# A Reproducible Study on Remote Heart Rate Measurement

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00962 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.00962/

## Key facts

- Cited by 51 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 Sep 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 51)

- [The Way to my Heart is through Contrastive Learning: Remote Photoplethysmography from Unlabelled Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09748/) (2021)
- [MMPD: Multi-Domain Mobile Video Physiology Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03840/) (2023)
- [Camera Measurement of Physiological Vital Signs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11547/) (2021)
- [RhythmFormer: Extracting Patterned rPPG Signals based on Periodic Sparse Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.12788/) (2024)
- [SCAMPS: Synthetics for Camera Measurement of Physiological Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.04197/) (2022)
- [Learning Motion-Robust Remote Photoplethysmography through Arbitrary Resolution Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.16922/) (2022)
- [Image Enhancement for Remote Photoplethysmography in a Low-Light Environment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.09336/) (2023)
- [Face2PPG: An unsupervised pipeline for blood volume pulse extraction from faces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.04101/) (2022)
- [Deception Detection and Remote Physiological Monitoring: A Dataset and Baseline Experimental Results](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06583/) (2021)
- [Advancing Generalizable Remote Physiological Measurement through the Integration of Explicit and Implicit Prior Knowledge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.06947/) (2024)
- [egoPPG: Heart Rate Estimation from Eye-Tracking Cameras in Egocentric Systems to Benefit Downstream Vision Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.20879/) (2025)
- [PhysMLE: Generalizable and Priors-Inclusive Multi-task Remote Physiological Measurement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.06201/) (2024)
- [DeepFace-Attention: Multimodal Face Biometrics for Attention Estimation with Application to e-Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.05523/) (2024)
- [PhysDrive: A Multimodal Remote Physiological Measurement Dataset for In-vehicle Driver Monitoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.19172/) (2025)
- [Assessment of Deep Learning-based Heart Rate Estimation using Remote Photoplethysmography under Different Illuminations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.13193/) (2021)
- [Fully Test-Time rPPG Estimation via Synthetic Signal-Guided Feature Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13322/) (2024)
- [Summit Vitals: Multi-Camera and Multi-Signal Biosensing at High Altitudes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.19223/) (2024)
- [Non-contact PPG Signal and Heart Rate Estimation with Multi-hierarchical Convolutional Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.02260/) (2021)
- [MSPM: A Multi-Site Physiological Monitoring Dataset for Remote Pulse, Respiration, and Blood Pressure Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.02224/) (2024)
- [SFDA-rPPG: Source-Free Domain Adaptive Remote Physiological Measurement with Spatio-Temporal Consistency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.12040/) (2024)
- [Gaze into the Heart: A Multi-View Video Dataset for rPPG and Health Biomarkers Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.17924/) (2025)
- [OMuSense-23: A Multimodal Dataset for Contactless Breathing Pattern Recognition and Biometric Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.06137/) (2024)
- [DD-rPPGNet: De-interfering and Descriptive Feature Learning for Unsupervised rPPG Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.21402/) (2024)
- [Semi-rPPG: Semi-Supervised Remote Physiological Measurement with Curriculum Pseudo-Labeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.03855/) (2025)
- [Dual Attention Network for Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.00390/) (2021)
- [Automatic Infant Respiration Estimation from Video: A Deep Flow-based Algorithm and a Novel Public Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.13110/) (2023)
- [Evaluation of Video-Based rPPG in Challenging Environments: Artifact Mitigation and Network Resilience](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.01230/) (2024)
- [Remote Pulse Estimation in the Presence of Face Masks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.04096/) (2021)
- [Hiding Your Signals: A Security Analysis of PPG-based Biometric Authentication](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.04434/) (2022)
- [Remote Bio-Sensing: Open Source Benchmark Framework for Fair Evaluation of rPPG](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.12644/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper studies the problem of reproducible research in remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Most of the work published in this domain is assessed on privately-owned databases, making it difficult to evaluate proposed algorithms in a standard and principled manner. As a consequence, we present a new, publicly available database containing a relatively large number of subjects recorded under two different lighting conditions. Also, three state-of-the-art rPPG algorithms from the literature were selected, implemented and released as open source free software. After a thorough, unbiased experimental evaluation in various settings, it is shown that none of the selected algorithms is precise enough to be used in a real-world scenario.