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Animating Vital-signs for Radar Simulations: Comparing Physical Optics Against 28.5 GHz Channel Measurements

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Jihoon Bang, Jack Chuang, Jelena Senic, Samuel Berweger, Steve Blandino, Camillo Gentile

Abstract

Monitoring vital signs such as breathing or heart rates as well as other physical movements in complex environments is the basis for many emerging applications spanning from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. Designing Radar systems capable of remotely monitoring these movements necessitates measurement campaigns in combination with advanced machine-learning algorithms. Despite the compelling applications and the need for large and diverse data sets for validation of design, there are few examples of simulated human movement in multipath environments in the literature. To address this gap, the work presented here outlines a method to accurately simulate Radar back-scatter from time varying human movement. Specifically, we animate human breathing with anatomically accurate mathematical models through physical-optics-based simulation and validated them against monostatic Radar measurements with a 28.5 GHz channel sounder in a semi-anechoic chamber by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, capturing phase and path loss over time from a human breathing positioned 2 m away. Using vital sensor data as ground truth, we demonstrate the animations to match the simulated human's breathing patterns and heart rate. Furthermore, the simulation resulted in excellent agreement with the measured phase across ten breaths, and had a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 2.1 dB in path loss.
Proceedings Title
2024 IEEE Radar Conference
Conference Dates
May 6-10, 2024
Conference Location
Denver, CO, US
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

Raytracing, Physical Optics, human breathing, mmWave, WaveFarer
Wireless (RF), Visualization research, Virtual / augmented reality, Radiation, Cybersecurity and privacy, Next generation networks, Networking, Network test and measurement, Network modeling and analysis, Network management and monitoring, Modeling and simulation research, Mobile and wireless networking, Mobile, Medical imaging, Internet of Things (IoT), Information technology, Health IT, Forensic biometrics, Electromagnetics, Digital evidence, Biometrics, Bioinformatics and Advanced communications

Citation

Bang, J. , Chuang, J. , Senic, J. , Berweger, S. , Blandino, S. and Gentile, C. (2024), Animating Vital-signs for Radar Simulations: Comparing Physical Optics Against 28.5 GHz Channel Measurements, 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, Denver, CO, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957053 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created June 13, 2024, Updated August 29, 2025
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