Separation algorithm of vital sign signal in complex environments based on time-frequency filtering

Abstract

Life detection radar that combines radar technology with biomedical engineering detects human physiological signals (respiration, heartbeat, body movement, etc.) from a long distance with non-contact method. In this field, vital sign detection and parameter extraction are hot issues in current researches, and the acquisition of vital sign signal of human target with radar may very helpful. In this paper, a separation method for vital sign signals based on time-frequency filtering (TFF) is proposed, which mainly predicts the instantaneous frequency (IF) by combining the Viterbi algorithm (VA) with strong noise immunity and taking advantage of the high-resolution time-frequency transformation method with good cross-term inhibitory effect in B distribution (BD), so as to extract the weak vital sign signals in the radar echo effectively. According to the simulation result, this algorithm has good resolution precision and anti-noise performance, and it is applicable for the extraction of vital sign signals in low signal-to-noise ratio, which may provide basis for the further launch of parameter extraction of the vital sign signals.