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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Whitening-Aided Learning from Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures for Human Activity Recognition.

Zahra Sadeghi Adl, Fauzia Ahmad

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Zahra Sadeghi AdlDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
Fauzia AhmadDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1446-5154

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Abstract

Deep learning architectures are being increasingly adopted for human activity recognition using radar technology. A majority of these architectures are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and accept radar micro-Doppler signatures as input. The state-of-the-art CNN-based models employ batch normalization (BN) to optimize network training and improve generalization. In this paper, we present whitening-aided CNN models for classifying human activities with radar sensors. We replace BN layers in a CNN model with whitening layers, which is shown to improve the model's accuracy by not only centering and scaling activations, similar to BN, but also decorrelating them. We also exploit the rotational freedom afforded by whitening matrices to align the whitened activations in the latent space with the corresponding activity classes. Using real data measurements of six different activities, we show that whitening provides superior performance over BN in terms of classification accuracy for a CNN-based classifier. This demonstrates the potential of whitening-aided CNN models to provide enhanced human activity recognition with radar sensors.

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Human ActivitiesRadarHumansNeural Networks, ComputerRecognition, PsychologyTechnologyconvolutional neural networkdeep learninghuman activity recognitionmicro-Dopplerwhitening

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PMID37687942
PMCPMC10490630

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