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Millimeter Wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a promising modality for speech sensing, offering advantages over traditional microphones. Prior works have demonstrated that radar captures motion signals related to vocal vibrations, but there…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Isabella Lenz , Yu Rong , Daniel Bliss , Julie Liss , Visar Berisha

This study explores a novel approach for analyzing Sit-to-Stand (STS) movements using millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar technology. The goal is to develop a non-contact sensing, privacy-preserving, and all-day operational method for healthcare…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Shuting Hu , Peggy Ackun , Xiang Zhang , Siyang Cao , Jennifer Barton , Melvin G. Hector , Mindy J. Fain , Nima Toosizadeh

This study proposes a method to determine the filter parameters required for the topology method, which is a radar-based noncontact method for measurement of heart inter-beat intervals. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Itsuki Iwata , Takuya Sakamoto , Takuya Matsumoto , Satoshi Hirata

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

Target classification is an important task of automotive radar systems. In this work, a concept for estimating the height of vehicles to allow for a differentiation between passenger cars, trucks, and others, is presented and discussed.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Soren Kohnert , Michael Vogt , Reinhard Stolle

mmWave radars struggle to detect or count individuals in dense, static (non-moving) groups due to limitations in spatial resolution and reliance on movement for detection. We present mmCounter, which accurately counts static people in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tarik Reza Toha , Shao-Jung , Lu , Shahriar Nirjon

Localisation with Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar has gained increasing interest due to its inherent resistance to challenging environments. However, complex artefacts of the radar measurement process require appropriate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Jianhao Yuan , Paul Newman , Matthew Gadd

In this paper, we first present a single-input, multiple-output convolutional neural network that can estimate both heart rate and respiration rate simultaneously by exploiting the underlying link between heart rate and respiration rate.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Moyu Liu , Zihuai Lin , Pei Xiao , Wei Xiang

Received signal strength based respiration rate monitoring is emerging as an alternative non-contact technology. These systems make use of the radio measurements of short-range commodity wireless devices, which vary due to the inhalation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Roland Hostettler , Riku Jäntti , Neal Patwari , Simo Särkkä

Millimeter-wave (mmw) radar is indispensable for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which can monitor traffic conditions in all weathers. An end-to-end simulation method for mmw radar monitoring and identification at traffic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Ming Zong , Zhanyu Zhu

Radio technology enabled contact-free human posture and vital sign estimation is promising for health monitoring. Radio systems at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies advantageously bring large bandwidth, multi-antenna array and beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Hadi Alidoustaghdam , Min Chen , Ben Willetts , Kai Mao , André Kokkeler , Yang Miao

Respiration rate (RR) is an important vital sign for clinical monitoring of hospitalized patients, with changes in RR being strongly tied to changes in clinical status leading to adverse events. Human labels for RR, based on counting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Thomas Kite , Brian Ayers , Nicholas Houstis , Asishana A. Osho , Thoralf M. Sundt , Aaron D Aguirre

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 contemporary society, the pressing challenge of preserving user privacy clashes with the imperative for smart buildings to efficiently manage their resources, particularly in the context of occupancy monitoring for optimized energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Valentín Barral , Tomás Domínguez-Bolaño , Carlos J. Escudero , José A. García-Naya

We report a novel non-contact method for dehydration monitoring. We utilize a transmit software defined radio (SDR) that impinges a wideband radio frequency (RF) signal (of frequency 5.23 GHz) onto either the chest or the hand of a subject…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Hasan Mujtaba Buttar , Kawish Pervez , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Kashif Riaz , Qammer H. Abbasi

This work presents a 340-GHz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) pulse-Doppler radar. The radar system is based on a transceiver module with about one milli-Watt output power and more than 30-GHz bandwidth. The front-end optics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-31 Tomas Bryllert , Marlene Bonmann , Jan Stake

We present a novel internal calibration framework for Millimeter- Wave (mmWave) Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radars to ensure robust performance under internal temperature variations, tailored for deployment in dense wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Dariush Salami , Nima Bahmani , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Stephan Sigg

The issue of privacy has gained significant attention in recent times. Many real-world applications increasingly require the use of sensitive data, such as in surveillance or tracking and assistance systems. To address these concerns, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Karim Saifullin , Sajid Ahmed , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In the continuous-wave Detection and Ranging technology, simultaneous and accurate range and velocity measurements of an unknown target are typically achieved using a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) with a heterodyne receiver.…

Radar sensing has emerged in recent years as a promising solution for unobtrusive and continuous in-home gait monitoring. This study evaluates whether a unified processing framework can be applied to radar-based spatiotemporal gait analysis…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Charalambos Hadjipanayi , Maowen Yin , Alan Bannon , Ziwei Chen , Timothy G. Constandinou