Heart Rate Datasets

PPG and ECG datasets for heart rate estimation and validation research. Found 40 datasets.

AFPDB

PhysioNet afpdb 1.0.0 (Moody / Goldberger / McClennen / Swiryn). Learning records n (no documented AF) and p (PAF subjects, with 5-min continuation c showing PAF onset on even-numbered precede records...

Signals: ecgSubjects: 98
AI-READI

Artificial Intelligence Ready and Exploratory Atlas for Diabetes Insights. Versioned releases on FAIRhub: v1.0.0 (2024-05-03, DOI 10.60775/fairhub.1), v2.0.0 (2024-11-08, DOI 10.60775/fairhub.2; 1,067...

Signals: hr, spo2, accelSubjects: 2280
Auricle

Benchmark built to compare wearable cardiovascular monitors on one common, high-rate dataset. All sensors run on one BIOPAC MP160 at 10 kHz, then downsampled to 1 kHz. Stressors change hemodynamics: b...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 70PPG Site: finger, ear
Bed-Based BCG (Carlson, K-State)

Kansas State University (Carlson, Turpin, Suliman, Ade, Warren, Thompson). Paper: Sensors 2021, 21, 156, https://doi.org/10.3390/s21010156.

Signals: bcg, ecg, ppgSubjects: 40PPG Site: finger
BIDMC PPG and Respiration (Pimentel 2016 / PhysioNet)

Not re-downloaded.

Signals: ppg, ecg, respSubjects: 53
BrisT1D-Open

BrisT1D was conducted by Sam Gordon James, Miranda Armstrong, Aisling O'Kane, Harry Emerson, and Zahraa Abdallah at the University of Bristol. Participants used smartwatches alongside their T1D self-m...

Signals: hr, cgm, stepsSubjects: 24
Brno University of Technology Smartphone PPG Database (BUT PPG)
Signals: ppg, ecgSubjects: 50PPG Site: face-camera, finger
DOSE-I

DOSE-I (Garbe / Kantelhardt / Seeliger / Schmid; Universitätsmedizin Halle). Prospective single-center endoscopy sedation study (DRKS00016605; May 2019–Jul 2021). Export via MIB/RS232 + ixTrend Expres...

Signals: ppg, ecg, eegSubjects: 171
EarSet
Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 30PPG Site: ear
Finger-contact ECG + dual-wavelength (660/940 nm) PPG, rest + post-exercise recovery (n=148, 444 records)

Missed: S2/OpenAlex never run (MDPI Data not in arXiv/PubMed filters).

Signals: ppg, ecgSubjects: 148
GalaxyPPG

Semi-naturalistic wrist PPG dataset collected at KAIST with a consumer smartwatch and a research-grade wristband recording simultaneously, plus a chest ECG reference. Published as a Scientific Data de...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 24PPG Site: wrist
Gyro-Acc-PPG (BAMI-I, Wonkwang)

Hooseok Lee, Heewon Chung, Jinseok Lee (BAMI Lab, Wonkwang University). Paper: "Motion Artifact Cancellation in Wearable Photoplethysmography Using Gyroscope", IEEE Sensors Journal, doi 10.1109/JSEN.2...

Signals: ppg, accel, gyroSubjects: 24
HealthRing RingDatasetV2.1

Tang, Wang, Ding, Ji, Wang, Wang, Zhang, Chen, Gao, Shi, Wang. HealthRing: Physiology Dataset for Health Sensing on Rings. Sci Data (2026), doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07289-x.

Signals: ppg, accel, ecgSubjects: 54PPG Site: finger, ring
HEART-Watch
Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 40
IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 (TROIKA)

Zhang et al. (TROIKA; arXiv 1409.5181). Used for the IEEE SPC 2015 heart-rate challenge.

Signals: ppg, accel, ecgSubjects: 12
IRIDIA-AF

Gilon et al., Scientific Data companion release (Nature Sci Data article linked from Zenodo). Zenodo record 8405941 v1.0.1 (accessright=open, license.id=cc-by-4.0). GitHub: cedricgilon/iridia-af.

Signals: ecgSubjects: 152
Kingston ICU AF

Nassar / Maghsoodi / Chen / Maslove / Sibley / Laird / Mousavi (Queen’s / KHSC). Archival ICU monitors 2015–2020; one random 10 s strip per labelled patient. Companion TBME 2026 benchmarks: 10.1109/TB...

Signals: ecgSubjects: 596
MAIBO

MAIBO (Chen / Li / Liu / Wang / Shi / Gao / Qiu / Tu / Wang / Wang / Dai / Chen; Shanghai Jiao Tong University + Mianyang Central Hospital). Zenodo record 19440421 (published 2026-04-06, V1). Companio...

Signals: ppgSubjects: 1086PPG Site: finger, ring
MIMIC-III-Ext-PPG

Curated extract from MIMIC-III Waveform Database Matched Subset (Moulaeifard / Charlton / Strodthoff). Segments end at rhythm chart events (≤15 min lookback). Sci Data companion: 10.1038/s41597-026-07...

Signals: ppg, ecg, respSubjects: 6189PPG Site: finger
MOODS

Neupane et al., "Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations", CHI '24 (DOI 10.1145/3613904.3642662; arXiv 2401.16307). Participants wore a Fossil Sport WearOS watch for 100 days; the wat...

Signals: ppg, accelSubjects: 122
MPMRD

Treadmill running from 30 healthy runners (8 female, 22 male). Each did five incremental relative-pace trials prescribed from individual VDOT, about 3 min per pace. Synchronized: VICON optical motion ...

Signals: hrSubjects: 30 (8 F / 22 M healthy runners)
MPU-rPPG

Chen, Tan, Yu, Jiang, Wang, Gao, Sun (Macao Polytechnic University, Great Bay University). Sci Data 13:1216 (2026), DOI 10.1038/s41597-026-07310-3, PMC13500808. Ethics: Zhuhai People's Hospital ZH2025...

Signals: video, ppg, spo2Subjects: 50PPG Site: face-camera, finger
Multi-site PPG (Earring / Necklace / Ring / Watch)

In-the-wild physiological dataset from four custom wearables worn simultaneously at earring, necklace, ring, and watch (wrist) positions, with a Polar H10 chest ECG reference. arXiv 2026 (arXiv:2605.1...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelPPG Site: ear, neck, ring, wrist
Muse 2 forehead PPG vs Polar H10 concurrent validity (HR / ultra-short RMSSD)

Griadhi, Suadnyana, Wahyuni (Universitas Dhyana Pura). Title on the record: Data and code for: Muse 2 forehead photoplethysmography agrees with Polar H10 for heart rate but overestimates ultra-short R...

Signals: ppgSubjects: 28PPG Site: forehead
MW-PPG-HR

Manchester Metropolitan University benchmark for PPG-based HR estimation, published Figshare 2026-03-05. Explicitly built to fix cohort-diversity and wavelength gaps in existing resources. Companion p...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 20PPG Site: wrist
OSASUD

OSASUD (Bernardini / Brunello / Gigli / Montanari / Saccomanno; Udine University Hospital stroke unit + University of Udine). Simultaneous overnight Mindray vital-signs monitoring and Embletta level-3...

Signals: ppg, ecg, spo2Subjects: 30PPG Site: finger
PAMAP2

PAMAP2 (Physical Activity Monitoring for Aging People 2) released via UCI ML Repository (DOI 10.24432/C5NW2H). Protocol + optional sessions as .dat files (54 columns). Introductory papers: Reiss & Str...

Signals: accel, gyro, magnetometerSubjects: 9
PPG-DaLiA

PPG-DaLiA (Reiss / Indlekofer / Schmidt / Van Laerhoven lineage; Uni-Siegen). Daily-life activities with wrist PPG+accel and chest physiological reference. USI page: https://ubi29.informatik.uni-siege...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 15PPG Site: wrist
PPG-Sport

PPG-Sport (Hu / Pham / … / Ma), Proc. ACM IMWUT 2026, DOI 10.1145/3810216. First large public wrist-PPG sports set targeting non-periodic, high-intensity, bilaterally asymmetric motion.

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 30PPG Site: wrist
Pulsewatch

Pulsewatch is a Synapse-hosted clinical/ambulatory AF monitoring dataset and companion code release (UConn / PulsewatchRelease). Companion ICASSP 2025 training/eval code documents 30 s PPG/HR/ACC prod...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 106PPG Site: wrist
SHDB-AF

SHDB-AF (Tsutsui / Biton Brimer / Behar et al.; Sci Data 2025 10.1038/s41597-025-04777-4). Built to stress-test AF event detection under distribution shift. Collected May 2019–May 2023 (Saitama).

Signals: ecgSubjects: 122
Stillness 2025 (Deichman)

Stillness 2025 Deichman (Jensenius / Serdar / Guo / Bjerkestrand / Johnson / Rao; University of Oslo / RITMO). Zenodo concept 21840411; latest version 1.0.4 record 21964815 (2026-08-16). Part of Oslo ...

Signals: ecg, accel, respSubjects: 16
UTSA-PPG

12 subjects × 3 scenarios (sit/sleep/office), ≥30 min each; wrist green + finger IR/red + accel + ECG ref.

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 12PPG Site: finger, wrist
VitalVideos

P.-J. Toye (VitalVideos, Belgium). Europe-1 is described in arXiv 2306.11891: 850 participants, two 30-s videos each, synchronized PPG, one BP reading.

Signals: ppgSubjects: 850
WenXinWuYang

Synchronized PPG and single-lead ECG from a handheld consumer device; labels come from the device's ECG algorithms. AnyPPG (arXiv 2511.01747, supplement) describes it. The device itself is validated i...

Signals: ppg, ecg
WESAD

WESAD (Schmidt / Reiss / Duerichen / Marberger / Van Laerhoven), ICMI 2018. Lab study with baseline / stress / amusement states plus questionnaires.

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 15PPG Site: wrist
WF-PPG

Ho, Pham, Saeed, Ma. WF-PPG: A Wrist-finger Dual-Channel Dataset for Studying the Impact of Contact Pressure on PPG Morphology. Scientific Data (2025), doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04453-7.

Signals: ppg, ecg, spo2Subjects: 27PPG Site: finger, wrist
WildPPG

ETH Zürich (Siplab) real-world PPG dataset — NeurIPS 2024 Datasets & Benchmarks. Four custom devices worn simultaneously at head, sternum, wrist, ankle during a full-day outdoor trip from Zurich to Ju...

Signals: ppg, ecg, accelSubjects: 16PPG Site: ankle, chest, forehead, wrist
Yunnan dual-wavelength PPG + ECG + pressure pulse wave (102 subj, 1000 Hz)

Data descriptor-style release; quality checked by HR-consistency screening (accuracy 86.63%, precision 100%, per record).

Signals: ppg, ecg, pressureSubjects: 102
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