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WiFi2Radar: Orientation-Independent Single-Receiver WiFi Sensing via WiFi to Radar Translation


Abstract:

Recent research has demonstrated the huge potential of WiFi for contactless sensing of human activities. Unfortunately, such sensing is highly sensitive to the relative o...Show More

Abstract:

Recent research has demonstrated the huge potential of WiFi for contactless sensing of human activities. Unfortunately, such sensing is highly sensitive to the relative orientation between the user and the WiFi receivers. To overcome this problem, existing solutions deploy multiple WiFi receivers at precise positions to capture orientation-independent view of the human activity. Orientation-independent single-receiver WiFi sensing is still considered an open problem. In this article, we propose a deep neural network architecture that uses radar data during training to learn high-precision Doppler features of human activities from the noisy channel states observed by a single WiFi receiver. Once trained with radars, the network can be used to detect human activities at any arbitrary orientations based only on WiFi signals. Using extensive experiments with millimeter-wave radars, we demonstrate that the proposed approach, called WiFi2Radar in this article, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art for detecting human activities in untrained orientations using only a single WiFi receiver. Our results show that WiFi2Radar can detect orientation-independent human activities with up to 91% accuracy, which outperforms the state of the art by 19%.
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal ( Volume: 11, Issue: 9, 01 May 2024)
Page(s): 15750 - 15766
Date of Publication: 03 January 2024

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