mmWave Radar Sensing

mmWave: Millimeter Wave

Overview

Millimeter-wave radar sensing studies how to recover useful information about people and environments from reflected radio signals, including motion and distance measurements that can work without identifiable images and in poor visibility. Methods process raw I/Q signals, range-Doppler tensors, or sparse point clouds using signal processing, neural networks, and radar-camera or radar-LiDAR fusion. Applications include 4D automotive detection and mapping, human pose and activity recognition, vital-sign monitoring, and robot localization; evaluation uses driving, indoor, and health datasets, often across people, environments, and weather conditions. A central challenge is making systems reliable under sparse measurements, multipath, sensor misalignment, and distribution shifts, while balancing learned representations against physical modeling and the cost of collecting diverse real-world data.

Latest papers

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85 papers12 papers in the last four weeks, up 33% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Doppler-aided Position-Velocity Tracking of Hidden Objects using mmWave Radar

    Oct 25, 2026Yerin Cheon, Kush Garg, Akshat DaveWireless LocalizationmmWave Radar Sensing

  2. Structured-Token Attention for Fine-Grained mmWave Liquid Identification

    Oct 20, 2026Junseo Min, Joongheon KimClassificationAttention Mechanisms

  3. Real-Time Radar Semantic and Panoptic Scene Understanding

    Oct 19, 2026Santosh Parit, Julia Hindel, Rohit Mohan +4Autonomous Driving PerceptionPanoptic Segmentation

  4. mmPencil: Toward Writing-Style-Independent In-Air Handwriting Recognition via mmWave Radar and Large Vision-Language Model

    Oct 16, 2026Yifan Guo, Zhu Wang, Qian Qin +6mmWave Radar Sensing

  5. RadarGSOcc: Doppler-Aware 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction Using 4D Radar Tensor with Geometric-Semantic Feature Extraction

    Oct 13, 2026Christofel Rio Goenawan, Dong-Hee Paek, Seung-Hyun Kong3D Occupancy PredictionAutonomous Driving Perception

  6. Radar2Plan: Benchmarking 4D Radar for End-to-End Open-Loop Ego-Trajectory Planning

    Oct 5, 2026Ling Yao, Yichun Xiao, Jin Jin +2Autonomous Driving BenchmarksCamera-Radar Fusion

  7. Kapture: Capturing Cardiac Dynamics with Koopman-Governed Learning for Efficient Radar-Based Electrocardiogram Recovery

    Oct 4, 2026Tong Wu, Jing Peng, Ziqi Feng +1ElectrocardiographymmWave Radar Sensing

  8. Learning to Assess Heartbeat Observability for mmWave Heart-Rate Sensing

    Oct 2, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Shilin Shan, Jianfei Yang +1Heart Rate EstimationmmWave Radar Sensing

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

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

  10. 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

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

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

  12. SGDet3D++: Geometry-Grounded Semantics for 4D Radar and Camera 3D Object Detection

    Sep 23, 2026Xiaokai Bai, Zhenyu Fan, Lianqing Zheng +3Camera-Radar FusionmmWave Radar Sensing

  13. 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

  14. Do Spinning Radar Doppler Velocity Measurements Improve Vehicle Detection and Tracking?

    Sep 17, 2026Eric Xie, Daniil Lisus, Timothy D. BarfootAutonomous Driving PerceptionObject Detection

  15. 4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

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

  16. 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

  17. RF-VoID: Towards Bandwidth-Efficient Exterior Tile Void Detection via Narrowband Radio-Frequency Representation Learning

    Sep 11, 2026Xinyan Chen, Ruiqin Ma, Shunsuke Shoda +5Representation LearningmmWave Radar Sensing

  18. 3D Point Splatting for mmWave Radar Novel View Synthesis

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

  19. 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

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

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

  21. A comparison between ceiling-mounted FMCW, IR-UWB and Wi-Fi radar for in-bedroom human activity monitoring and sleep interruption detection

    Aug 20, 2026Anton Lambrecht, Reda El Hail, Xianjun Jiao +5Human Activity RecognitionWi-Fi Sensing

  22. One Residual with Three Reuses: A Wristband Front End for Gesture Sensing

    Aug 17, 2026Mouhssine RifakiWearable SensingMultimodal Sensor Fusion

  23. IRGNN: Efficient Invariant Radar Graph Neural Network for Radar Point Cloud Object Detection

    Aug 14, 2026Xiao Guo, Wanke Xia, Lili Yang +13D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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