SPS SA-TWG Webinar: Widely Distributed Indoor Radar Imaging
Date: 11 December 2024
Time: 10:00 AM ET (New York Time)
Speaker(s): M. R. Bhavani Shankar
This webinar is the next in a series by the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Technical Working Group (SA-TWG)
Abstract
Distributed Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar sensors have emerged as critical monitoring devices in various indoor applications, owing to their resilience to environmental conditions, non-intrusiveness, and cost-effectiveness. This talk presents advancements in radar signal processing techniques tailored for indoor scenarios, with a focus on enhancing two output representations: 2D spatial reflectivity images and detection point clouds. This is done towards the goal of facilitate subsequent analysis using classical image processing or advanced deep learning techniques for the various indoor applications. The talk will identify challenges associated with generating high-quality reflectivity images from widely distributed radar sensors and presents methods to reconstruct global reflectivity images. Impact of various parameters and ubiquitous synchronization issues will be highlighted.
Biography
M. R. Bhavani Shankar received Masters and Ph. D in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2000 and 2007 respectively. He was a Post Doc at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden from 2007 to September 2009. He joined SnT in October 2009 as a Research Associate and is currently a Senior Research Scientist/ Assistant Professor at SnT leading the Radar Signal Processing activities. He was with Beceem Communications, Bangalore from 2006 to 2007 as a Staff Design Engineer working on Physical Layer algorithms for WiMAX compliant chipsets. He was a visiting student at the Communication Theory Group, ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Helmut Bölcskei during 2004. Prior to joining Ph. D, he worked on Audio Coding algorithms in Sasken Communications, Bangalore as a Design Engineer from 2000 to 2001. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Benelux joint chapter on communications and vehicular technology, serves as handling editor for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and is a member of the IEEE SPS SAM Technical Committee. He was a co-recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award, from the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society and co-author of the paper that received Special Mention for the Barry Carlton best paper award by IEEE TAES in 2023.
