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EfficientPhys is a lightweight camera-based vitals model designed for on-device inference (WACV 2023; arXiv:2110.04447). Open code is available through the UW rPPG-Toolbox.
- Form factor
- camera_rppg
- Openness
- Open
- Code
- github.com/ubicomplab/rPPG-Toolbox
- Year
- 2021
- Published
- WACV 2023
arXiv: 2110.04447
- Type
- Task model
- Modalities
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- Form factor
- Camera rPPG
- Parameters
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- Architecture
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- Venue
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- Year
- 2021
- DOI
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- Code
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- Weights
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- Licence
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- Added
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- Updated
- Oct 24, 2026
Abstract
Camera-based physiological measurement is a growing field with neural models providing state-the-art-performance. Prior research have explored various "end-to-end" models; however these methods still require several preprocessing steps. These additional operations are often non-trivial to implement making replication and deployment difficult and can even have a higher computational budget than the "core" network itself. In this paper, we propose two novel and efficient neural models for camera-based physiological measurement called EfficientPhys that remove the need for face detection, segmentation, normalization, color space transformation or any other preprocessing steps. Using an input of raw video frames, our models achieve strong performance on three public datasets. We show that this is the case whether using a transformer or convolutional backbone. We further evaluate the latency of the proposed networks and show that our most light weight network also achieves a 33% improvement in efficiency.
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- Approach
- rppg · model · efficientphys
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APA
EfficientPhys. (2021). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04447
BibTeX
@misc{efficientphys2021efficientphys,
title = {{EfficientPhys}},
year = {2021},
eprint = {2110.04447},
archivePrefix = {arXiv}
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Software: rPPG-Toolbox is listed in Wearable Signal Tools, with its licence, commercial use and last commit.
- MSTransShared topic: modelmulti-scale spatio-temporal transformer for rPPGRGB2027
- FLOWShared topic: modelfeature-level optimal warping for domain-generalized rPPG2026
- MS-rPPGShared topic: modelmulti-spectral (RGB + NIR) state space model for in-vehicle rPPG2026
- PALC-NetShared topic: modelphysiology-aware lightweight contrastive network for unsupervised rPPGRGB2026
