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LoEar: push the range limit of acoustic sensing for vital sign monitoring

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Acoustic sensing has been explored in numerous applications leveraging the wide deployment of acoustic-enabled devices. However, most of the existing acoustic sensing systems work in a very short range only due to fast attenuation of ultrasonic signals, hindering their real-world deployment. In this paper, we present a novel acoustic sensing system using only a single microphone and speaker, named LoEar, to detect vital signs (respiration and heartbeat) with a significantly increased sensing range. We first develop a model, namely Carrierforming, to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) via coherent superposition across multiple subcarriers on the target path. We then propose a novel technique called Continuous-MUSIC (Continuous-MUltiple SIgnal Classification) to detect a dynamic reflections, containing subtle motion, and further identify the target user based on the frequency distribution to enable Carrierforming. Finally, we adopt an adaptive Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) comb notch filter to recover the heartbeat pattern from the Channel Frequency Response (CFR) measurements which are dominated by respiration and further develop a peak-based scheme to estimate respiration rate and heart rate. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate our system, and results show that our system outperforms the state-of-the-art using commercial devices, i.e., the range of respiration sensing is increased from 2 m to 7 m, and the range of heartbeat sensing is increased from 1.2 m to 6.5 m. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools.
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hal-03959876 , version 1 (08-02-2024)

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Lei Wang, Wei Li, Ke Sun, Fusang Zhang, Tao Gu, et al.. LoEar: push the range limit of acoustic sensing for vital sign monitoring. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies , 2022, 6 (3), pp.1 - 24. ⟨10.1145/3550293⟩. ⟨hal-03959876⟩
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