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This study presents the progress of our recent research regarding wireless measurements of the human body. First, we explain radar imaging algorithms for screening passengers at security checkpoints that can process data faster than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Takuya Sakamoto

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

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

The identification of pedestrians using radar micro-Doppler signatures has become a hot topic in recent years. In this paper, we propose a multi-characteristic learning (MCL) model with clusters to jointly learn discrepant pedestrian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Yu Xiang , Yu Huang , Haodong Xu , Guangbo Zhang , Wenyong Wang

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

Unique micro-Doppler signature ($\boldsymbol{\mu}$-D) of a human body motion can be analyzed as the superposition of different body parts $\boldsymbol{\mu}$-D signatures. Extraction of human limbs $\boldsymbol{\mu}$-D signatures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Sherif Abdulatif , Fady Aziz , Bernhard Kleiner , Urs Schneider

When wireless communication signals impinge on a moving human they are affected by micro-Doppler. A passive receiver of the resulting signals can calculate the spectrogram that produces different signatures depending on the human activity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Antonios Argyriou

Radar-based human activity recognition has gained attention as a privacy-preserving alternative to vision and wearable sensors, especially in sensitive environments like long-term care facilities. Micro-Doppler spectrograms derived from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Davis Liu , Munia Humaira , Peter Lee , Zhou Wang

This study proposes a personal identification technique that applies machine learning with a two-layered convolutional neural network to spectrogram images obtained from radar echoes of a target person in motion. The walking and sitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Takuya Sakamoto

Doppler radar systems enable unobtrusive and privacy-preserving long-term monitoring of human motions indoors. In particular, a person's gait can provide important information about their state of health. Utilizing micro-Doppler signatures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Ann-Kathrin Seifert , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Moeness G. Amin

We demonstrate the classification of common motions of held objects using the harmonic micro-Doppler signatures scattered from harmonic radio-frequency tags. Harmonic tags capture incident signals and retransmit at harmonic frequencies,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Cory Hilton , Steve Bush , Faiz Sherman , Matt Barker , Aditya Deshpande , Steve Willeke , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

We develop novel methods for device-free localization (DFL) using transceivers in motion. Such localization technologies are useful in various cross-layer applications/protocols including those that are related to security situations where…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Peter Hillyard , Dustin Maas , Sriram Premnath , Neal Patwari , Sneha Kasera

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been the subject of intense research for the classification of radio frequency (RF) signals, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery or micro-Doppler signatures. However, a fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-21 Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Baris Erol , Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz , Moeness G. Amin

In radar activity recognition, 2D signal representations such as spectrogram, cepstrum and cadence velocity diagram are often utilized, while range information is often neglected. In this work, we propose to utilize the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Zeyu Wang , Chenglin Yao , Jianfeng Ren , Xudong Jiang

Motion tracking systems based on optical sensors typically often suffer from issues, such as poor lighting conditions, occlusion, limited coverage, and may raise privacy concerns. More recently, radio frequency (RF)-based approaches using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Chong Tang , Wenda Li , Shelly Vishwakarma , Fangzhan Shi , Simon Julier , Kevin Chetty

This study presents a novel multi-static radar technique for space debris characterisation using micro-Doppler signatures, developed within the Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Programme (SHARP). The method employs C-band continuous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Guifré Molera Calvés , Shinji Horiuchi , Edwin Peters , Ed Kruzins , Nick Stacy

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

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

Due to its high delay resolution, the ultra-wideband (UWB) technique has been widely adopted for fine-grained indoor localization. Instead of active positioning, UWB radar-based passive human tracking is explored using commercial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Chenglong Li , Emmeric Tanghe , Jaron Fontaine , Luc Martens , Jac Romme , Gaurav Singh , Eli De Poorter , Wout Joseph

The prompt and accurate recognition of Continuous Human Activity (CHAR) is critical in identifying and responding to health events, particularly fall risk assessment. In this paper, we examine a multi-antenna radar system that can process…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 John Kobak , Bennett J. Richman , LaJuan Washington , Syed A. Hamza