Bilal Shihab / Projects

PulseCam

Measuring heart rate from an ordinary webcam with remote photoplethysmography, running locally so the video never leaves the machine.

Solo project2026
Spec
Method
Remote photoplethysmography
Baseline
Forehead ROI, green channel, FFT peak
Filter
Butterworth bandpass
Model
PhysNet 3D-CNN, 0.77M params
Training data
UBFC-rPPG
Runs on
Apple MPS, CUDA or CPU

Write-up coming soon.

Why I built it

Who it was for and what problem they had.

The hard part

One decision I had to make and what I gave up.

What I'd do next

Honest limits and the next measurement.