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Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) radar can enable high-resolution human pose estimation with low cost and computational requirements. However, mmWave data point cloud, the primary input to processing algorithms, is highly sparse and carries…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Sizhe An , Umit Y. Ogras

Contact-free vital sign monitoring, which uses wireless signals for recognizing human vital signs (i.e, breath and heartbeat), is an attractive solution to health and security. However, the subject's body movement and the change in actual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Yingqi Wang , Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Haimin Zhang , Min Xu

This study proposes an accurate method to estimate human body orientation using a millimeter-wave radar system. Body displacement is measured from the phase of the radar echo, which is analyzed to obtain features associated with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Wenxu Sun , Shunsuke Iwata , Yuji Tanaka , Takuya Sakamoto

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential in healthcare, elder care, security, and human-computer interaction. The use of precise sensor data to identify activities passively and continuously makes HAR accessible and ubiquitous.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Argha Sen , Anirban Das , Swadhin Pradhan , Sandip Chakraborty

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

Millimetre-wave (mmWave) radars can generate 3D point clouds to represent objects in the scene. However, the accuracy and density of the generated point cloud can be lower than a laser sensor. Although researchers have used mmWave radars…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Han Cui , Jiacheng Wu , Naim Dahnoun

Social distancing and temperature screening have been widely employed to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking great interest from academia, industry and public administrations worldwide. While most solutions have dealt with these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Marco Canil , Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

A novel, real-time, mm-Wave radar-based static hand shape classification algorithm and implementation are proposed. The method finds several applications in low cost and privacy sensitive touchless control technology using 60 Ghz radar as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan , Asma Beevi K. T , Haoyang Wu , Jingyi Ma , W. Margaret Huang

We revisit millimeter-wave (mmWave) human pose estimation (HPE) from a signal preprocessing perspective. A single mmWave frame provides structured dimensions that map directly to human geometry and motion: range, angle, and Doppler,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shuntian Zheng , Jiaqi Li , Minzhe Ni , Xiaoman Lu , Yu Guan

Pose estimation and human action recognition (HAR) are pivotal technologies spanning various domains. While the image-based pose estimation and HAR are widely admired for their superior performance, they lack in privacy protection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abdullah Al Masud , Shi Xintong , Mondher Bouazizi , Ohtsuki Tomoaki

We propose a scalable neural network framework to reconstruct the 3D mesh of a human body from multi-view images, in the subspace of the SMPL model. Use of multi-view images can significantly reduce the projection ambiguity of the problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Junbang Liang , Ming C. Lin

Millimeter wave (mmWave) based gesture recognition technology provides a good human computer interaction (HCI) experience. Prior works focus on the close-range gesture recognition, but fall short in range extension, i.e., they are unable to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Yu Liu , Yuheng Wang , Haipeng Liu , Anfu Zhou , Jianhua Liu , Ning Yang

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) enables privacy-preserving, illumination-robust human pose estimation (HPE), with each mmWave frame represented as a range-angle-Doppler tensor, providing spatial magnitude for localization and Doppler signatures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shuntian Zheng , Jiaqi Li , Xiaoman Lu , Shuai He , Yu Guan

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

Heart rate recovery (HRR) within the initial minute following exercise is a widely utilized metric for assessing cardiac autonomic function in individuals and predicting mortality risk in patients with cardiovascular disease. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Ziheng Mao , Yuan He , Jia Zhang , Yimiao Sun , Yadong Xie , Xiuzhen Guo

Imaging using millimeter waves (mmWs) has many advantages including the ability to penetrate obscurants such as clothes and polymers. After having explored shape information retrieved from mmW images for person recognition, in this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 E. Gonzalez-Sosa , J. Fierrez , R. Vera-Rodriguez , F. Alonso-Fernandez , V. M. Patel

Human pose estimation (HPE) from Radio Frequency vision (RF-vision) performs human sensing using RF signals that penetrate obstacles without revealing privacy (e.g., facial information). Recently, mmWave radar has emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Junqiao Fan , Jianfei Yang , Yuecong Xu , Lihua Xie

mmWave radars offer excellent depth resolution even at very long ranges owing to their high bandwidth. But their angular resolution is at least an order-of-magnitude worse than camera and lidar systems. Hence, mmWave radar is not a capable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Akarsh Prabhakara , Diana Zhang , Chao Li , Sirajum Munir , Aswin Sankanaryanan , Anthony Rowe , Swarun Kumar

While methods that regress 3D human meshes from images have progressed rapidly, the estimated body shapes often do not capture the true human shape. This is problematic since, for many applications, accurate body shape is as important as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Vasileios Choutas , Lea Muller , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Siyu Tang , Dimitrios Tzionas , Michael J. Black