Overview

Millimeter-wave radar research turns reflected signals—often represented as range-Doppler maps, point clouds, or raw antenna measurements—into information about people, vehicles, and surroundings. Methods combine signal processing with neural networks for detection, tracking, pose estimation, localization, and mapping, sometimes fusing radar with cameras or lidar. Physics-based simulators and cross-modal supervision help address scarce labels, while radar’s operation in darkness, smoke, and adverse weather supports robust and privacy-preserving sensing. A central challenge is that radar data are sparse, noisy, and affected by multipath and sensor differences, so strong benchmark results do not always transfer across environments or hardware.

Latest papers

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51 papers5 papers in the last four weeks, down 29% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. FreqPKC: Frequency-Aware PeakConv for Radar Semantic Segmentation

    Oct 24, 2026Yangyong Deng, Pengyu Zhang, Shaoqiu Song +2Semantic SegmentationMillimeter-Wave Radar

  2. DyRAD: Radar Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Driving Scenes

    Sep 30, 2026Merav Keidar, Tomer Borreda, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar +1Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  3. Privacy-Preserving Full-Body Meshing from mmWave Radar via Mesh Foundation Model Supervision

    Sep 28, 2026Shuxing Zhang, Yongquan Ni, Zhenyu Ding +1Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  4. mmHRI: Towards Privacy-Preserving Human-Robot Interaction with Millimeter-Wave Radar

    Sep 28, 2026Junqiao Fan, Yuxuan Hu, Bofan Lyu +7Human Activity RecognitionMillimeter-Wave Radar

  5. Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation

    Sep 23, 2026Saimunur Rahman, Sagun Singh Shrestha, Abdelwahed Khamis +1Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  6. 4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

    Sep 16, 2026Xumin Wu, Jun Zhou, Jilin Mei +2Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  7. Accuracy- and Real-Time-Aware 4D Radar Preprocessing for Autonomous Driving Perception Systems

    Sep 16, 2026Woo-Jin Jung, Dong-Hee Paek, Jeong-Su Park +1Autonomous Driving Perception3D Object Detection

  8. ReRadar: Robust Radar Global Localization via Rotation-Equivariant Descriptor Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Duc Manh Nguyen, Truong Giang Dao, Gia Nghiem Luong +2Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  9. 3D Point Splatting for mmWave Radar Novel View Synthesis

    Sep 10, 2026Adnan Armouti, Yixuan Gao, Rajalakshmi NandakumarDifferentiable RenderingMillimeter-Wave Radar

  10. Rad-R: A Raw-ADC Radar Dataset and Capture-Invariant SSM for Hardware-Fault Diagnosis

    Aug 31, 2026Mainak Mallick, Junghwan Yim, Alankrit Gupta +1Autonomous Driving DatasetsMillimeter-Wave Radar

  11. mmIR: Frequency-Space Inverse Rendering for 3D Millimeter-Wave Radar ADC Synthesis

    Aug 28, 2026Adnan Armouti, Yixuan Gao, Rajalakshmi NandakumarMillimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  12. RbFT-Net: Rectify-Before-Fuse Temporal Radar Anchors for 4D Radar-Camera Depth Completion

    Aug 13, 2026Wentao Zhao, Shouxuan Wu, Yongtao Cen +3Camera-Radar FusionMetric Depth Estimation

  13. You Only Flow Once: Calibrated and Real-Time Radar Pose Estimation with Multi-Hypothesis Normalizing Flows

    Aug 10, 2026Jonas Leo Mueller, Sebastian Hoefler, Dario Zanca +3Normalizing FlowsMillimeter-Wave Radar

  14. Dual-Attention and Adversarial Transfer Networks for Sim-to-Real Cross-Orientation Wireless Sensing

    Aug 6, 2026Linfeng Du, Kehan Wu, Tong Zhang +1Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

  15. Radar4D-VLM: Proposal-Grounded Temporal 4D Radar Reasoning Across Frozen Language Models

    Aug 4, 2026Jiaju Han, Xuemeng Sun, Qike Zhang +6VLMs for Autonomous DrivingMillimeter-Wave Radar

  16. Teaching Foundation Models to Read mmWave: Pose-Guided Kinematic Representation for Human Behavior Understanding

    Aug 4, 2026Duo Zhang, Zhehui Yin, Zhiyun Yao +8Representation LearningHuman Activity Recognition

  17. RADAR Perception for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance onboard small-scale Quadrotor UAVs

    Aug 3, 2026Dnyandeep Mandaokar, Bernhard RinnerMillimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  18. mmRadarTwin: A Measurement-Calibrated Signal-Level Digital Twin Platform for Indoor mmWave Radar

    Jul 30, 2026Jianyi Zhou, Chenghao Zhang, Yanli Li +1Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  19. Dense Soft Weighting for Radar Ego-Velocity Estimation

    Jul 29, 2026Atar Babgei, Chenyu Zhao, Michael Breza +1Recursive Least SquaresMillimeter-Wave Radar

  20. mmSimPrior: Learning Simulation Priors for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Real-World Radar-based Human Motion Reconstruction

    Jul 25, 2026Cheng Guo, Qiming Cao, Shengkai Xu +4Synthetic Data PretrainingSim-to-Real Transfer

  21. Wave2Body: Rethinking mmWave Human Pose Estimation as Radar-to-Body Token Translation

    Jul 21, 2026Bo Liang, Chen Gong, Wei Gao +1Millimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  22. HybridSim: A Physics-Learning Hybrid Digital Twin for mmWave Human Sensing

    Jul 17, 2026Weitao Xiong, Tianyu Liu, Peng Li +4Synthetic Data GenerationMillimeter-Wave Radar

  23. DiffRadar: Differentiable Physics-Aware Radar SLAM with Gaussian Fields

    Jul 14, 2026Gaurav Bagwe, Xiaoyong Yuan, Yongji Wu +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingMillimeter-Wave Radar

  24. Millimeter Wave Radar: From Synthetic Aperture to Probabilistic Mapping

    Jul 11, 2026Jui-Te Huang, Ruoyang Xu, Michael KaessMillimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

  25. 4DR360: State Reasoning for Joint 3D Detection and Occupancy Prediction in 4D Radar-Camera Full-Scene Perception

    Jul 10, 2026Xiaokai Bai, Lianqing Zheng, Runwei Guan +3Camera-Radar FusionMillimeter-Wave Radar

  26. ActiveVital: Geometry-Aware Embodied Vital Signs Monitoring for Home Healthcare Robots

    Jun 29, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Shihao Li, Yang Xiao +3Active PerceptionMillimeter-Wave Radar

  27. Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: Close Proximity Geometry Reconstruction Using FMCW Radar Shadow Effects

    Jun 24, 2026Felix de Trogoff du Boisguezennec, Benjamin Ramtoula, Daniele De Martini3D ReconstructionMillimeter-Wave Radar

  28. RadarTwin: Scene-Specific mmWave Radar Simulation and Learning for Mobile Indoor Perception

    Jun 24, 2026Emily Bejerano, Federico Tondolo, Devang Gupta +5Sim-to-Real TransferMillimeter-Wave Radar