MS-rPPG: Multi-spectral State Space Model for Remote Photoplethysmography in Driver Monitoring Systems
This work addresses the problem of reliable heart rate monitoring for drivers in uncontrolled environments, which is important for driver health monitoring systems.
MS-rPPG introduces a multi-spectral framework combining RGB and NIR face videos with a cross-spectral linear modulation strategy and a state space model (MS-Mamba) to improve remote heart rate estimation in challenging driving conditions, achieving better robustness and accuracy than prior methods on two datasets.
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a camera-based technique for measuring physiological signals, particularly cardiac activity. From the remotely measured signals, heart rate can be estimated, which is crucial for health monitoring. In this study, we investigate a driver health monitoring system based on remote heart rate estimation. However, driving environments represent uncontrolled settings where videos are subject to varying illumination conditions and frequent head movements. We introduce MS-rPPG, a multi-spectral framework that combines RGB with near-infrared (NIR) face video to alleviate rPPG estimation under challenging driving conditions. To combine the complementary features from two spectral videos, we propose a cross-spectral linear modulation (CSLM) strategy based on frequency-domain analysis. Moreover, we introduce MS-Mamba, a novel state space model designed to effectively model long-range temporal dependencies while jointly capturing cross-channel interactions between multi-spectral features. We collected a real-world dataset called MS-Drive, which was recorded from 50 participants while driving the vehicle. The proposed method was evaluated on the MR-NIRP Car dataset and MS-Drive datasets. The experimental results indicate that MS-rPPG shows better robustness and heart rate estimation accuracy than previous methods, highlighting its promise for driver health monitoring. The codes are available at github.com/ziiho08/MS-rPPG.