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The existing multi-target detection method based on UWB radar echo signals has low accuracy and has difficulty extracting breathing and heartbeat information at the same time. Therefore, this paper proposes a new multi-target localization and vital sign detection method using ultra-wide band radar. A target recognition and localization method based on permutation entropy (PE) and K means++ clustering is proposed to determine the number and position of targets in the environment. An adaptive denoising method for vital sign extraction based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and wavelet analysis (WA) is proposed to reconstruct the breathing and heartbeat signals of human targets. A heartbeat frequency extraction method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and stochastic resonance (SR) is proposed to detect the heartbeat frequency of human targets. Experimental results show that the PE\u2014K means++ method can successfully recognize and locate multiple human targets in the environment, and its average relative error is 1.83%. Using the EEMD\u2013WA method can effectively filter the clutter signal, and the average relative error of the reconstructed respiratory signal frequency is 4.27%. The average relative error of heartbeat frequency detected by the PSO\u2013SR method was 6.23%. The multi-target localization and vital sign detection method proposed in this paper can effectively recognize all human targets in the multi-target scene and provide their accurate location and vital signs information. This provides a theoretical basis for the technical system of emergency rescue and technical support for post-disaster rescue.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23135779","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,21]],"date-time":"2023-06-21T02:30:51Z","timestamp":1687314651000},"page":"5779","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["A Multi-Target Localization and Vital Sign Detection Method Using Ultra-Wide Band Radar"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingjie","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Huifeng","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lifeng","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1899-0885","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siyun","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinlei","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Research Institute, Chinese Institute of Coal Science CICS, Beijing 100013, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Siddiqui, H.U.R., Saleem, A.A., Bashir, I., Zafar, K., Rustam, F., Diez, I.D.L.T., Dudley, S., and Ashraf, I. 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