Intelligent object classication for radar based presence detection 

Our integrated radar enables Edge AI to accurately detect and differentiate humans, animals, and objects from a single sensor in real time

Intelligent object classication for radar based presence detection 

Application overview

Traditional sensing technologies like PIR, UWB, and ToF typically only provide basic presence information. Our radar sensing solutions leverage edge AI to enable advanced sensing capabilities like object classification. Allowing presence detection sensors to identify detected objects like humans, and animals to respond accordingly in real time.

Powered by our low power, cost optimized IWRL6432 radar, engineers can easily enable advanced object classification features to the next generation of presence detection. 

Starting evaluation

Data collection

Capture accurate radar data with the IWRL6432 devices, enabling full AI processing done completely on the edge through the integrated M4F MCU and HWA.

Data quality assessment

Our radar sensors support a wide range of output formats, including range profiles, range-doppler heatmaps, point clouds, and more. For pose estimation, the model leverages object point cloud data to achieve high accuracy performance.

Customers can get started immediately using the sample human vs fan dataset available in the Radar Toolbox. Alternatively, users can train their own point cloud data and experiment with new objects and optimize performance, as detailed in the Human vs Non-Human classification user guide.

Build and train your model

Retraining the human vs. non-human radar model with additional object point cloud data can be performed using the MATLAB Visualizer found in the Radar Toolbox. 


Users can select which features they want to use in the model, the number of radar data frames to consider as input into the model, and even augment data to create larger, more robust datasets.

Deploying your model

Once trained and validated, Radar Toolbox provides an end to end workflow for deploying trained models directly to TI's Radar devices without any other systems needed.

All the hardware, software and resources you’ll need to get started

Hardware

IWRL6432
Single-chip low-power 57-GHz to 64-GHz industrial mmWave radar sensor

Software & development tools

Radar Toolbox for Edge AI
Learn more about how TI’s 60GHz and 77GHz industrial mmWave sensors can measure distance and relative velocities of people or objects.

Supporting resources

Learn more about pose estimation with our radar sensors using edge AI technology

This demo showcases TI mmWave Radar’s reliable classification of outdoor surfaces via radar detection and on-chip ML classifier model.

Additional use cases

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