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  • Radar Signal Processing
  • Embedded Systems
  • Machine Learning

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  • Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radars offer potential for non-invasive sensing.
  • Intelligent sensor development requires energy-efficient data analysis solutions.
  • Existing methods for respiratory activity detection may lack hardware implementation feasibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a simple algorithm for respiratory activity detection using FMCW radar data.
  • To propose a computational architecture suitable for custom digital-analog VLSI hardware.
  • To develop an energy-efficient data analysis solution for life-sign detection and human trafficking prevention.

Main Methods:

  • Algorithm development involving data summarization into motion descriptors.
  • Classification of descriptors using a recurrent neural network with gated recurrent units.
  • Analog VLSI circuit design, manufacturing, and testing to inform neural model constraints.

Main Results:

  • A novel training loss component and weight diversification mechanism were introduced to handle VLSI constraints.
  • Experimental evaluation using indoor recordings demonstrated high performance.
  • The algorithm achieved over 94% human detection accuracy and comparable F1 scores.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed algorithm is simple and hardware implementation-friendly.
  • The approach offers a unique, energy-efficient solution for intelligent FMCW sensor development.
  • The method shows significant promise for applications requiring life-sign detection under limited visibility.