Human activity classification with radar signal processing and machine learning
M Jia (University of Glasgow)
Shaoxuan Li (University of Glasgow)
Julien Le Kernec (University of Glasgow)
Shufan Yang (University of Glasgow)
F. Fioranelli (TU Delft - Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
Olivier Romain (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
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Abstract
As the number of older adults increases worldwide, new paradigms for indoor activity monitoring are required to keep people living at home independently longer. Radar-based human activity recognition has been identified as a sensing modality of choice because it is privacy-preserving and does not require end-users compliance or manipulation. In this paper, we explore the robustness of machine learning algorithms for human activity recognition using six different activities from the University of Glasgow dataset recorded with an FMCW radar. The raw radar data is pre-processed and represented using four different domains, namely, range-time, range-Doppler amplitude and phase diagrams, and Cadence Velocity Diagram. From those, salient features can be extracted and classified using Support Vector Machine, Stacked AutoEncoder, and Convolutional Neural Networks. The fusion of handcrafted features and features from CNN is applied to get the best scheme of classification with over 96% accuracy.