eprintid: 10120445 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/12/04/45 datestamp: 2021-02-02 11:57:25 lastmod: 2021-09-20 22:14:26 status_changed: 2021-02-02 11:57:25 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Tang, C creators_name: Vishwakarma, S creators_name: Li, W creators_name: Adve, R creators_name: Julier, S creators_name: Chetty, K title: Augmenting Experimental Data with Simulations to Improve Activity Classification in Healthcare Monitoring ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 divisions: F52 keywords: Passive WiFi Sensing, micro-Dopplers, activity recognition, deep learning, simulator note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Human micro-Doppler signatures in most passive WiFi radar (PWR) scenarios are captured through real-world measurements using various hardware platforms. However, gathering large volumes of high quality and diverse real radar datasets has always been an expensive and laborious task. This work presents an open-source motion capture data-driven simulation tool SimHumalator that is able to generate human microDoppler radar data in PWR scenarios. We qualitatively compare the micro-Doppler signatures generated through SimHumalator with the measured real signatures. Here, we present the use of SimHumalator to simulate a set of human actions. We demonstrate that augmenting a measurement database with simulated data, using SimHumalator, results in an 8% improvement in classification accuracy. Our results suggest that simulation data can be used to augment experimental datasets of limited volume to address the cold-start problem typically encountered in radar research. date: 2021-05-17 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: https://ewh.ieee.org/conf/radar/2021/ oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1844644 lyricists_name: Chetty, Kevin lyricists_name: Julier, Simon lyricists_name: Li, Wenda lyricists_name: Vishwakarma, Shelly lyricists_id: KCHET45 lyricists_id: SJULI23 lyricists_id: WLIXX67 lyricists_id: SVISH21 actors_name: Chetty, Kevin actors_id: KCHET45 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf) volume: 2021 place_of_pub: Atlanta, GA, USA event_title: 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf '21) event_location: Atlanta, Georgia. US event_dates: 10 May 2021 - 14 May 2021 institution: IEEE Radar Conference book_title: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf '21) citation: Tang, C; Vishwakarma, S; Li, W; Adve, R; Julier, S; Chetty, K; (2021) Augmenting Experimental Data with Simulations to Improve Activity Classification in Healthcare Monitoring. In: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf '21). IEEE: Atlanta, GA, USA. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120445/1/RadarConf2021_Final_Version.pdf