Siyang Cao

The University of Arizona

Journal Papers

  1. S. Hu, S. Cao, N. Toosizadeh, J. Barton, M. Hector, and M. Fain, “mmPose-FK: A Forward Kinematics Approach to Dynamic Skeletal Pose Estimation Using mmWave Radars,” IEEE Sensor Journal. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3348199. (Early Access)

  2. S. Hu, S. Cao, N. Toosizadeh, J. Barton, M. Hector, and M. Fain, “A Survey on Radar-Based Fall Detection," IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. (Accepted)

  3. Q. Wen and S. Cao, “Radar Range–Doppler Flow: A Radar Signal Processing Technique to Enhance Radar Target Classification," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2023.3337757. (Early Access)

  4. A. Sengupta, L. Cheng and S. Cao, “Robust Multi-Object Tracking using mmWave Radar-Camera Sensor Fusion," IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 6, no. 10, 2022.

  5. A. Sengupta and S. Cao, “mmPose-NLP: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Precise Skeletal Pose Estimation using mmWave Radars," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 34, no. 11, 2023.

  6. A. Sengupta, A. Yoshizawa and S. Cao, “Automatic Radar-Camera Dataset Generation for Sensor-Fusion Applications," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2875-2882, 2022.

  7. N. Madsen and S. Cao, “Modifications to Finite Difference Algorithm for Polynomial Phase Signal Parameter Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 496-507, 2022.

  8. F. Jin, A. Sengupta and S. Cao, “mmFall: Fall Detection using 4D MmWave Radar and a Hybrid Variational RNN AutoEncoder," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1245-1257, 2022.

  9. X. Zhang, Z. Chen, R. Bhadani, S. Cao, L. Meng, L. Nicholas, Y. Chen, and L. An, “NISC: Neural Network-Imputation for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and Cell Type Clustering," Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 13, 2022.

  10. A. Sengupta, F. Jin, R. Zhang and S. Cao, “mm-Pose: Real-Time Human Skeletal Posture Estimation using mmWave Radars and CNNs," IEEE Sensor Journal, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. 10032-10044, 2020.

  11. N. Madsen and S. Cao, “Finite Difference Algorithm for Polynomial Phase Signal Parameter Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 57-66, 2020.

  12. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Extending Reliability of mmWave Radar Tracking and Detection via Fusion with Camera," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 137065 - 137079, 2019.

  13. F. Jin and S. Cao, “Automotive Radar Interference Mitigation using Adaptive Noise Canceller," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3747-3754, 2019.

  14. (Best Paper Award) R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Real-time Human Behavior Detection via CNN using mmWave Radar,” IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, 2019.

  15. S. Tang, X. Shu, J. Hu, R. Zhou, S. Shen, and S. Cao, “Study on RSS\AOA hybrid localization in life detection in huge disaster situation,” Springer Natural Hazards, pp. 1-15, 2018.

  16. S. Cao, D. Brendel, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Transform Sensing Array Based on Wavelets,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2408-2423, 2018.

  17. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “3D Imaging Millimeter Wave Circular Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Sensors, vol. 17, no. 6, 2017.

  18. S. Tang, X. Shu, S. Shen, Z. Li, and S. Cao, “Study of Portable Infrastructure-free Cellphone Detector for Disaster Relief,” Natural Hazards, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 453-464, 2017.

  19. S. Ding, S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “From Image Pair to a Computer Generated Hologram for a Real-world Scene,” Applied Optics, vol. 55, no. 27, pp. 7583-7592, 2016.

  20. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “A Wavelet-Packet-Based Radar Waveform for High Resolution in Range and Velocity Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 229-243, 2015.

  21. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Wavelet-Based Waveform for Effective Sidelobe Suppression in Radar Signal,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 265-284, 2014.

  22. S. Cao and Y. F. Zheng, “Recent Developments in Radar Waveforms,” Journal of Radars, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 603-621, October 2014.

Conference Papers

  1. L. Cheng and S. Cao, “Online Targetless RadarCamera Extrinsic Calibration Based on the Common Features of Radar and Camera," in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, August 2023. Accepted

  2. L. Cheng, A. Sengupta and S. Cao, “3D Radar and Camera Co-Calibration: a Flexible and Accurate Method for Target-Based Extrinsic Calibration," in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2023.

  3. Q. Wen and S. Cao, “Quantitative Investigation of Imaging Quality vs. Radar Position Errors in Millimeter-Wave SAR," in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2023.

  4. S. Hu, A. Sengupta and S. Cao, “Stabilizing Skeletal Pose Estimation using mmWave Radar via Dynamic Model and Filtering," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, September 2022.

  5. A. Sengupta, F. Jin and S. Cao, “NLP based Skeletal Pose Estimation using mmWave Radar Point-Cloud: A Simulation Approach," in Proc. IEEE International Radar Conference, September 2020.

  6. A. Sengupta, F. Jin, R. A. Cuevas and S. Cao, “A Review of Recent Advancements Including Machine Learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar using Millimeter-Wave Radar," in Proc. IEEE International Radar Conference, September 2020.

  7. F. Jin, A. Sengupta, S. Cao, and Y. Wu, “MmWave Radar Point Cloud Segmentation using GMM in Multimodal Traffic Monitoring," in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, April 2020.

  8. R. Zhang, and S. Cao, “Robust and Adaptive Radar Elliptical Density-Based Spatial Clustering and Labelling for mmWave Radar Point Cloud Data,” in Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2019.

  9. A. Sengupta, F. Jin and S. Cao, “A DNN-LSTM based Target Tracking Approach using mmWave Radar and Camera Sensor Fusion,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, July 2019.

  10. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Non-Synchronized Integration using Multiple Radars via Least Squares Fitting,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, July 2019.

  11. F. Jin, R. Zhang, A. Sengupta, S. Cao, S. Hariri, N. Agarwal, and S. Agarwal, “Multiple Patients Behavior Detection in Real-time using mmWave Radar and Deep CNNs," in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, April 2019.

  12. X. Zhang and S. Cao, “Soil Moisture Estimation using Automotive Radar,” in Proc. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, July 2018.

  13. N. Madsen and S. Cao, “Slow-time Waveform Design for MIMO,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, April 2018.

  14. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Support Vector Machines for Classification of Automotive Radar Interference,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, April 2018.

  15. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Compressed Sensing for Portable Millimeter Wave 3D Imaging Radar,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2017.

  16. R. Zhang and S. Cao, “Portable Millimeter Wave 3D Imaging Radar,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference. in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2017.

  17. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “From Phase Array to Holographic Radar,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2015.

  18. S. Ding, S. Cao, Y. Li, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Two Viewing Angles for Holographics in Radar and Light,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2015.

  19. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Transform Sensing of Phased Array Radar,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2014.

  20. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Wavelet-based Gaussian Waveform for Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2014.

  21. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “S-band radar Based on Lyrtech Software Defined Radio,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2014.

  22. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “On the Doppler effect to the wavelet-based radar waveform,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, June 2014.

  23. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Transform Sensing of Phased Array Radar,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2014.

  24. A. Sikdar, S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Radar Depth Association with Vision Detected Vehicles on a Highway,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2014.

  25. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “A Wavelet-Packet-Based Radar Waveform for High Resolution in Range and Velocity Detection,” in Proc. IEEE Radar Conference, May 2014.

  26. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Wavelet-based Radar Waveform Adaptable for Different Operation Conditions,” in Proc. IEEE European Radar Conference, October 2013.

  27. S. Cao, Y. F. Zheng, and R. L. Ewing, “Scaling FunctionWaveform for Effective Side-lobe Suppression in Radar Signal,” in Proc. IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, July 2011.