The Breakthrough of Sleep: A Contactless Approach for Accurate Sleep Stage Detection Using the Sleepal AI Lamp

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Main Authors: Diao, Zhuo, Li, Yueting, Wang, Jianpeng, Guan, Shengyu, Wang, Xinwei, Cui, Wenxiong, Shi, Xin, Liu, Tong, Sun, Kailai, Wang, Jingyu, Fan, Dian, Penzel, Thomas
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author Diao, Zhuo
Li, Yueting
Wang, Jianpeng
Guan, Shengyu
Wang, Xinwei
Cui, Wenxiong
Shi, Xin
Liu, Tong
Sun, Kailai
Wang, Jingyu
Fan, Dian
Penzel, Thomas
author_facet Diao, Zhuo
Li, Yueting
Wang, Jianpeng
Guan, Shengyu
Wang, Xinwei
Cui, Wenxiong
Shi, Xin
Liu, Tong
Sun, Kailai
Wang, Jingyu
Fan, Dian
Penzel, Thomas
contents Sleep staging is essential for the assessment of sleep quality and the diagnosis of sleep-related disorders. Conventional polysomnography (PSG), while considered the gold standard, is intrusive, labor-intensive, and unsuitable for long-term monitoring. This study evaluates the performance of the Sleepal AI Lamp, a contactless, radar-based consumer-grade sleep tracker, in comparison with gold-standard polysomnography (PSG), using a large-scale dataset comprising 1022 overnight recordings. We extract multi-scale respiratory and motion-related features from radar signals to train a frequency-augmented deep learning model. For the binary sleep-wake classification task, experimental results demonstrated that the model achieved an accuracy of 92.8% alongside a macro-averaged F1 score of 0.895. For four-stage classification (wake, light NREM (N1 + N2), deep NREM (N3), REM), the model achieved an accuracy of 78.5% with a Cohen's kappa coefficient of 0.695 in healthy individuals and maintained a stable accuracy of 77.2% with a kappa of 0.677 in a heterogeneous population including patients with varying severities of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). These experimental results demonstrate that the sleep staging performance of the contactless Sleepal AI Lamp is in high agreement with expert-labeled PSG sleep stages. Our findings suggest that non-contact radar sensing, combined with advanced temporal modeling, can provide reliable sleep staging performance without requiring physical contact or wearable devices. Owing to its unobtrusive nature, ease of deployment, and robustness to long-term use, the contactless Sleepal AI Lamp shows strong potential for clinical screening, home-based sleep assessment, and continuous longitudinal sleep monitoring in real-world medical and healthcare applications.
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spellingShingle The Breakthrough of Sleep: A Contactless Approach for Accurate Sleep Stage Detection Using the Sleepal AI Lamp
Diao, Zhuo
Li, Yueting
Wang, Jianpeng
Guan, Shengyu
Wang, Xinwei
Cui, Wenxiong
Shi, Xin
Liu, Tong
Sun, Kailai
Wang, Jingyu
Fan, Dian
Penzel, Thomas
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Sleep staging is essential for the assessment of sleep quality and the diagnosis of sleep-related disorders. Conventional polysomnography (PSG), while considered the gold standard, is intrusive, labor-intensive, and unsuitable for long-term monitoring. This study evaluates the performance of the Sleepal AI Lamp, a contactless, radar-based consumer-grade sleep tracker, in comparison with gold-standard polysomnography (PSG), using a large-scale dataset comprising 1022 overnight recordings. We extract multi-scale respiratory and motion-related features from radar signals to train a frequency-augmented deep learning model. For the binary sleep-wake classification task, experimental results demonstrated that the model achieved an accuracy of 92.8% alongside a macro-averaged F1 score of 0.895. For four-stage classification (wake, light NREM (N1 + N2), deep NREM (N3), REM), the model achieved an accuracy of 78.5% with a Cohen's kappa coefficient of 0.695 in healthy individuals and maintained a stable accuracy of 77.2% with a kappa of 0.677 in a heterogeneous population including patients with varying severities of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). These experimental results demonstrate that the sleep staging performance of the contactless Sleepal AI Lamp is in high agreement with expert-labeled PSG sleep stages. Our findings suggest that non-contact radar sensing, combined with advanced temporal modeling, can provide reliable sleep staging performance without requiring physical contact or wearable devices. Owing to its unobtrusive nature, ease of deployment, and robustness to long-term use, the contactless Sleepal AI Lamp shows strong potential for clinical screening, home-based sleep assessment, and continuous longitudinal sleep monitoring in real-world medical and healthcare applications.
title The Breakthrough of Sleep: A Contactless Approach for Accurate Sleep Stage Detection Using the Sleepal AI Lamp
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16442