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Instantaneous Physiological Estimation using Video Transformers

24 Feb 2022arXiv:2202.12368archive 2025-07-28

Ambareesh Revanur, Ananyananda Dasari, Conrad S. Tucker, Laszlo A. Jeni

Video-based physiological signal estimation has been limited primarily to predicting episodic scores in windowed intervals. While these intermittent values are useful, they provide an incomplete picture of patients' physiological status and may lead to late detection of critical conditions. We propose a video Transformer for estimating instantaneous heart rate and respiration rate from face videos. Physiological signals are typically confounded by alignment errors in space and time. To overcome this, we formulated the loss in the frequency domain. We evaluated the method on the large scale Vision-for-Vitals (V4V) benchmark. It outperformed both shallow and deep learning based methods for instantaneous respiration rate estimation. In the case of heart-rate estimation, it achieved an instantaneous-MAE of 13.0 beats-per-minute.

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