networks and show that our most light weight network also achieves a 33% improvement in efficiency.

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Face DetectionPhotoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-T1 MAE 3.04 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-T1 MAPE (%) 3.91% #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-T1 Pearson Correlation 0.92 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-T1 RMSE 5.91 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-C MAE 3.48 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-C MAPE (%) 4.02% #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-C Pearson Correlation 0.86 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation MMSE-HR EfficientPhys-C RMSE 7.21 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-C MAE 1.14 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-C MAPE (%) 1.16% #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-C Pearson Correlation 0.99 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-C RMSE 1.81 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-T1 MAE 2.08 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-T1 MAPE (%) 2.53% #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-T1 Pearson Correlation 0.96 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate estimation UBFC-rPPG EfficientPhys-T1 RMSE 4.91 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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