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This paper considers human activity classification for an indoor radar system. Human motions generate nonstationary radar returns which represent Doppler and micro-Doppler signals. The time-frequency (TF) analysis of micro-Doppler signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Patrick A. Schooley , Syed A. Hamza

Radar for deep learning-based human identification has become a research area of increasing interest. It has been shown that micro-Doppler ($\mu$-D) can reflect the walking behavior through capturing the periodic limbs' micro-motions. One…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Pascal Weller , Fady Aziz , Sherif Abdulatif , Urs Schneider , Marco F. Huber

Healthcare monitoring is crucial, especially for the daily care of elderly individuals living alone. It can detect dangerous occurrences, such as falls, and provide timely alerts to save lives. Non-invasive millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhanzhong Gu , Xiangjian He , Gengfa Fang , Chengpei Xu , Feng Xia , Wenjing Jia

Timely and reliable detection of falls is a large and rapidly growing field of research due to the medical and financial demand of caring for a constantly growing elderly population. Within the past 2 decades, the availability of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Harry Wixley

Non-contact vital sign monitoring has many advantages over conventional methods in being comfortable, unobtrusive and without any risk of spreading infection. The use of millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars is one of the most promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Steven Marty , Federico Pantanella , Andrea Ronco , Kanika Dheman , Michele Magno

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

Obtaining data on high-impact falls from older adults is ethically difficult, yet these rare events cause many fall-related health problems. As a result, most radar-based fall detectors are trained on staged falls from young volunteers, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sebastian Ratto , Huy Trinh , Ahmed N. Sayed , Abdelrahman Elbadrawy , Arien Sligar , George Shaker

In this work, we investigate the use of backscattered mm-wave radio signals for the joint tracking and recognition of identities of humans as they move within indoor environments. We build a system that effectively works with multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Jacopo Pegoraro , Francesca Meneghello , Michele Rossi

As the population ages rapidly, long-term care (LTC) facilities across North America face growing pressure to monitor residents safely while keeping staff workload manageable. Falls are among the most critical events to monitor due to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Huy Trinh , Phuong Thai , Elliot Creager , George Shaker

Objective: In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of radar for gait classification with application to home security, medical diagnosis, rehabilitation and assisted living. Aiming at identifying changes in gait patterns based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Ann-Kathrin Seifert , Moeness G. Amin , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Falls present a significant global public health challenge, especially in today's aging society, underscoring the importance of developing an effective fall detection system. Non-invasive radio-frequency (RF) based fall detection has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Sijie Ji , Yaxiong Xie , Mo Li

The increasing shortage of nursing staff and the acute risk of falls in nursing homes pose significant challenges for the healthcare system. This study presents the development of an automated fall detection system integrated into care…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars have found applications in a wide range of domains, including human tracking, health monitoring, and autonomous driving, for their unobtrusive nature and high range accuracy. These capabilities, however, if…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Yanlong Qiu , Jiaxi Zhang , Yanjiao Chen , Jin Zhang , Bo Ji

Positional estimation is of great importance in the public safety sector. Emergency responders such as fire fighters, medical rescue teams, and the police will all benefit from a resilient positioning system to deliver safe and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhuangzhuang Dai , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a promising sensing modality for human perception due to its robustness under challenging environmental conditions and strong privacy-preserving properties. However, recovering accurate 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hoang Hai Pham , Shuntian Zheng , Jiaqi Li , Yu Guan

Falls in wet bathroom environments are a major safety risk for seniors living alone. Recent work has shown that mmWave-only, vibration-only, and existing multimodal schemes, such as vibration-triggered radar activation, early feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Sheldon Fung , Atif Mansoor

By 2050, people aged 65 and over are projected to make up 16 percent of the global population. As aging is closely associated with increased fall risk, particularly in wet and confined environments such as bathrooms where over 80 percent of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Haitian Wang , Yiren Wang , Xinyu Wang , Yumeng Miao , Yuliang Zhang , Yu Zhang , Atif Mansoor

Vital sign monitoring plays a critical role in tracking the physiological state of people and enabling various health-related applications (e.g., recommending a change of lifestyle, examining the risk of diseases). Traditional approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Zhaoyi Xu , Cong Shi , Tianfang Zhang , Shuping Li , Yichao Yuan , Chung-Tse Michael Wu , Yingying Chen , Athina Petropulu

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Human activity recognition is seen of great importance in the medical and surveillance fields. Radar has shown great feasibility for this field based on the captured micro-Doppler ({\mu}-D) signatures. In this paper, a MIMO radar is used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Fady Aziz , Omar Metwally , Pascal Weller , Urs Schneider , Marco F. Huber