26-30 July 2026

EMBC 2026

Toronto, Canada
We.1.1: Contactless and Wearable Systems Analysis
Wednesday, 29 July, 08:30 - 10:00
Location: Room 716A
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Vincent Leung and Tiancheng Cao
Theme 1: Biomedical Signal Processing
Wed, 29 Jul, 08:30 - 08:45

We.1.1.1: ROBUST, UNOBSTRUSIVE HEART RATE MONITORING FROM BALLISTOCARDIOGRAM SIGNALS USING AN AUTOCORRELATION-BASED PIPELINE WITH TEMPORAL CONSISTENCY VALIDATION
Ajdar Ullah, Ismail Elnagger, Olli Lahdenoja, University of Turku; Jakob Botvidsson, Politecnico di Milano; Usman Azmat, Dipak Nidhi, Sepehr Seifizarei, Arman Anzanpour, University of Turku; Valentina Corino, Politecnico di Milano; Tero Koivisto, Pasi Liljeberg, University of Turku
Wed, 29 Jul, 08:45 - 09:00

We.1.1.2: Quality-Guided Dynamic Fusion for Multi-Region In-Vehicle Near-Infrared rPPG Heart Rate Estimation
Xilong Yang, Xuenan Liu, Jianmin Zhang, Xinglian Zhang, Songyang Liu, Hefei University of Technology; Hanyu Yang, Anhui University
Wed, 29 Jul, 09:00 - 09:15

We.1.1.3: Regression Models for Non-Contact Blood Oxygen Saturation Estimation from Facial rPPG Signals using hypoxic data
Sarah Amouri, École de technologie supérieure; David Rivest-Hénault, Thomas Vaughan, Michael Smith, Bruno Falardeau, Linda Pecora, Marc-André Rainville, Di Jiang, National Research Council of Canada; Luc Duong, École de technologie supérieure
Wed, 29 Jul, 09:15 - 09:30

We.1.1.4: Jugular Venous Height Estimation Through Non-contact Imaging
Mohamad Hosein Davoodabadi Farahani, Miodrag Bolic, Tianyu Zhang, University of Ottawa; Roland Sabbagh, Kasem Salvatore Muça, Terri Zadorsky, Orleans Cardiopulmonary
Wed, 29 Jul, 09:30 - 09:45

We.1.1.5: Extraction of Circadian-Related Heart Rate from Long-Term Wearable Data Using State-Space Modeling
Tomoya Tamei, The University of Osaka; Nobue Arimoto, Yamato University; Chieko Tan, Kobe University; Atsue Ishii, The University of Osaka; Hideyuki Shiotani, Kobe Tokiwa University
Wed, 29 Jul, 09:45 - 10:00

We.1.1.6: Physically-Constrained Harmonic Separation for Robust Heart and Respiratory Rate Estimation from Wrist Photoplethysmography
Nouhaila Fraihi, International University of Rabat,; Ouassim Karrakchou, International University of Rabat; Mounir Ghogho, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University