Activity recognition and user identification using mmWave radar with a shared-backbone graph network and task-specific heads
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Identity-aware activity recognition is a key enabler for customized services. However, joint modeling of activity recognition and user identification from wireless signals remains underexplored. This work presents a dual-task graph model for millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar point-cloud sequences. We construct directed graphs that capture a user’s spatial structure and motion over time. A shared graph neural backbone processes these graphs and produces node embeddings that encode local spatial features and short-term dynamics. Each task-specific head first aggregates node embeddings into a graph-level representation and then performs activity or identity classification. Experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves classification performance comparable to single-task baselines for both activity recognition and user identification while maintaining low-latency inference. Codes are available at https://github.com/junyongeom/mmActId/ .
Source: ICT Express
Authors: Jun Yong Eom, Daewon Seo
Institution: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,500
Award: G3889288428
OpenAlex ID: W7127908111