Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: receiving radar data indicating one or more measurement signals of a Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar sensor; determining a multidimensional array representation of the radar data; determining a range of a person nearest to the FMCW radar sensor from the multidimensional array representation of the radar data; defining a gesture detection zone based on the determined range of the person, the gesture detection zone covering exclusively ranges up to the determined range of the person; searching exclusively the gesture detection zone for hand movements of the person; in response to a hand movement of the person being in the gesture detection zone, extracting a time-series of one or more feature of the hand movement; and determining a gesture of the person based on the time-series of the one or more features of the hand movement.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving radar digital data; processing the radar digital data with a plurality of sine filters to generate a respective plurality of range-slow-time data, where each sine filter is associated with a respective range zone of a plurality of range zones; generating a first presence score based on a first range-slow-time data of the plurality of range-slow-time data, where the first range-slow-time data is associated with the first range zone; and when the first presence score is higher than a predetermined threshold, generating a plurality of synthetic antennas based on the first range-slow-time data, performing angle estimation based on the plurality of synthetic antennas to generate first probability values for a plurality of angle zones associated with the first range zone, and updating an occupancy grid map based on the first probability values.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a plurality of radar signals using a millimeter-wave radar sensor towards a target; receiving a plurality of reflected radar signals that correspond to the plurality of transmitted radar signals using the millimeter-wave radar; mixing a replica of the plurality of transmitted radar signals with the plurality of received reflected radar signals to generate an intermediate frequency signal; generating raw digital data based on the intermediate frequency signal using an analog-to-digital converter; processing the raw digital data using a constrained L dimensional convolutional layer of a neural network to generate intermediate digital data, where L is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and where the neural network includes a plurality of additional layers; and processing the intermediate digital data using the plurality of additional layers to generate information about the target.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: generating a target displacement signal indicative of a movement of a human target based on raw digital data generated by a millimeter-wave radar sensor; and estimating a vital sign of the human target based on the target displacement signal, where generating the target displacement signal includes: generating target in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) (I/Q) data associated with the human target based on the raw digital data, classifying the target I/Q data as high quality data or as low quality data using a first neural network, when the target I/Q data is classified as low quality data, discarding the target I/Q data, when the target I/Q data is classified as high quality data, performing ellipse fitting on the target I/Q data to generate compensated I/Q data, and generating the target displacement signal based on the compensated I/Q data.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a plurality of radar signals using a millimeter-wave radar sensor towards a target; receiving a plurality of reflected radar signals that correspond to the plurality of transmitted radar signals using the millimeter-wave radar; mixing a replica of the plurality of transmitted radar signals with the plurality of received reflected radar signals to generate an intermediate frequency signal; generating raw digital data based on the intermediate frequency signal using an analog-to-digital converter; processing the raw digital data using a constrained L dimensional convolutional layer of a neural network to generate intermediate digital data, where L is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and where the neural network includes a plurality of additional layers; and processing the intermediate digital data using the plurality of additional layers to generate information about the target.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a time sequence of measurement frames of a radar measurement of a scene comprising an object; based on multiple subsequent measurement frames of the time sequence of measurement frames, determining one or more one-dimensional (1-D) time series of respective observables of the radar measurement associated with the object; and based on the one or more 1-D time series, determining a motion class of a motion performed by the object using a classification algorithm

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: obtaining one or more positional time spectrograms of a radar measurement of a scene comprising an object; and based on the one or more positional time spectrograms and based on a feature embedding of a variational auto-encoder neural network, predicting a gesture class of a gesture performed by the object.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a plurality of radar signals using a millimeter-wave radar sensor towards a target; receiving a plurality of reflected radar signals that correspond to the plurality of transmitted radar signals using the millimeter-wave radar; mixing a replica of the plurality of transmitted radar signals with the plurality of received reflected radar signals to generate an intermediate frequency signal; generating raw digital data based on the intermediate frequency signal using an analog-to-digital converter; processing the raw digital data using a constrained L dimensional convolutional layer of a neural network to generate intermediate digital data, where L is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and where the neural network includes a plurality of additional layers; and processing the intermediate digital data using the plurality of additional layers to generate information about the target.