MIT's Artificial Intelligence System Can Detect People's Postures, Movements Through Walls

The ability to see what's happening on the other side of a wall or in another room has always been an aspect of science fiction. We don't have a technology good enough to see directly through walls, but thanks to the power of machine intelligence, a group of researchers at MIT, Massachusetts, is inching closer to turn that case into reality. The team at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is working on a project called RF-Pose. As part of this effort, they are using an AI-based system to sense the movement or posture of a person on the other side of a wall. Essentially, as a person moves, walks, sits, jumps, or stops behind a wall, the neural network analyzes the radio signals bouncing off his/her body and generates confidence map using it.