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most citedMulti-Person Continuous Tracking and Identification from mm-Wave micro-Doppler Signatures

123 citations · 277 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

eess.SP2026

Reliable Doppler Estimation in Asynchronous Moving ISAC Devices via IMU Integration

Zaman Bhalli, Jacopo Pegoraro, Gianmaria Ventura +2

We present an Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) framework for the joint estimation of the Doppler frequency of a passive mobile target in a bistatic scenario with clock-a…

eess.SP2026

Beyond Point Targets: Experimental Analysis of Frequency Anisotropy for Multi-band ISAC in FR3

Jacopo Pegoraro, Andrea Bedin, Dario Tagliaferri +1

As Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) systems push toward higher sensing resolution, multi-band processing has emerged as a key enabler, with Frequency Range 3 (FR3) (7-24…

eess.SP2026

Zero-Overhead Unambiguous Velocity Estimation in Multiband ISAC Systems Under Random Traffic

Aurora Peloso, Michele Rossi, Jacopo Pegoraro

This paper proposes an original method for estimating the velocity of a target by leveraging the multiband capabilities of modern Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) system…

cs.NE2026

Sparse Spike Encoding of Channel Responses for Energy Efficient Human Activity Recognition

Eleonora Cicciarella, Riccardo Mazzieri, Jacopo Pegoraro +1

ISAC enables pervasive monitoring, but modern sensing algorithms are often too complex for energy-constrained edge devices. This motivates the development of learning techniques th…

eess.SP2026

Compressed Sensing-Driven Near-Field Localization Exploiting Array of Subarrays

Sai Pavan Deram, Jacopo Pegoraro, Javier Lorca Hernando +2

Near-field localization for ISAC requires large-aperture arrays, making fully-digital implementations prohibitively complex and costly. While sparse subarray architectures can redu…

eess.SP2025

Toward Multiband Sensing in FR3: Frequency Anisotropy Characterization and Non-Contiguous Bands Aggregation Algorithms

Jacopo Pegoraro, Gianmaria Ventura, Dario Tagliaferri +4

Frequency Range 3 (FR3) in the 7-24 GHz band will be the new spectrum for 6G wireless networks. The bandwidth availability and diversity of FR3 offer unprecedented opportunities fo…

cs.NE2025

Spatiotemporal Radar Gesture Recognition with Hybrid Spiking Neural Networks: Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency

Riccardo Mazzieri, Eleonora Cicciarella, Jacopo Pegoraro +2

Radar-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) offers privacy and robustness over camera-based methods, yet remains computationally demanding for edge deployment. We present the firs…

cs.NE2025★ 1 cited

LightSNN: Lightweight Architecture Search for Sparse and Accurate Spiking Neural Networks

Yesmine Abdennadher, Giovanni Perin, Riccardo Mazzieri +2

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly regarded for their energy efficiency, inherent activation sparsity, and suitability for real-time processing in edge devices. However, mos…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Open-Set Gait Recognition from Sparse mmWave Radar Point Clouds

Riccardo Mazzieri, Jacopo Pegoraro, Michele Rossi

The adoption of Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) radar devices for human sensing, particularly gait recognition, has recently gathered significant attention due to their efficiency, resili…

eess.SP2025

Hierarchical Coherent Imaging of Composite Anisotropic Moving Targets in ISAC

Jacopo Pegoraro, Dario Tagliaferri, Joerg Widmer

In Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) networks, distributed devices can cooperate to produce radio images of the surrounding environment by exploiting phase-coherent signa…

eess.SP2024

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Enhance Channel Sampling Patterns in Integrated Sensing and Communication

Federico Mason, Jacopo Pegoraro

In Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) systems, estimating the micro-Doppler (mD) spectrogram of a target requires combining channel estimates retrieved from communication…

eess.SP2024

AsyMov: Integrated Sensing and Communications with Asynchronous Moving Devices

Gianmaria Ventura, Michele Rossi, Jacopo Pegoraro

Estimating the Doppler frequency shift caused by moving targets is one of the key objectives of Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) systems, as it enables applications such…

eess.SP2024★ 11 cited

HiSAC: High-Resolution Sensing with Multiband Communication Signals

Jacopo Pegoraro, Jesus O. Lacruz, Michele Rossi +1

Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC ) systems are expected to perform accurate radar sensing while having minimal impact on communication. Ideally, sensing should only reuse…

eess.SP2024

Bistatic Doppler Frequency Estimation with Asynchronous Moving Devices for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Gianmaria Ventura, Zaman Bhalli, Michele Rossi +1

In this letter, we present for the first time a method to estimate the bistatic Doppler frequency of a target with clock asynchronous and mobile Integrated Sensing And Communicatio…

eess.SP2024★ 2 cited

Sensing in Bi-Static ISAC Systems with Clock Asynchronism: A Signal Processing Perspective

Kai Wu, Jacopo Pegoraro, Francesca Meneghello +9

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has been identified as a pillar usage scenario for the impending 6G era. Bi-static sensing, a major type of sensing in ISAC, is promisin…

eess.SP2024

Learned Spike Encoding of the Channel Response for Low-Power Environment Sensing

Eleonora Cicciarella, Riccardo Mazzieri, Jacopo Pegoraro +1

Radio Frequency (RF) sensing holds the potential for enabling pervasive monitoring applications. However, modern sensing algorithms imply complex operations, which clash with the e…

eess.SP2023

An Experimental Prototype for Multistatic Asynchronous ISAC

Marco Canil, Jacopo Pegoraro, Jesus O. Lacruz +4

We prototype and validate a multistatic mmWave ISAC system based on IEEE802.11ay. Compensation of the clock asynchrony between each TX and RX pair is performed using the sole LoS w…

eess.SP2023

Attention-Refined Unrolling for Sparse Sequential micro-Doppler Reconstruction

Riccardo Mazzieri, Jacopo Pegoraro, Michele Rossi

The reconstruction of micro-Doppler signatures of human movements is a key enabler for fine-grained activity recognition wireless sensing. In Joint Communication and Sensing (JCS)…

eess.SP2023★ 2 cited

DISC: a Dataset for Integrated Sensing and Communication in mmWave Systems

Jacopo Pegoraro, Pablo Saucedo, Jesus Omar Lacruz +2

This paper presents DISC, a dataset of millimeter-wave channel impulse response measurements for integrated human activity sensing and communication. This is the first dataset coll…

eess.SP2023★ 54 cited

JUMP: Joint communication and sensing with Unsynchronized transceivers Made Practical

Jacopo Pegoraro, Jesus O. Lacruz, Tommy Azzino +4

Wideband millimeter-wave communication systems can be extended to provide radar-like sensing capabilities on top of data communication, in a cost-effective manner. However, the dev…

eess.SY2022

ORACLE: Occlusion-Resilient and Self-Calibrating mmWave Radar Network for People Tracking

Marco Canil, Jacopo Pegoraro, Anish Shastri +2

Millimeter wave (mmWave) radar sensors are emerging as valid alternatives to cameras for the pervasive contactless monitoring of people in indoor spaces. However, commercial mmWave…

eess.SP2022

Human Tracking with mmWave Radars: a Deep Learning Approach with Uncertainty Estimation

Jacopo Pegoraro, Michele Rossi

mmWave radars have recently gathered significant attention as a means to track human movement within indoor environments. Widely adopted Kalman filter tracking methods experience p…

eess.SP2022★ 30 cited

SPARCS: A Sparse Recovery Approach for Integrated Communication and Human Sensing in mmWave Systems

Jacopo Pegoraro, Jesus Omar Lacruz, Michele Rossi +1

A well established method to detect and classify human movements using Millimeter-Wave ( mmWave) devices is the time-frequency analysis of the small-scale Doppler effect (termed mi…

eess.SP2021★ 19 cited

MilliTRACE-IR: Contact Tracing and Temperature Screening via mm-Wave and Infrared Sensing

Marco Canil, Jacopo Pegoraro, Michele Rossi

Social distancing and temperature screening have been widely employed to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking great interest from academia, industry and public administration…