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ArticleBiomedical engineering letters2025

Diffusion-Phys: noise-robust heart rate estimation from facial videos via diffusion models.

Yong-Hoon Jeong, Young-Seok Choi

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Yong-Hoon JeongDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826 Republic of Korea.
Young-Seok ChoiDepartment of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, 01897 Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8292-7093

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers significant potential for health monitoring and emotional analysis through non-contact physiological measurement from facial videos. However, noise remains a crucial challenge, limiting the generalizability of current rPPG methods. This paper introduces Diffusion-Phys, a novel framework using diffusion models for robust heart rate (HR) estimation from facial videos. Diffusion-Phys employs Multi-scale Spatial-Temporal Maps (MSTmaps) to preprocess input data and introduces Gaussian noise to simulate real-world conditions. The model is trained using a denoising network for accurate HR estimation. Experimental evaluations on the VIPL-HR, UBFC-rPPG and PURE datasets demonstrate that Diffusion-Phys achieves comparable or superior performance to state-of-the-art methods, with lower computational complexity. These results highlight the effectiveness of explicitly addressing noise through diffusion modeling, improving the reliability and generalization of non-contact physiological measurement systems.

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Diffusion modelHR estimationNon-contact physiological measurementrPPG

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