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Data sharing is a necessity for innovative progress in many domains, especially in healthcare. However, the ability to share data is hindered by regulations protecting the privacy of natural persons. Synthetic tabular data provide a…
Most smart systems such as smart home and smart health response to human's locations and activities. However, traditional solutions are either require wearable sensors or lead to leaking privacy. This work proposes an ambient radar solution…
Radar has stronger adaptability in adverse scenarios for autonomous driving environmental perception compared to widely adopted cameras and LiDARs. Compared with commonly used 3D radars, the latest 4D radars have precise vertical resolution…
This paper takes initial strides at designing and evaluating a vision-based system for privacy ensured activity monitoring. The proposed technology utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-empowered proactive systems offering continuous…
Thermal images are mainly used to detect the presence of people at night or in bad lighting conditions, but perform poorly at daytime. To solve this problem, most state-of-the-art techniques employ a fusion network that uses features from…
Real-time spatial monitoring in underground longwall operations is challenging due to methane-related safety risks, poor visibility, elevated thermal loads, spatial confinement, and bandwidth-limited communications. Currently available…
The world is expecting an aging population and shortage of healthcare professionals. This poses the problem of providing a safe and dignified life for the elderly. Technological solutions involving cameras can contribute to safety, comfort…
Robust 3D object detection in extreme weather and illumination conditions is a challenging task. While radars and thermal cameras are known for their resilience to these conditions, few studies have been conducted on radar-thermal fusion…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar-based gesture recognition is gaining attention as a key technology to enable intuitive human-machine interaction. Nevertheless, the significant challenge lies in obtaining large-scale, high-quality mmWave…
Deploying human activity recognition (HAR) at home is still rare because sensor signals vary wildly across houses, people, and time, essentially requiring in-situ data collection and training. Prior approaches use cameras to generate…
We present a scene representation, which we call a tactile-augmented radiance field (TaRF), that brings vision and touch into a shared 3D space. This representation can be used to estimate the visual and tactile signals for a given 3D…
Robust and privacy-preserving indoor scene understanding remains a fundamental open problem. While optical sensors such as RGB and LiDAR offer high spatial fidelity, they suffer from severe occlusions and introduce privacy risks in indoor…
A 3D ISAR security imaging experiment at 24GHz is demonstrated with a sparse MIMO array. The MIMO array is an 8Tx/16Rx linear array to achieve real-aperture imaging along the vertical dimension. It is time-switching multiplexed with a…
We contribute MIDAS as a novel sensing solution for characterizing everyday objects using thermal dissipation. MIDAS takes advantage of the fact that anytime a person touches an object it results in heat transfer. By capturing and modeling…
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,…
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…
Thermal infrared (IR) images represent the heat patterns emitted from hot object and they do not consider the energies reflected from an object. Objects living or non-living emit different amounts of IR energy according to their body…
Multi-Object Tracking in thermal images is essential for surveillance systems, particularly in challenging environments where RGB cameras struggle due to low visibility or poor lighting conditions. Thermal sensors enhance recognition tasks…
Accurate 3D person detection is critical for safety in applications such as robotics, industrial monitoring, and surveillance. This work presents a systematic evaluation of 3D person detection using camera-only, LiDAR-only, and camera-LiDAR…
Sensor-equipped unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to help reduce search times and alleviate safety risks for first responders carrying out Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) operations, the process of finding and…