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Recognizing posture through frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar poses a significant challenge as the human subject is static. Unlike existing radar-based studies, this study proposes a novel framework to extract the postures of two humans in close proximity using FMCW radar point cloud. With radar extracted range, velocity, and angle information, point clouds in the Cartesian domain are retrieved. Afterwards, unsupervised clustering is implemented to segregate the two humans, and finally a deep learning model named DenseNet is applied to classify the postures of both human subjects. Using four base postures (namely, standing, sitting on chair, sitting on floor, and lying down), ten posture combinations for two human scenarios are classified with an average accuracy of 96%. Additionally, using the centroid information of human clusters, an approach to detect and classify overlapping human participants is also introduced. 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