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Two challenges for rescue robots are to detect human beings and to have an accurate positioning system. In indoor positioning, GPS receivers cannot be used due to the reflections or attenuation caused by obstacles. To detect human beings,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 David Espès , Ana Maria Pistea , Charles Canaff , Ioana Iordache , Philippe Le Parc , Emanuel Radoi

Recent research on problem formulations based on decomposition into low-rank plus sparse matrices shows a suitable framework to separate moving objects from the background. The most representative problem formulation is the Robust Principal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Thierry Bouwmans , Andrews Sobral , Sajid Javed , Soon Ki Jung , El-Hadi Zahzah

We analyze synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of complex ground scenes that contain both stationary and moving targets. In the usual SAR acquisition scheme, we consider ways to preprocess the data so as to separate the contributions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Matan Leibovich , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Millimeter-wave radar offers a privacy-preserving and lighting-invariant alternative to RGB sensors for Human Pose Estimation (HPE) task. However, the radar signals are often sparse due to specular reflection, making the extraction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Niraj Prakash Kini , Shiau-Rung Tsai , Guan-Hsun Lin , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Ching-Wen Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Motion detection has been widely used in many applications, such as surveillance and robotics. Due to the presence of the static background, a motion video can be decomposed into a low-rank background and a sparse foreground. Many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jing Qin , Biyun Xie

PCA is one of the most widely used dimension reduction techniques. A related easier problem is "subspace learning" or "subspace estimation". Given relatively clean data, both are easily solved via singular value decomposition (SVD). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Namrata Vaswani , Thierry Bouwmans , Sajid Javed , Praneeth Narayanamurthy

The majority of human detection methods rely on the sensor using visible lights (e.g., RGB cameras) but such sensors are limited in scenarios with degraded vision conditions. In this paper, we present a multimodal human detection system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Kaiwen Cai , Qiyue Xia , Peize Li , John Stankovic , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

A complete overview of the surrounding vehicle environment is important for driver assistance systems and highly autonomous driving. Fusing results of multiple sensor types like camera, radar and lidar is crucial for increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Markus Horn , Ole Schumann , Markus Hahn , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer

Quasi-static human activities such as lying, standing or sitting produce very low Doppler shifts and highly spread radar signatures, making them difficult to detect with conventional constant-false-alarm rate (CFAR) detectors tuned for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Huy Trinh , George Shaker

Passive radio frequency (RF) sensing and monitoring of human daily activities in elderly care homes is an emerging topic. Micro-Doppler radars are an appealing solution considering their non-intrusiveness, deep penetration, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yordanka Karayaneva , Sara Sharifzadeh , Wenda Li , Yanguo Jing , Bo Tan

This letter presents a novel radar based, single-frame, multi-class detection method for moving road users (pedestrian, cyclist, car), which utilizes low-level radar cube data. The method provides class information both on the radar target-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Andras Palffy , Jiaao Dong , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

WiFi and security pose both an issue and act as a growing presence in everyday life. Today's motions detection implementations are severely lacking in the areas of secrecy, scope, and cost. To combat this problem, we aim to develop a motion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Sadhana Lolla , Amy Zhao

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a critical tool in modern machine learning, which detects outliers in the task of low-rank matrix reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a scalable and learnable non-convex approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 HanQin Cai , Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin

Existing Human Motion Prediction (HMP) methods based on RGB-D cameras are sensitive to lighting conditions and raise privacy concerns, limiting their real-world applications such as firefighting and healthcare. Motivated by the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Junqiao Fan , Haocong Rao , Jiarui Zhang , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Radar sensors operating in the mmWave frequency range face challenges when used as indoor perception and imaging devices, primarily due to noise and multipath signal distortions. These distortions often impair the sensors' ability to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Stefan Hägele , Fabian Seguel , Driton Salihu , Marsil Zakour , Eckehard Steinbach

Radar sensors can be used for analyzing the induced frequency shifts due to micro-motions in both range and velocity dimensions identified as micro-Doppler ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$-D) and micro-Range ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$-R), respectively.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Sherif Abdulatif , Qian Wei , Fady Aziz , Bernhard Kleiner , Urs Schneider

Urban Physical Disorder (UPD), such as old or abandoned buildings, broken sidewalks, litter, and graffiti, has a negative impact on residents' quality of life. They can also increase crime rates, cause social disorder, and pose a public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Chuanbo Hu , Shan Jia , Fan Zhang , Changjiang Xiao , Mindi Ruan , Jacob Thrasher , Xin Li

We perform classification of activities of daily living (ADL) using a Frequency-Modulated Continuous Waveform (FMCW) radar. In particular, we consider contiguous motions that are inseparable in time. Both the micro-Doppler signature and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-18 Moeness G. Amin , Ronny G. Guendel

Recent advancements in Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radar technology have enabled contactless, non-line-of-sight vital sign monitoring, making it a valuable tool for healthcare. However, UWB radar's ability to capture sensitive physiological data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Md Farhan Tasnim Oshim , Nigel Doering , Bashima Islam , Tsui-Wei Weng , Tauhidur Rahman

In this paper, a real-time signal processing frame-work based on a 60 GHz frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system to recognize gestures is proposed. In order to improve the robustness of the radar-based gesture recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Yuliang Sun , Tai Fei , Xibo Li , Alexander Warnecke , Ernst Warsitz , Nils Pohl