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CanonicalPhys: Pose-Robust Remote Photoplethysmography via Canonical-Space Priors

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TL;DR - CanonicalPhys improves camera-based heart-rate estimation under head rotation by warping facial landmarks into a canonical coordinate space. This enables anatomy-dependent physiological priors and reduces pose-related errors without adding trainable parameters.

  • Uses a differentiable four-point homography to stabilize facial anatomy across poses.
  • Adds Lambertian pixel weighting, cross-region temporal consistency, and POS-based knowledge distillation.
  • Reduces frontal-to-large-yaw MAE degradation on MMPD from 1.60Ă— to 1.33Ă—.
  • Achieves cross-dataset MAE reductions of up to 32% on pose-rich targets.

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CanonicalPhys: Pose-Robust Remote Photoplethysmography via Canonical-Space Priors

arXiv cs.CV Hui Wei, Seyedata Jodeiri Seyedian, Xiaobai Li, Guoying Zhao 2026-07-17 arXiv:2607.15995
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TL;DR - CanonicalPhys improves camera-based heart-rate estimation under head rotation by warping facial landmarks into a canonical coordinate space. This enables anatomy-dependent physiological priors and reduces pose-related errors without adding trainable parameters.

  • Uses a differentiable four-point homography to stabilize facial anatomy across poses.
  • Adds Lambertian pixel weighting, cross-region temporal consistency, and POS-based knowledge distillation.
  • Reduces frontal-to-large-yaw MAE degradation on MMPD from 1.60Ă— to 1.33Ă—.
  • Achieves cross-dataset MAE reductions of up to 32% on pose-rich targets.
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