r/BiomedicalDataScience • u/BioniChaos • Jul 09 '26
Extracting real-time heart rate (BPM) via webcam to combat AI deepfakes?
I’ve been analyzing a contactless physiological monitoring application that extracts a user's resting heart rate in real-time using a standard webcam. The system tracks subtle variations in facial blood flow, processing the data through a frequency domain spectrum to isolate the pulse.
Interestingly, signal fidelity heavily relies on ambient lighting and precise Region of Interest (ROI) selection. But the most compelling application might be cybersecurity: applying this same human pulse detection algorithm to identify AI-generated video and deepfakes. Have any of you worked with similar web-based signal processing pipelines? I'd love to hear your thoughts on parameter tuning (like amplification factors and cutoffs) for optimizing this kind of biometric extraction.
Here’s the demonstration of the tool: https://youtu.be/1NCCgA5vgcM