31 January 2024 Standardized rPPG signal generation based on generative adversarial networks
Xiaoguang Tu, Yuang Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Bokai Liu, Jianhua Liu, Xia Lei, Luopeng Xu, Xinyu Zhu, Yu Wang, Yi Huang
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Abstract

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is an optical technique that measures physiological signals from facial videos by analyzing subtle changes in the skin blood volume. However, rPPG signals generated in practical applications are easily affected by external environmental factors and the state of individuals, leading to irregular waveform variations that increase the difficulty in heart rate estimation. To improve the regularity of generated rPPG signals, we propose a standardized rPPG signal generation method. Specifically, facial videos are fed into the generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to predict a rough rPPG signal by supervised learning. In addition, a mathematical signal synthesizer model is used to generate noise-free standardized rPPG signals, which are subsequently fed into a discriminator along with the predicted signal for adversarial learning. This enables the generator to learn more standardized waveforms. As a result, the predicted signal waveform by the generator becomes closer to the waveform distribution of real rPPG signals. The proposed method is validated on the widely used MAHNOB-HCI, UBFC-rPPG, and MMSE-HR databases and shows significant improvements in the prediction accuracy and signal-to-noise ratio.

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Xiaoguang Tu, Yuang Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Bokai Liu, Jianhua Liu, Xia Lei, Luopeng Xu, Xinyu Zhu, Yu Wang, and Yi Huang "Standardized rPPG signal generation based on generative adversarial networks," Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(1), 013032 (31 January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.33.1.013032
Received: 4 August 2023; Accepted: 11 January 2024; Published: 31 January 2024
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KEYWORDS
Signal generators

Signal processing

Video

Heart

Adversarial training

Interference (communication)

Education and training

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