Pulse-PPG: An Open-Source Field-Trained PPG Foundation Model for Wearable Applications Across Lab and Field Settings
ACM IMWUT 9· 2025
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