Accurate Person Identification Based on Combined Sit-to-Stand and Stand-to-Sit Movements Measured Using Doppler Radars

This article demonstrates the identification of 10 persons with 99% accuracy achieved by combining micro-Doppler signatures of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit movements. Data from these movements are measured using two radars installed above and behind the person. Images of Doppler spectrograms generated using the measured data are combined and input to a convolutional neural network. Experimental results show the significantly better accuracy of the proposed method compared with conventional methods that do not perform data combination. The accuracy of identifying 10 participants having similar ages and physical features was 96–99%, despite the relatively small training set (number of training samples: 50–90 Doppler radar images per person). These results suggest that combining sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit movements provides sufficient information for accurate person identification and such information can be remotely acquired using Doppler radar measurements.