FCUS-rPPG: A Fast-Converging Unsupervised Framework for Remote Photoplethysmography via Gradient Oscillation Suppression
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact extraction of blood volume pulse (BVP) signals using consumer-grade cameras. Recent unsupervised rPPG methods learn BVP representations without requiring ground-truth physiological annotations, yet their optimization is often hindered by noisy and unstable gradients, resulting in slow convergence and limited cross-domain generalization. In this paper, we propose FCUS-rPPG, a fast-converging unsupervised rPPG framework with strong generalization capability. Motivated by the observation that BVP representations exhibit both multi-spectral covariation and low-dimensional manifold structure, we design a spectrally shared backbone that facilitates BVP feature disentanglement while improving optimization efficiency. To jointly enhance convergence stability and generalization performance, we further develop a unified optimization framework operating at the gradient, loss-landscape, and feature-representation levels. Specifically, a post-verification masking mechanism filters out misleading gradients according to the weak-amplitude physiological prior of BVP signals; a perturbation-based loss landscape smoothing strategy steers optimization toward more generalizable flat minima; and a noise-aware null-space regularization constrains feature updates to the orthogonal complement of the noise subspace, thereby mitigating noise-induced representation drift. Extensive experiments on five datasets demonstrate that FCUS-rPPG requires only one training epoch, whereas existing methods typically require tens to hundreds of epochs. Notably, FCUS-rPPG consistently achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in cross-dataset evaluations. This study provides an efficient and robust solution to the real-world deployment of unsupervised rPPG. The source code will be publicly available at https://github.com/JiaJieLee/FCUS-rPPG.
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