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Breathing rate is a vital health metric that is an invaluable indicator of the overall health of a person. In recent years, the non-contact measurement of health signals such as breathing rate has been a huge area of development, with a…

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A malicious attacker could, by taking control of internet-of-things devices, use them to capture received signal strength (RSS) measurements and perform surveillance on a person's vital signs, activities, audio in their environment, and…

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This study proposes a data fusion method for multiradar systems to enable measurement of the respiration of multiple people located at arbitrary positions. Using the proposed method, the individual respiration rates of multiple people can…

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Monitoring the respiratory rate is crucial for helping us identify respiratory disorders. Devices for conventional respiratory monitoring are inconvenient and scarcely available. Recent research has demonstrated the ability of non-contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Haimiao Mo , Shuai Ding , Shanlin Yang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Xi Zheng

Human gesture recognition using millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals provides attractive applications including smart home and in-car interfaces. While existing works achieve promising performance under controlled settings, practical…

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The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the potential for enormous capacity wireless links. However, designing robust communication systems at these frequencies requires that we understand the channel dynamics over both time and…

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Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods…

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Continuous detection of human activities and presence is essential for developing a pervasive interactive smart space. Existing literature lacks robust wireless sensing mechanisms capable of continuously monitoring multiple users'…

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We present a variational message passing (VMP) approach to detect the presence of a person based on their respiratory chest motion using multistatic ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. In the process, the respiratory motion is estimated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Franz Pernkopf , Klaus Witrisal

In this paper, we present two video processing techniques for contact-less estimation of the Respiratory Rate (RR) of framed subjects. Due to the modest extent of movements related to respiration in both infants and adults, specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Veronica Mattioli , Davide Alinovi , Gianluigi Ferrari , Francesco Pisani , Riccardo Raheli

In the last few decades, several wearable devices have been designed to monitor respiration rate in an effort to capture pulmonary signals with higher accuracy and reduce patients' discomfort during use. In this article, we present the…

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In this work we present RAPID, the first joint communication and radar system based on next-generation IEEE 802.11ay WiFi networks operating in the 60 GHz band. Unlike existing approaches for human sensing at millimeter-wave frequencies,…

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Breathing disorders such as sleep apnea is a critical disorder that affects a large number of individuals due to the insufficient capacity of the lungs to contain/exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide to ensure that the body is in the stable…

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This paper presents a comprehensive dataset intended to evaluate passive Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and localization techniques with measurements obtained from synchronized Radio-Frequency (RF) devices and vision-based sensors. The…

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the non-contact based detection of the respiration rate from video sequences. Common techniques either directly assess the movement of the chest due to breathing or are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Fabian Schrumpf , Christoph Moench , Gerold Bausch , Mirco Fuchs

Contact-free detection of human vital signs like heart rate and respiration rate will improve the patients' comfort and enables long-term monitoring of newborns or bedridden patients. For that, reliable and safe measurement techniques are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Roman Kusche , Fabian John , Marco Cimdins , Horst Hellbrueck

WiFi sensing is an important part of the new WiFi 802.11bf standard, which can detect motion and measure distances. In recent years, some machine learning methods have been proposed for human activity recognition from WiFi signals. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hojjat Salehinejad , Navid Hasanzadeh , Radomir Djogo , Shahrokh Valaee

Crucial for healthcare and biomedical applications, respiration monitoring often employs wearable sensors in practice, causing inconvenience due to their direct contact with human bodies. Therefore, researchers have been constantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Tianyue Zheng , Zhe Chen , Shujie Zhang , Chao Cai , Jun Luo

Reliable humanoid-robot interaction (HRI) in household environments is constrained by two fundamental requirements, namely robustness to unconstrained user positions and preservation of user privacy. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) sensing…

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