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It can also be used to estimate the number of people in a room based on the waveform of the channel impulse response (CIR) from UWB transceivers. In this paper, we apply deep neural networks to UWB CIR signals for the purpose of estimating the number of people in a room. We especially focus on empirically investigating the various network architectures for classification from single UWB CIR data, as well as from various ensemble configurations. We present our processes for acquiring and preprocessing CIR data, our designs of the different network architectures and ensembles that were applied, and the comparative experimental evaluations. 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