Variational Message Passing-based Respiratory Motion Estimation and Detection Using Radar Signals

Jakob Möderl*, Erik Leitinger, Franz Pernkopf, Klaus Witrisal

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present a variational message passing (VMP)-based approach to detect the presence of a person based on their respiratory chest motion using multistatic ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. In the process, the respiratory motion is estimated for contact-free vital sign monitoring. The received signal is modeled as a backscatter channel and the respiratory motion and propagation channels are estimated using VMP. We use the evidence lower bound (ELBO) to approximate the model evidence for the detection. Numerical analyses and measurements demonstrate that the proposed method leads to a significant improvement in the detection performance compared to a fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based detector or an estimator-correlator in low-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, since the multipath components (MPCs) are better incorporated into the detection procedure. Specifically, the proposed method has a detection probability of 0.95 at −20dB SNR, while the estimator-correlator and FFT-based detector have 0.32 and 0.05, respectively.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Proceedings
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728163277
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2023
Event48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing: ICASSP 2023 - Rhodos, Greece
Duration: 4 Jun 20239 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Abbreviated titleICASSP 2023
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodos
Period4/06/239/06/23

Keywords

  • occupancy detection
  • Ultra-wideband radar
  • variational message passing
  • vital sign estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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