Robust Zero-Shot Remote Heart Rate Estimation via Global–Local Contrastive Learning

In preparation

Intended venue
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics
Author role
Co-first author
Year
2026

Research approach

Aligns global and local pulse spectra from facial video to learn representations without heart-rate labels.

Results

Manuscript MAE: 1.09 bpm on UBFC-rPPG, 0.26 on PURE and 2.19 on COHFACE. These are separate from kiosk field errors.

Heart-rate errors reported in the GLCL manuscript
GLCL manuscript evaluation MAE (bpm) RMSE (bpm)
UBFC-rPPG 1.09 1.72
PURE 0.26 0.42
COHFACE 2.19 5.83
InterpretationDataset results reported in the manuscript. Device latency and field error at kiosk deployments are outside this evaluation.
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