PPG dataset usage

Most-used PPG signal datasets.

PPG-DaLiA is the most-used PPG dataset in the ChatPPG research hub: 28 papers and 19 models published here link to it. The rest of the top five are WESAD (44), VitalDB (42), MESA Sleep (28) and PulseDB v2.0 (28). This ranking covers the 69 of 117 ranked datasets that record PPG, with 415 links from published papers and models.

69 PPG datasets · 255 paper links · 160 model links

Last updated Nov 2, 2026

69 datasets

Most-used PPG datasets, ranked by published papers and models that link to them
									Signals / tasks
#1	PPG-DaLiA	28	19	47	1	0	22	Scientific, non-commercial use with credit to the owners	PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · Resp Signal quality under motion, Heart rate estimation
#2	WESAD	28	16	44	1	0	21	Scientific, non-commercial use with credit to the owners	PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · Resp Mental workload assessment, Heart rate estimation, Stress detection, Emotion recognition, Panic sympathetic arousal, Sympathetic arousal
#3	VitalDB	30	12	42	5	2	7	CC BY 4.0 (PhysioNet release)	PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP · CO₂ Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#4	MESA Sleep	21	7	28	5	0	5	NSRR Data Access and Use Agreement	PSG · PPG · ECG · EEG · Resp · Accel Sleep staging
#4	PulseDB v2.0	20	8	28	2	0	4	Split by folder: PulseDB_MIMIC files under ODbL 1.0 (contents under DbCL 1.0); PulseDB_Vital files and the subset/Info files under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	PPG · ECG · ABP Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#6	BIDMC PPG and Respiration (Pimentel 2016 / PhysioNet)	10	6	16	1	0	3	ODC-By 1.0	PPG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂ Heart rate estimation, SpO₂ estimation
#6	Stanford wrist PPG AF (DeepBeat)	9	7	16	—	—	—	Non-commercial data use agreement (data); GPL-3.0 (code)	PPG Atrial fibrillation detection
#8	Brno University of Technology Smartphone PPG Database (BUT PPG)	9	5	14	1	0	4	CC BY 4.0	PPG · ECG Non-invasive glucose estimation, Heart rate estimation
#9	Cleveland Family Study (CFS)	5	4	9	3	0	2	Not stated	PSG · PPG Sleep staging
#10	UCI Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation (UCI 340; Kachuee 2015)	6	2	8	0	0	6	Not stated	PPG · ABP · ECG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#11	PPG-BP Database (Guilin / Liang 2018)	4	3	7	0	0	3	CC0 1.0	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#11	PURE	2	5	7	0	2	2	Not stated	Video · PPG
#13	DREAMT	5	1	6	0	0	3	PhysioNet Restricted Health Data License 1.5.0	PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · PSG Sleep staging
#13	Long-term ECG and wrist PPG with annotated AF episodes (AFPPGECG)	4	2	6	0	0	3	Zenodo lists the licence as Other (Non-Commercial)	PPG · ECG · Accel Atrial fibrillation detection
#13	MIMIC-III Waveform MATCHED	3	3	6	—	—	—	ODbL 1.0	PPG · ABP Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#13	VitalVideos	3	3	6	0	0	4	Not stated	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation, SpO₂ estimation
#13	WildPPG	3	3	6	0	0	3	Data: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Code: GPL-3.0	PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · BARO Signal quality under motion, Heart rate estimation
#18	MOODS	2	3	5	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · Accel Mental workload assessment, Human activity recognition, Heart rate estimation, Stress detection, Panic sympathetic arousal
#18	Samsung AFib/PVC study	2	3	5	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Atrial fibrillation detection
#18	SDB	2	3	5	0	0	2	CC BY 4.0	PPG · SpO₂ SpO₂ skin-tone fairness, SpO₂ estimation
#21	MIMIC-BP	4	0	4	0	0	1	Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0.	PPG · ABP · ECG · Resp Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#21	MIMIC-III-Ext-PPG	3	1	4	0	0	2	PhysioNet Credentialed Health Data License 1.5.0	PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP Atrial fibrillation detection, Cuffless blood pressure estimation, Signal quality under motion
#21	Gyro-Acc-PPG (BAMI-I, Wonkwang)	2	2	4	0	0	3	Not stated	PPG · Accel · Gyro · ECG Heart rate estimation, Signal quality under motion
#21	IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 (TROIKA)	2	2	4	1	0	2	CC BY 4.0	PPG · Accel · ECG Heart rate estimation, Signal quality under motion
#21	MIMIC PERform	2	2	4	—	—	—	ODbL	PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP Atrial fibrillation detection
#21	UCSF ICU bedside-monitor waveforms (private; GPT-PPG / SiamQuality / SQUWA pretraining)	2	2	4	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Resp Atrial fibrillation detection, Signal quality under motion
#21	Samsung BP free-living study	1	3	4	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#21	Samsung BP lab study	1	3	4	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#21	Samsung Galaxy Watch PPG pretraining corpus (~32K users, ~17M 10-s segments; private)	1	3	4	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Foundation-model pretraining
#21	MMPD	0	4	4	0	1	2	Academic use only; commercial banned (Data Usage Protocol / release agreement)	Video · PPG
#31	ECSMP	3	0	3	—	—	—	CC BY 4.0	PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · EEG Emotion recognition, Heart rate estimation
#31	BIG IDEAs Lab Glycemic Variability and Wearable Device Data	2	1	3	1	0	0	Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0	PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · CGM Non-invasive glucose estimation
#31	OpenWatch	2	1	3	—	—	—	Not stated	Accel · Gyro · PPG Human activity recognition
#31	COHFACE	1	2	3	0	1	1	COHFACE EULA	Video · PPG · Resp
#31	EarSet	1	2	3	0	0	1	CC BY 4.0	PPG · ECG · Accel · Gyro · Resp Heart rate estimation
#31	Pulse Transit Time PPG	1	2	3	0	0	1	ODbL 1.0	PPG · ECG · Accel · Gyro Cuffless blood pressure estimation, SpO₂ skin-tone fairness, Signal quality under motion, SpO₂ estimation
#37	Autism Inpatient Collection (AIC)	2	0	2	0	1	1	Not stated	PPG · EDA · Accel Stress detection, Panic sympathetic arousal, Sympathetic arousal
#37	K-EmoCon	2	0	2	—	—	—	Restricted access (request on Zenodo); no license listed	PPG · Accel · EDA · Skin temp · ECG · EEG · HR Mental workload assessment, Stress detection, Panic sympathetic arousal
#37	Pulsewatch	2	0	2	0	1	2	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Accel Atrial fibrillation detection
#37	Bed-Based BCG (Carlson, K-State)	1	1	2	—	—	—	CC BY 4.0	BCG · ECG · PPG · Resp · Bp continuous Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#37	EEVR	1	1	2	0	0	2	Not stated	PPG · EDA Emotion recognition
#37	Human Sleep Project (BDSP)	1	1	2	2	0	0	Not stated	PSG · PPG Sleep staging
#37	MIMIC-IV Waveform Database (PhysioNet preview)	1	1	2	0	0	1	Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0 (ODbL 1.0)	PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#37	nuMoM2b	1	1	2	0	0	2	Not stated	PSG · PPG Sleep apnea (OSA) screening, Pregnancy
#37	PPGArrhythmia (Liu 2022)	1	1	2	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Atrial fibrillation detection
#37	STAGES	1	1	2	1	0	0	Not stated	PSG · EEG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂ · PPG · Accel Sleep staging, Sleep apnea (OSA) screening
#37	UQVitalSigns	1	1	2	—	—	—	CC BY-NC 3.0	PPG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂ · CO₂ · BP SpO₂ skin-tone fairness, SpO₂ estimation
#37	UTSA-PPG	1	1	2	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Accel Heart rate estimation
#37	WenXinWuYang	1	1	2	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG Heart rate estimation
#50	CapnoBase IEEE TBME RR benchmark (Karlen 2013)	1	0	1	—	—	—	Custom terms specific to this dataset	PPG · ECG · Resp Heart rate estimation
#50	CRHE	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#50	EmpaticaE4Stress (workplace cognitive stress)	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA Mental workload assessment, Stress detection, Panic sympathetic arousal
#50	GalaxyPPG	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp Signal quality under motion, Panic sympathetic arousal, Sympathetic arousal
#50	Long-term ECG + wrist PPG with annotated AF episodes (Bacevičius 2024, Zenodo)	1	0	1	—	—	—	Other (Non-Commercial)	PPG · ECG · Accel Atrial fibrillation detection
#50	MW-PPG-HR	1	0	1	0	0	1	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Accel SpO₂ skin-tone fairness, Vascular age, SpO₂ estimation
#50	OpenOximetry Repository (PhysioNet Restricted)	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG · SpO₂ · ABP · Etco2 SpO₂ skin-tone fairness, SpO₂ estimation
#50	OSASUD	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · ECG · SpO₂ · HR · Resp · PSG Heart rate estimation, SpO₂ estimation, Sleep apnea (OSA) screening
#50	PPG-Signal-Dataset (USC Cali)	1	0	1	—	—	—	CC BY 4.0	PPG Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#50	Real-World PPG Dataset (Siam et al. / Mendeley)	1	0	1	—	—	—	CERN OHL version 1.2	PPG
#50	Sensors Aguirre 2021	1	0	1	—	—	—	CC BY 4.0	PPG · ABP Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#50	TILES-2018	1	0	1	0	0	1	Not stated	PPG · IMU · ECG Stress detection, Panic sympathetic arousal
#50	UBFC-Phys	1	0	1	0	0	1	Not stated	EDA · Ppg bvp · Video face Mental workload assessment, Stress detection, Emotion recognition, Panic sympathetic arousal
#50	μDPad	1	0	1	0	0	1	Not stated	PPG · Accel · Gyro Human activity recognition
#50	τ-Ring dataset (thuhci/RingTool)	1	0	1	—	—	—	Not stated	Accel · Ppg ir · Ppg red Heart rate estimation, SpO₂ estimation, Cuffless blood pressure estimation
#50	Emognition	0	1	1	—	—	—	Not stated	PPG · EDA · Accel · Skin temp · EEG · Gyro Emotion recognition
#50	MCD-rPPG	0	1	1	—	—	—	CC BY 4.0	Video · PPG · ECG
#50	RLAP	0	1	1	0	1	0	Not stated	Video · PPG
#50	ScientISST MOVE: Annotated Wearable Multimodal Biosignals recorded during Everyday Life Activities in Naturalistic Environments	0	1	1	0	0	1	Not stated	PPG · ECG · Accel · EDA Human activity recognition
#50	VIPL-HR	0	1	1	—	—	—	EULA — research only; universities/institutes; commercial prohibited (VIPL release agreement)	Video · PPG

PPG-DaLiA

47 total · 28 papers · 19 models

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 22

PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · Resp

Licence: Scientific, non-commercial use with credit to the owners

WESAD

44 total · 28 papers · 16 models

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 21

PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · Resp

Licence: Scientific, non-commercial use with credit to the owners

VitalDB

42 total · 30 papers · 12 models

Pretrain 5 · Train 2 · Eval 7

PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP · CO₂

Licence: CC BY 4.0 (PhysioNet release)

MESA Sleep

28 total · 21 papers · 7 models

Pretrain 5 · Train 0 · Eval 5

PSG · PPG · ECG · EEG · Resp · Accel

Licence: NSRR Data Access and Use Agreement

PulseDB v2.0

28 total · 20 papers · 8 models

Pretrain 2 · Train 0 · Eval 4

PPG · ECG · ABP

Licence: Split by folder: PulseDB_MIMIC files under ODbL 1.0 (contents under DbCL 1.0); PulseDB_Vital files and the subset/Info files under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

BIDMC PPG and Respiration (Pimentel 2016 / PhysioNet)

16 total · 10 papers · 6 models

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂

Licence: ODC-By 1.0

Stanford wrist PPG AF (DeepBeat)

16 total · 9 papers · 7 models

PPG

Licence: Non-commercial data use agreement (data); GPL-3.0 (code)

Brno University of Technology Smartphone PPG Database (BUT PPG)

14 total · 9 papers · 5 models

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 4

PPG · ECG

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Cleveland Family Study (CFS)

9 total · 5 papers · 4 models

Pretrain 3 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PSG · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#10

UCI Cuff-Less Blood Pressure Estimation (UCI 340; Kachuee 2015)

8 total · 6 papers · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 6

PPG · ABP · ECG

Licence: Not stated

#11

PPG-BP Database (Guilin / Liang 2018)

7 total · 4 papers · 3 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG

Licence: CC0 1.0

#11

PURE

7 total · 2 papers · 5 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 2 · Eval 2

Video · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#13

DREAMT

6 total · 5 papers · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · PSG

Licence: PhysioNet Restricted Health Data License 1.5.0

#13

Long-term ECG and wrist PPG with annotated AF episodes (AFPPGECG)

6 total · 4 papers · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG · ECG · Accel

Licence: Zenodo lists the licence as Other (Non-Commercial)

#13

MIMIC-III Waveform MATCHED

6 total · 3 papers · 3 models

PPG · ABP

Licence: ODbL 1.0

#13

VitalVideos

6 total · 3 papers · 3 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 4

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#13

WildPPG

6 total · 3 papers · 3 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · BARO

Licence: Data: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Code: GPL-3.0

#18

MOODS

5 total · 2 papers · 3 models

PPG · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#18

Samsung AFib/PVC study

5 total · 2 papers · 3 models

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#18

SDB

5 total · 2 papers · 3 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PPG · SpO₂

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#21

MIMIC-BP

4 total · 4 papers · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ABP · ECG · Resp

Licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0.

#21

MIMIC-III-Ext-PPG

4 total · 3 papers · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP

Licence: PhysioNet Credentialed Health Data License 1.5.0

#21

Gyro-Acc-PPG (BAMI-I, Wonkwang)

4 total · 2 papers · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 3

PPG · Accel · Gyro · ECG

Licence: Not stated

#21

IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 (TROIKA)

4 total · 2 papers · 2 models

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PPG · Accel · ECG

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#21

MIMIC PERform

4 total · 2 papers · 2 models

PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP

Licence: ODbL

#21

UCSF ICU bedside-monitor waveforms (private; GPT-PPG / SiamQuality / SQUWA pretraining)

4 total · 2 papers · 2 models

PPG · ECG · Resp

Licence: Not stated

#21

Samsung BP free-living study

4 total · 1 paper · 3 models

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#21

Samsung BP lab study

4 total · 1 paper · 3 models

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#21

Samsung Galaxy Watch PPG pretraining corpus (~32K users, ~17M 10-s segments; private)

4 total · 1 paper · 3 models

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#21

MMPD

4 total · 0 papers · 4 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 1 · Eval 2

Video · PPG

Licence: Academic use only; commercial banned (Data Usage Protocol / release agreement)

#31

ECSMP

3 total · 3 papers · 0 models

PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · EEG

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#31

BIG IDEAs Lab Glycemic Variability and Wearable Device Data

3 total · 2 papers · 1 model

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 0

PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA · CGM

Licence: Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0

#31

OpenWatch

3 total · 2 papers · 1 model

Accel · Gyro · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#31

COHFACE

3 total · 1 paper · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 1 · Eval 1

Video · PPG · Resp

Licence: COHFACE EULA

#31

EarSet

3 total · 1 paper · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ECG · Accel · Gyro · Resp

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#31

Pulse Transit Time PPG

3 total · 1 paper · 2 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ECG · Accel · Gyro

Licence: ODbL 1.0

#37

Autism Inpatient Collection (AIC)

2 total · 2 papers · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 1 · Eval 1

PPG · EDA · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#37

K-EmoCon

2 total · 2 papers · 0 models

PPG · Accel · EDA · Skin temp · ECG · EEG · HR

Licence: Restricted access (request on Zenodo); no license listed

#37

Pulsewatch

2 total · 2 papers · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 1 · Eval 2

PPG · ECG · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#37

Bed-Based BCG (Carlson, K-State)

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

BCG · ECG · PPG · Resp · Bp continuous

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#37

EEVR

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PPG · EDA

Licence: Not stated

#37

Human Sleep Project (BDSP)

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

Pretrain 2 · Train 0 · Eval 0

PSG · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#37

MIMIC-IV Waveform Database (PhysioNet preview)

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ECG · Resp · ABP

Licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0 (ODbL 1.0)

#37

nuMoM2b

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 2

PSG · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#37

PPGArrhythmia (Liu 2022)

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#37

STAGES

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

Pretrain 1 · Train 0 · Eval 0

PSG · EEG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂ · PPG · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#37

UQVitalSigns

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

PPG · ECG · Resp · SpO₂ · CO₂ · BP

Licence: CC BY-NC 3.0

#37

UTSA-PPG

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

PPG · ECG · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#37

WenXinWuYang

2 total · 1 paper · 1 model

PPG · ECG

Licence: Not stated

#50

CapnoBase IEEE TBME RR benchmark (Karlen 2013)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ECG · Resp

Licence: Custom terms specific to this dataset

#50

CRHE

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG

Licence: Not stated

#50

EmpaticaE4Stress (workplace cognitive stress)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · Accel · Skin temp · EDA

Licence: Not stated

#50

GalaxyPPG

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ECG · Accel · Skin temp

Licence: Not stated

#50

Long-term ECG + wrist PPG with annotated AF episodes (Bacevičius 2024, Zenodo)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ECG · Accel

Licence: Other (Non-Commercial)

#50

MW-PPG-HR

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ECG · Accel

Licence: Not stated

#50

OpenOximetry Repository (PhysioNet Restricted)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ECG · SpO₂ · ABP · Etco2

Licence: Not stated

#50

OSASUD

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ECG · SpO₂ · HR · Resp · PSG

Licence: Not stated

#50

PPG-Signal-Dataset (USC Cali)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#50

Real-World PPG Dataset (Siam et al. / Mendeley)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG

Licence: CERN OHL version 1.2

#50

Sensors Aguirre 2021

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

PPG · ABP

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#50

TILES-2018

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · IMU · ECG

Licence: Not stated

#50

UBFC-Phys

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

EDA · Ppg bvp · Video face

Licence: Not stated

#50

μDPad

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · Accel · Gyro

Licence: Not stated

#50

τ-Ring dataset (thuhci/RingTool)

1 total · 1 paper · 0 models

Accel · Ppg ir · Ppg red

Licence: Not stated

#50

Emognition

1 total · 0 papers · 1 model

PPG · EDA · Accel · Skin temp · EEG · Gyro

Licence: Not stated

#50

MCD-rPPG

1 total · 0 papers · 1 model

Video · PPG · ECG

Licence: CC BY 4.0

#50

RLAP

1 total · 0 papers · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 1 · Eval 0

Video · PPG

Licence: Not stated

#50

ScientISST MOVE: Annotated Wearable Multimodal Biosignals recorded during Everyday Life Activities in Naturalistic Environments

1 total · 0 papers · 1 model

Pretrain 0 · Train 0 · Eval 1

PPG · ECG · Accel · EDA

Licence: Not stated

#50

VIPL-HR

1 total · 0 papers · 1 model

Video · PPG

Licence: EULA — research only; universities/institutes; commercial prohibited (VIPL release agreement)

How the ranking works

Counts are links between published ChatPPG pages: a paper or model page that names the dataset it used, and that dataset's page. Unpublished papers and models are excluded, and nothing is inferred from titles or abstracts.

This page keeps only datasets whose ChatPPG record lists PPG among its recorded signals, and ranks them against each other. The rank column is the rank within PPG datasets; the overall ranking covers every dataset.

Datasets are ranked by total links (papers plus models); ties share a rank. Pretrain, train and eval columns count only links whose source states that role, so they can add up to less than the total; a dash means no link to that dataset states a role. The table refreshes with every research hub sync.

Licence, signals and tasks come from each dataset's ChatPPG record. Check the dataset page and its source before you use the data.

FAQ

What is the most used PPG dataset?

PPG-DaLiA, with 47 links from published ChatPPG pages (28 papers and 19 models). Next are WESAD (44), VitalDB (42) and MESA Sleep (28).

How many PPG datasets are ranked here?

69 datasets list PPG among their recorded signals and have at least one published paper or model linking to them. Together they have 255 paper links and 160 model links.

Which PPG datasets do the most models use?

PPG-DaLiA (19 models), WESAD (16 models) and VitalDB (12 models). Model counts include foundation models and task models with a published ChatPPG page.

Which PPG datasets are used most for pretraining?

Where the source states a role, the most common pretraining datasets are VitalDB (5), MESA Sleep (5) and Cleveland Family Study (CFS) (3).

Which PPG datasets are used most for evaluation?

Where the source states a role, the most common evaluation datasets are PPG-DaLiA (22), WESAD (21) and VitalDB (7).

How are these counts calculated?

Each count is a link between two published ChatPPG pages: a paper or model page that lists the dataset it used, and the dataset's own page. 255 links come from papers and 160 from models. Unpublished papers and models are not counted, and no link is inferred. A dataset is included when its ChatPPG record lists PPG as a recorded signal.

Other rankings: all datasets, ECG datasets, IMU datasets, EDA datasets, rPPG datasets. Browse all datasets, or open the papers that use PPG-DaLiA. Benchmarks by dataset: leaderboards.

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APA

ChatPPG. (2026). Most-used PPG datasets (ChatPPG) [Data set]. ChatPPG Research Hub. https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/most-used/ppg

BibTeX

@misc{chatppg_most_used_ppg_datasets,
  author       = {{ChatPPG}},
  title        = {{Most-used PPG datasets (ChatPPG)}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  howpublished = {\url{https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/most-used/ppg}},
  note         = {ChatPPG Research Hub}
}

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