SBRF: A Fine-Grained Radar Signal Generator for Human Sensing

Jiamu Li, Dongheng Zhang, Zhi Wu, Cong Yu, Yadong Li, Qi Chen, Yang Hu, Qibin Sun, Yan Chen

Abstract: While deep learning-based RF perception has received significant attention in recent years, the requirement for massive labeled RF data has hindered its further advancement. Despite existing efforts in synthesizing signals, they fail to accurately calculate the Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the target, leading to less practicality of the synthesized signals. In this paper, we introduce Simulated Body Radio Frequency (SBRF), a novel signal synthesis framework for calculating more realistic RCS by combining ray tracing with electromagnetic computation. SBRF involves three key components: a grid-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm to calculate fine-grained human body RCS, a novel ray partitioning algorithm to improve the efficiency of ray tracing, and a coordinate transformation method to sense moving targets. Furthermore, we also design unique data augmentation techniques to improve the efficiency and generalizability of signal synthesis. Extensive experimental evaluations conducted on two publicly available datasets, involving wide-scale activity recognition and fine-grained gesture recognition, demonstrate the effectiveness of SBRF-generated signals in improving RF perception performance and alleviating the challenge of RF data collection.