Human micro-doppler detection and classification studies at Mersin University using real outdoor experiments via C-band FMCW radar

Abstract

In this work, a unique radar hardware is introduced for human-gait micro-Doppler studies. The developed radar sensor operates in C-band microwave frequencies. We share several outdoor experiments at Mersin University facilities to detect and characterize human walking and running movements. In these experiments, various walking and running movements were performed with different people. To examine the Doppler properties of human motion, raw data gathered is transformed onto 2D joint-time-frequency plane. The generation of micro-Doppler signatures in the transformed data is the first step in the extraction of features of the walking/running human motion. It is shown that the directions, durations, range distances as well as torso and limb velocities of walking and running human movements in each experiment are successfully obtained from these micro-Doppler signatures.

Keywords

• Micro-doppler radar
• Radar imaging
• Spectrogram
• Human detection and classification

Supporting Institution

Mersin University Scientific Research Unit

Project Number

Mersin University Scientific Research Unit under Project No. 2018-2-TP3-2924.

Ethical Statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Thanks

Authors would like to thank Gökhan Karabacak for his help during experiments.

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