分离生理信号频率成分,提升复杂环境下的无接触心率检测稳定性
PhysFlow: Frequency Decoupled with Dual-Field Rectified Flow for Remote Photoplethysmography

- 将脉搏信号分解为趋势与振幅分量,分别建模以减少干扰影响
- 在多个数据集上实现更优的心率估计与波形重建性能
- 适合需要高鲁棒性的远程健康监测场景使用
远程光电容积脉搏波描记法(rPPG)可从面部视频中无接触地估计心率,是健康监测的重要工具。然而,现有深度学习方法在光照变化、面部表情和头部运动等复杂干扰下常表现不佳,微弱的生理信号易被外部噪声掩盖,导致恢复的rPPG波形不稳定。主要原因在于多数方法统一建模rPPG信号,使不同成分耦合,难以在强干扰下保留微弱脉动特征。为此,本文提出PhysFlow,一种频域解耦的双场修正流框架,用于鲁棒rPPG估计。具体地,将真实rPPG信号分解为趋势与振幅分量,作为独立监督目标;基于提取的面部特征,学习两个分量特异的条件速度场,分别建模。该设计降低分量间相互干扰,增强复杂场景下的重建鲁棒性。此外,修正流形式支持仅需少数常微分方程(ODE)积分步骤即可高效重构波形。在多个基准数据集上的大量实验表明,PhysFlow在心率估计与rPPG波形重建方面均优于现有先进方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless pulse estimation from facial videos, serving as a vital tool for health monitoring. However, current deep learning methods often struggle under complex disturbances, particularly varying illumination, facial expressions, and unconstrained head movements. In such scenarios, subtle physiological signals are easily dominated by external interference, making the recovered rPPG waveform unstable and unreliable. One important reason is that most existing methods directly model the rPPG signal in a unified manner, where different signal components are coupled during reconstruction. This makes it difficult to preserve weak pulse-related variations when strong disturbance-induced changes are present. To address this challenge, we propose PhysFlow, a frequency-decoupled dual-field rectified flow framework tailored for robust rPPG estimation. Specifically, the ground-truth rPPG signal is decomposed into trend and amplitude components, which are used as separate supervisory targets. Based on the extracted facial features, PhysFlow learns two component-specific conditional velocity fields to model the two components separately. This design reduces mutual interference between different components and improves the robustness of rPPG reconstruction under complex disturbances. Moreover, the rectified flow formulation enables efficient waveform reconstruction with only a few ordinary differential equation (ODE) integration steps. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that PhysFlow outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both heart-rate estimation and rPPG waveform reconstruction across diverse challenging scenarios.
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