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20222026
most citedFace2PPG: An unsupervised pipeline for blood volume pulse extraction from faces

9 citations · 19 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CV2026

Learning Multimodal Sensor Fusion with JEPA Representations for Breathing Activity and Pose Recognition

Yunxiang Luo, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Xiaoting Wu +4

Predictive video representations do not by themselves specify how a multimodal system should handle missing sensors. We transfer frozen V-JEPA2 features to a set of heterogeneous s…

cs.CV2026

Oracle headroom without signal: null-calibrated evaluation of candidate selection for thermal heart rate estimation

Mohammad Rakibur Rahman, Nhi Nguyen, Sasan Sharifipour +4

Camera-based physiological monitoring can produce multiple estimates from several facial regions, extraction methods, and processing settings. Signal quality indices aim to select…

cs.CV2026

GA-EIRFS: A Geometry-Augmented Repeat-Factor Sampling Method for Long-Tailed LiDAR 3D Object Detection

Taufiq Ahmed, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Daniel Herrera Castro +3

Long-tailed 3D object detection is treated as a class-frequency problem, but LiDAR supervision quality depends on object observability: similar frequencies can hide different geome…

cs.LG2026

Phenomenon-Graph JEPA: Label-Efficient Representation Learning for Contactless Cardiorespiratory Sensing

Constantino Álvarez Casado, Nhi Nguyen, Mohammad Rakibur Rahman +4

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar and RGB-D cameras can record cardiac and respiratory waveforms continuously and without contact, but labeled recordings remain scarce because every l…

cs.LG2026

Handwritten Digit Leakage from Smartphone Motion Sensors Across Unseen Users and Phone Models

Constantino Álvarez Casado, Erkka Rantahalvari, Matteo Pedone +6

Smartphone motion sensors support interactive applications, but their readings may also reveal touchscreen input beyond their intended use. Assuming known drawing intervals, we stu…

cs.CR2026

Selfie-Capture Dynamics as an Auxiliary Signal Against Deepfakes and Injection Attacks for Mobile Identity Verification

Erkka Rantahalvari, Olli Silvén, Zinelabidine Boulkenafet +1

Mobile remote identity verification (RIdV) systems are exposed to attacks that manipulate or replace the facial video stream, including presentation attacks, real-time deepfakes, a…

cs.CV2026

Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring

Constantino Álvarez Casado, Mohammad Rahman, Sasan Sharifipour +4

Human-machine interfaces in industrial automation need sensing modules that monitor operator actions and physiological state. This is important in factories, vehicles, machinery ca…

cs.LG2025

From Theory to Throughput: CUDA-Optimized APML for Large-Batch 3D Learning

Sasan Sharifipour, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Manuel Lage Cañellas +1

Loss functions are fundamental to learning accurate 3D point cloud models, yet common choices trade geometric fidelity for computational cost. Chamfer Distance is efficient but per…

cs.CV2025

Quality-Aware Framework for Video-Derived Respiratory Signals

Nhi Nguyen, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Le Nguyen +2

Video-based respiratory rate (RR) estimation is often unreliable due to inconsistent signal quality across extraction methods. We present a predictive, quality-aware framework that…

cs.CV2025

3DPCNet: Pose Canonicalization for Robust Viewpoint-Invariant 3D Kinematic Analysis from Monocular RGB cameras

Tharindu Ekanayake, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Miguel Bordallo López

Monocular 3D pose estimators produce camera-centered skeletons, creating view-dependent kinematic signals that complicate comparative analysis in applications such as health and sp…

cs.CV2025

LiDAR-based Human Activity Recognition through Laplacian Spectral Analysis

Sasan Sharifipour, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Le Nguyen +4

Human Activity Recognition supports applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and human-machine interaction. LiDAR point clouds offer a privacy-preserving alternative to cameras a…

cs.CV2025

APML: Adaptive Probabilistic Matching Loss for Robust 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction

Sasan Sharifipour, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Mohammad Sabokrou +1

Training deep learning models for point cloud prediction tasks such as shape completion and generation depends critically on loss functions that measure discrepancies between predi…

cs.CV2025

Exponentially Weighted Instance-Aware Repeat Factor Sampling for Long-Tailed Object Detection Model Training in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Surveillance Scenarios

Taufiq Ahmed, Abhishek Kumar, Constantino Álvarez Casado +5

Object detection models often struggle with class imbalance, where rare categories appear significantly less frequently than common ones. Existing sampling-based rebalancing strate…

eess.SP2024

Spatio-Temporal 3D Point Clouds from WiFi-CSI Data via Transformer Networks

Tuomas Määttä, Sasan Sharifipour, Miguel Bordallo López +1

Joint communication and sensing (JC\&S) is emerging as a key component in 5G and 6G networks, enabling dynamic adaptation to environmental changes and enhancing contextual awarenes…

cs.CV2024

OMuSense-23: A Multimodal Dataset for Contactless Breathing Pattern Recognition and Biometric Analysis

Manuel Lage Cañellas, Le Nguyen, Anirban Mukherjee +6

In the domain of non-contact biometrics and human activity recognition, the lack of a versatile, multimodal dataset poses a significant bottleneck. To address this, we introduce th…

cs.CV2024

Evaluation of Video-Based rPPG in Challenging Environments: Artifact Mitigation and Network Resilience

Nhi Nguyen, Le Nguyen, Honghan Li +2

Video-based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has emerged as a promising technology for non-contact vital sign monitoring, especially under controlled conditions. However, the acc…

cs.LG2024

Multi-objective Feature Selection in Remote Health Monitoring Applications

Le Ngu Nguyen, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Manuel Lage Cañellas +4

Radio frequency (RF) signals have facilitated the development of non-contact human monitoring tasks, such as vital signs measurement, activity recognition, and user identification.…

eess.SP2023★ 1 cited

Non-contact Multimodal Indoor Human Monitoring Systems: A Survey

Le Ngu Nguyen, Praneeth Susarla, Anirban Mukherjee +6

Indoor human monitoring systems leverage a wide range of sensors, including cameras, radio devices, and inertial measurement units, to collect extensive data from users and the env…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

A Cyberpunk 2077 perspective on the prediction and understanding of future technology

Miguel Bordallo López, Constantino Álvarez Casado

Science fiction and video games have long served as valuable tools for envisioning and inspiring future technological advancements. This position paper investigates the potential o…

cs.CV2023

Estimating exercise-induced fatigue from thermal facial images

Manuel Lage Cañellas, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Le Nguyen +1

Exercise-induced fatigue resulting from physical activity can be an early indicator of overtraining, illness, or other health issues. In this article, we present an automated metho…

cs.CV2023

Facial Kinship Verification from remote photoplethysmography

Xiaoting Wu, Xiaoyi Feng, Constantino Álvarez Casado +2

Facial Kinship Verification (FKV) aims at automatically determining whether two subjects have a kinship relation based on human faces. It has potential applications in finding miss…

eess.SP2023

Respiratory Disease Classification and Biometric Analysis Using Biosignals from Digital Stethoscopes

Constantino Álvarez Casado, Manuel Lage Cañellas, Matteo Pedone +3

Respiratory diseases remain a leading cause of mortality worldwide, highlighting the need for faster and more accurate diagnostic tools. This work presents a novel approach leverag…

cs.CV2023

Non-Contact Heart Rate Measurement from Deteriorated Videos

Nhi Nguyen, Le Nguyen, Constantino Álvarez Casado +2

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) offers a state-of-the-art, non-contact methodology for estimating human pulse by analyzing facial videos. Despite its potential, rPPG methods can…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Improving Depression estimation from facial videos with face alignment, training optimization and scheduling

Manuel Lage Cañellas, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Le Nguyen +1

Deep learning models have shown promising results in recognizing depressive states using video-based facial expressions. While successful models typically leverage using 3D-CNNs or…