FuseRes: Robust In-Bed Respiration Monitoring System via Multimodal Fusion of Millimeter-Wave Radar and Wi-Fi Signals

Noncontact vital sign sensing has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Millimeter-wave radar-based respiration sensing provides high accuracy but suffers from a limited field of view and strong dependence on target position and orientation, which restricts its practical deployment. In contrast, Wi-Fi-based sensing provides wide coverage and great resilience over device setup, yet its respiration estimation accuracy under ideal conditions is generally inferior to that of millimeter-wave radar. Consequently, the robustness of single-modal approaches in practical scenarios remains limited due to the inherent drawbacks of each system. This article presents a fusion-based respiration monitoring system that integrates millimeter-wave radar and Wi-Fi signals. By jointly exploiting the high precision of millimeter-wave radar and the wide-area sensing capability of Wi-Fi, robust respiration monitoring is achieved in practical bedroom environments. To effectively utilize heterogeneous signals, a fusion decision scheme is designed to adaptively determine the necessity of signal fusion. Furthermore, a multimodal signal fusion method based on multivariate signal processing is proposed to jointly extract the common respiration components shared across different modalities. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system, FuseRes, can robustly and accurately estimate respiration in complex real-world scenarios, supporting stable noncontact vital sign monitoring and facilitating practical deployment.