Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has emerged as a promising sensing modality for human perception due to its robustness under challenging environmental conditions and strong privacy-preserving properties. However, recovering accurate 3D human body meshes from radar observations remains difficult due to severe signal clutter and the inherently partial nature of radar measurements. Previous works typically adopt end-to-end frameworks that directly regress human body parameters from raw radar data, without decoupling signal interpretation from geometric reasoning or exploiting temporal motion cues, limiting learning performance. To address this, we propose a two-stage framework for radar-based human body reconstruction. First, we introduce a human reflection extraction module that performs coarse-to-fine localization and voxel-wise segmentation to produce a confidence-weighted radar volume encoding voxel-level human likelihood. Second, we design a motion-aware mesh recovery network that reconstructs the human body by jointly modeling per-frame geometry and inter-frame dynamics using a dual-branch architecture. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing approaches while maintaining computational efficiency.
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables privacy-friendly human sensing, but its sparse point clouds are physical measurements of view-dependent electromagnetic reflections and only indirectly characterize body articulation. Recovering a complete 3D pose from such partial, geometry-dependent observations is therefore under-constrained. Existing methods directly regress joint coordinates from paired radar-pose data, relying on the same limited paired supervision to learn radar perception, human-body structure, and their alignment. This coupling can encourage dataset-specific shortcuts under ambiguous radar observations. We propose Wave2Body, a radar-to-body token translation framework that decouples these learning targets using a self-supervised mmWave tokenizer, a pretrained compositional body tokenizer that defines the output space, and a lightweight translator between them. Experiments on M4Human and mmBody show that Wave2Body achieves stronger cross-domain generalization than previous methods while incurring much lower computational costs for training and inference. All the code and experiment results are publicly available at https://github.com/Galaxywalk/Wave2Body.
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has shown great potential for contactless, privacy-preserving, and robust human sensing, yet existing mmWave-based human mesh reconstruction (HMR) studies are still limited by the lack of benchmarks for generalization analysis under configuration shifts and fair comparison of different algorithms. To address the limitation, we present DGHMesh, a large-scale dual-radar mmWave dataset and generalization-focused benchmark for HMR. It contains data from 15 subjects performing 8 actions, with 360,000 synchronized frames collected from FMCW radar, SFCW radar, RGB images, and high-precision 3D HMR annotations. In addition, the dataset provides synchronized raw I/Q data from both radar modalities and accurately calibrated radar spatial positions. The benchmark is designed to evaluate HMR methods under diverse measurement configurations, including human position shifts, human orientation shifts, subarray size variations, and cross-subject settings. Based on DGHMesh, we also propose mmPTM, a query-based multi-radar fusion framework that jointly exploits point clouds and imaging tubes for HMR. Extensive experiments are conducted against representative baselines under different settings. The results demonstrate that mmPTM consistently achieves outstanding accuracy and competitive generalization capability across multiple sub-benchmarks, validating the effectiveness of multi-radar fusion and the practical value of the proposed dataset and benchmark for mmWave-based HMR research. DGHMesh and mmPTM are publicly available at https://github.com/SPIresearch/DGHMesh.(The complete benchmark and code will be released after paper publication)
Body shape and circumferences are clinically informative biomarkers for risk stratification, including measures such as waist to hip ratio, limb and trunk girths, yet conventional tools such as manual tape measures and optical scanners often require undressing and sustained poses. These demands slow workflows, compromise dignity, and exclude many older adults and people with limited mobility. To make measurement fast and contactless, we leverage millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar, which preserves privacy and operates through typical clothing, enabling quick full-body acquisition. In this work, we present a new optimization-based framework to recover 3D human shape and extract a comprehensive set of anthropometric measurements from volumetric mmWave data. Our method introduces a weighted registration pipeline that fits a parametric body model (SMPL) directly to the noisy mmWave point cloud. The core of our contribution is a vertex-weighting strategy that modulates a Chamfer energy function for reliable surface alignment and noise elimination. We further stabilize the fit by incorporating a foot-ground plane constraint and pose priors, optimizing directly for the SMPL parameters. Together, these components enable a fast, privacy preserving workflow that delivers high fidelity body shape and measurements through clothing without cameras or disrobing and with minimal cooperation, supporting frequent risk oriented assessments in clinics and care facilities for patients of all ages and mobility levels.
Miriam Senne, Benjamin D. Killeen, Christoph Baur +2