Pulse-PPG: An Open-Source Field-Trained PPG Foundation Model for Wearable Applications Across Lab and Field Settings

ACM IMWUT 9· 2025
PPGFoundation ModelDOI

Summary

University of Memphis and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign model, trained on uncurated wrist PPG from the MOODS field study. The released field model is not a clinical-plus-field mixture: clinical pretraining is a separate comparison arm in the paper.[1][2]

Reported benchmarks

Heart rate estimation

PPG-DaLiA · MAE (bpm) ↓

#3 of 6
8.936

Frozen linear-probe; paper protocol

Mental workload / stress

WESAD · AUROC ↑

#2 of 5
0.9687

Binary stress; paper non-stress definition

Updated: Sep 27, 2026