PHASE-Net: Physics-Grounded Harmonic Attention System for Efficient Remote Photoplethysmography Measurement

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Main Authors: Zhao, Bo, Guo, Dan, Cao, Junzhe, Xu, Yong, Zou, Bochao, Tan, Tao, Sun, Yue, Yu, Zitong
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author Zhao, Bo
Guo, Dan
Cao, Junzhe
Xu, Yong
Zou, Bochao
Tan, Tao
Sun, Yue
Yu, Zitong
author_facet Zhao, Bo
Guo, Dan
Cao, Junzhe
Xu, Yong
Zou, Bochao
Tan, Tao
Sun, Yue
Yu, Zitong
contents Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack theoretical grounding, limiting robustness and interpretability. In this work, we propose a physics-informed rPPG paradigm derived from the Navier-Stokes equations of hemodynamics, showing that the pulse signal follows a second-order dynamical system whose discrete solution naturally leads to a causal convolution, justifying the use of a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN). Based on this principle, we design the PHASE-Net, a lightweight model with three key components: 1) Zero-FLOPs Axial Swapper module to swap or transpose a few spatial channels to mix distant facial regions, boosting cross-region feature interaction without changing temporal order; 2) Adaptive Spatial Filter to learn a soft spatial mask per frame to highlight signal-rich areas and suppress noise for cleaner feature maps; and 3) Gated TCN, a causal dilated TCN with gating that models long-range temporal dynamics for accurate pulse recovery. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PHASE-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance and strong efficiency, offering a theoretically grounded and deployment-ready rPPG solution. The source code is available at https://github.com/Alex036225/PhaseNet.
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spellingShingle PHASE-Net: Physics-Grounded Harmonic Attention System for Efficient Remote Photoplethysmography Measurement
Zhao, Bo
Guo, Dan
Cao, Junzhe
Xu, Yong
Zou, Bochao
Tan, Tao
Sun, Yue
Yu, Zitong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack theoretical grounding, limiting robustness and interpretability. In this work, we propose a physics-informed rPPG paradigm derived from the Navier-Stokes equations of hemodynamics, showing that the pulse signal follows a second-order dynamical system whose discrete solution naturally leads to a causal convolution, justifying the use of a Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN). Based on this principle, we design the PHASE-Net, a lightweight model with three key components: 1) Zero-FLOPs Axial Swapper module to swap or transpose a few spatial channels to mix distant facial regions, boosting cross-region feature interaction without changing temporal order; 2) Adaptive Spatial Filter to learn a soft spatial mask per frame to highlight signal-rich areas and suppress noise for cleaner feature maps; and 3) Gated TCN, a causal dilated TCN with gating that models long-range temporal dynamics for accurate pulse recovery. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PHASE-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance and strong efficiency, offering a theoretically grounded and deployment-ready rPPG solution. The source code is available at https://github.com/Alex036225/PhaseNet.
title PHASE-Net: Physics-Grounded Harmonic Attention System for Efficient Remote Photoplethysmography Measurement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24850