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The development of contactless SpO2 monitoring utilizing RGB cameras has already proven successful. This study utilizes the Eulerian Video Magnification (EVM) technique to enhance minor variations in skin pixel intensity in particular facial regions. More specifically, the emphasis in this study is in the utilization of infrared cameras, in order to explore the possibility of contactless SpO2 monitoring under low-light or night-time conditions. Many different methods were employed for regression. A study of machine learning regression methods was performed, including a Generalized Additive Model (GAM) and an Extra Trees Regressor, based on 12 novel features extracted from the extracted amplified photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. Deep learning methods were also explored, including a 3D Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and a Video Vision Transformer (ViViT) architecture on the amplified forehead\/cheeks video. 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