Radar Sensing in Healthcare: Challenges and Achievements in Human Activity Classification & Vital Signs Monitoring

Driven by its contactless sensing capabilities and the lack of optical images being recorded, radar technology has been recently investigated in the context of human healthcare. This includes a broad range of applications, such as human activity classification, fall detection, gait and mobility analysis, and monitoring of vital signs such as...

Radar sensing for human healthcare: Challenges and results

In this paper, radar sensing in the domain of human healthcare is discussed, specifically looking at the typical applications of human activity classification (including fall detection), gait analysis and gait parameters extraction, and vital signs monitoring such as respiration and heartbeat. A brief overview of open research challenges and...

Radar and video multimodal learning for human activity classification

Camera systems are widely used for surveillance in the security and defense domains. The main advantages of camera systems are their high resolution, their ease of use, and the fact that optical imagery is easy to interpret for human operators. However, particularly when considering application in the defense domain, cameras have some...