Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification

Abstract In this study, we evaluated and analyzed the effects of image compression on a neural network (NN)-based heart rate (HR) classification system. An NN-based HR-estimation system classifies facial images into groups of HR intervals. We evaluated the relationship between the image compression...

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Main Authors: Tianyu Dong, Seongho Cook, Jaiyoung Oh, Euee S. Jang
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06031-8
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description Abstract In this study, we evaluated and analyzed the effects of image compression on a neural network (NN)-based heart rate (HR) classification system. An NN-based HR-estimation system classifies facial images into groups of HR intervals. We evaluated the relationship between the image compression rates and accuracy of an NN-based HR estimation system. In our evaluation, the image of the face was compressed into lossless (PNG) and lossy (JPEG) formats to reduce the transmission bandwidth. The compressed images significantly reduce the required bandwidth and storage size. Furthermore, we analyzed the image classification accuracy of the DenseNet-121, VGG-16, and Inception V3 models. VGG-16 exhibited the highest performance, and the proposed system yielded an accuracy of 97.2% for correctly detecting the HR. Additionally, the results showed that lossy image compression quality slightly affected HR accuracy. This evaluation method can provide an effective solution under low computational complexity and low bitrate requirement for remote HR classification.
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spelling doaj-art-1cbbe804c705438e920dc8bc62a893fe2025-08-20T03:45:24ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111110.1038/s41598-025-06031-8Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classificationTianyu Dong0Seongho Cook1Jaiyoung Oh2Euee S. Jang3Department of Computer Science, Hanyang UniversityTheragen BioDepartment of Computer Science, Hanyang UniversityDepartment of Computer Science, Hanyang UniversityAbstract In this study, we evaluated and analyzed the effects of image compression on a neural network (NN)-based heart rate (HR) classification system. An NN-based HR-estimation system classifies facial images into groups of HR intervals. We evaluated the relationship between the image compression rates and accuracy of an NN-based HR estimation system. In our evaluation, the image of the face was compressed into lossless (PNG) and lossy (JPEG) formats to reduce the transmission bandwidth. The compressed images significantly reduce the required bandwidth and storage size. Furthermore, we analyzed the image classification accuracy of the DenseNet-121, VGG-16, and Inception V3 models. VGG-16 exhibited the highest performance, and the proposed system yielded an accuracy of 97.2% for correctly detecting the HR. Additionally, the results showed that lossy image compression quality slightly affected HR accuracy. This evaluation method can provide an effective solution under low computational complexity and low bitrate requirement for remote HR classification.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06031-8Heart rateImage compressionNeural networkClassification
spellingShingle Tianyu Dong
Seongho Cook
Jaiyoung Oh
Euee S. Jang
Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
Scientific Reports
Heart rate
Image compression
Neural network
Classification
title Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
title_full Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
title_fullStr Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
title_short Evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network-based heart rate classification
title_sort evaluation and analysis of image compression effect on neural network based heart rate classification
topic Heart rate
Image compression
Neural network
Classification
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06031-8
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