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    This study introduces a new unsupervised method using pulse signals to detect living subjects in videos for remote healthcare. This approach accurately identifies humans by analyzing physiological features, overcoming limitations of appearance-based methods.

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    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Computer Vision
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    • Camera-based remote healthcare monitoring requires accurate subject detection.
    • Existing methods often rely on physical appearance, leading to false detections and performance limitations.
    • A robust, unsupervised method is needed to overcome these challenges.

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    • Developed the Voxel-Pulse-Spectral (VPS) method, an unsupervised approach.
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  • Employed incremental sparse matrix decomposition with hierarchical fusion for subject identification.

    • Main Results:

    • VPS demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
    • Achieved significant improvements in skin-region detection precision (82.2%), Pearson correlation (595.5%), and Bland-Altman agreement (542.2%) for pulse rate.
    • ANOVA confirmed the statistical significance of VPS improvements in comprehensive evaluations.

    Conclusions:

    • The VPS method is the first to robustly detect living subjects using pulse signals in realistic scenarios.
    • This technique offers a promising advancement for camera-based remote healthcare monitoring.
    • The physiological feature-based approach significantly enhances detection accuracy and reliability.