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Bouwmeester, W. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A method for extracting fully polarimetric statistical properties of road surface radar cross sections is presented. This method is subsequently applied to extract radar cross section information from an asphalt road surface. Furthermore, an approach is introduced to synthesise the scattered signal of road surface returns as measured by a radar....conference paper 2023
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Martone, Anthony F. (author)In this article, a statistical model of human motion as observed by a network of radar sensors is presented where knowledge on the position and heading of the target provides information on the observation conditions of each sensor node. Sequences of motions are estimated from measurements of instantaneous Doppler frequency, which captures...journal article 2022
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Recognition of continuous human activities is investigated in unconstrained movement directions using multiple spatially distributed radar nodes, where activities can occur at unfavourable aspect angles or occluded perspectives when using a single node. Furthermore, such networks are favourable not only for the aforementioned aim, but also for...conference paper 2022
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Sethuraman, H. Visvanathan (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The ability of a fully polarimetric radar to discriminate between payloads carried by UAVs is demonstrated. A novel approach has been employed in the feature extraction algorithm, where features from individual and combined polarimetric channels are extracted for classification. Decision and ensemble fusions on the respective extracted features...conference paper 2022
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Han, Y. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)This research aims to develop a contactless, radar-based sleep apnea detection method. A novel identification approach for this is proposed, based on the envelope of UWB radar spectrograms and machine learning. The envelope of the spectrogram is extracted by an image-based method, followed by signal smoothing via variational mode decomposition ...conference paper 2022
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Zhao, Yubin (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The feasibility of classifying human activities measured by a distributed ultra-wideband (UWB) radar system using Range-Doppler (RD) images as the input to classifiers is investigated. Kinematic characteristics of different human activities are expected to be captured in high-resolution range-Doppler images measured by UWB radars. To construct...conference paper 2022
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Bouwmeester, W. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A method to compute road surface signatures in the automotive scenario is presented. This method is subsequently applied to a rough asphalt surface without undulations. It is shown that, due to the observation geometry, the road surface signature experiences significant spreading along the Doppler-axis, resulting in a distinct range-Doppler map...conference paper 2022
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Yang, Ximei (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Human activities classification in assisted living is one of the emerging applications of radar. The conventional analysis considers micro-Doppler signatures as the chosen input for feature extraction or deep learning classification algorithms, or, less frequently, other radar data formats such as the range-time, the range-Doppler, or the...conference paper 2022
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Cognitive radar frameworks rely on the ability to quantify and reason on future uncertainty, which allows for the selection of an optimal decision policy. These methods require that the uncertainty estimates provided by the underlying statistical model are well-calibrated, i.e. consistent with true uncertainty. In this work, the utilization of...conference paper 2022
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Continuous Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in arbitrary directions is investigated using 5 spatially distributed pulsed Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radars. Such activities performed in arbitrary and unconstrained trajectories render a more natural occurrence of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) to be recognized. An innovative signal level fusion method...conference paper 2022
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Zhu, S. (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Unconstrained human activities recognition with a radar network is considered. A hybrid classifier combining both convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for spatial–temporal pattern extraction is proposed. The 2-D CNNs (2D-CNNs) are first applied to the radar data to perform spatial feature extraction on the...journal article 2022
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Roldan Montero, I. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The problem of extended target cross-section estimation has been considered. A two-step method based on the Total Variation Compressive Sensing theory has been proposed to solve it. First, a coarse estimation of the target cross-section is performed with classical beamforming methods, and then Compressive Sensing algorithms have been applied...conference paper 2022
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Continuous Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in arbitrary directions is investigated in this paper using a network of five spatially distributed pulsed Ultra-Wideband radars. While activities performed continuously and in unconstrained trajectories provide a more realistic and natural scenario for HAR, the network of radar sensors is proposed...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Aubry, P.J. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The ambiguity problem of targets in Doppler beam sharpening (DBS) with forward-looking radar is considered. While DBS is proposed earlier to improve the angular resolution of the radar while keeping the antenna aperture size limited, such a solution suffers from ambiguities in the case of targets positioned symmetrically with respect to the...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A method exploiting the movement of the vehicle to boost the cross-range resolution of automotive radar by forming a larger virtual array is proposed. Initial simulated results show that the proposed method with the traditional Digital beamforming (DBF) algorithm can separate targets that cannot be otherwise recognized by the traditional MIMO...conference paper 2022
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Roldan Montero, I. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Poor angular resolution is one of the main disadvantages of automotive radars, and the reason why lidar technology is widely used in the automotive industry. For a fixed frequency, the angular resolution of a conventional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar is limited by the number of physical antennas, and therefore improve the...conference paper 2022
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Zhao, Yubin (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The need for technologies for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in home environments is becoming more and more urgent because of the aging population worldwide. Radar-based HAR is typically using micro-Doppler signatures as one of the main data representations, in conjunction with classification algorithms often inspired from deep learning...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A direction-finding approach for arrays with a limited number of antenna elements has been investigated. A method based on the harmonic analysis of the received signal has been proposed to solve it. The angle estimation accuracy has been improved by angle searching and peak detection. The proposed method is theoretically described and...conference paper 2022
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Svenningsson, P.O. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this paper, the classification of human activity from micro-Doppler spectrograms measured by a radar network is considered. To cope with differences between the training and test datasets due to changes in the set of participants, signal-to-noise ratio and polarimetry, domain adaptation is proposed. To realize this, linear mapping between the...conference paper 2021
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Guendel, Ronny (author), Unterhorst, M. (author), Gambi, Ennio (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Continuous Activities of Daily Living (ADL) recognition in an arbitrary movement direction using five distributed pulsed Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radars in a coordinated network is proposed. Classification approaches in unconstrained activity trajectories that render a more natural occurrence for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are investigated....conference paper 2021