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A 2019 study by Yifan Zhang and his coinvestigatorsused the noise components extracted from an infrared PPG signal to denoise a green PPG signal from which HR was extracted. Until now, this approach was only tested on \u201cmicro-motion\u201d such as finger tapping. In this study, we extend this technique to allow accurate calculation of HR under high-intensity full-body repetitive \u201cmacro-motion\u201d. Our Dual Wavelength (DWL) framework was tested on PPG data collected from 14 human participants while running on a treadmill. The DWL method showed the following attributes: (1) it performed well under high-intensity full-body repetitive \u201cmacro-motion\u201d, exhibiting high accuracy in the presence of motion artifacts (as compared to the leading accelerometer-dependent HR calculation techniques TROIKA and JOSS); (2) it used only PPG signals; auxiliary signals such as accelerometer signals were not needed; and (3) it was computationally efficient, hence implementable in wearable devices. DWL yielded a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 1.22|0.57 BPM, Mean Absolute Error Percentage (MAEP) of 0.95|0.38%, and performance index (PI) (which is the frequency, in percent, of obtaining an HR estimate that is within \u00b15 BPM of the HR ground truth) of 95.88|4.9%. 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