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A semi-supervised deep residual network for mode detection in Wi-Fi signals

Machine Learning 2019-02-19 v1 Computers and Society Machine Learning

Abstract

Due to their ubiquitous and pervasive nature, Wi-Fi networks have the potential to collect large-scale, low-cost, and disaggregate data on multimodal transportation. In this study, we develop a semi-supervised deep residual network (ResNet) framework to utilize Wi-Fi communications obtained from smartphones for the purpose of transportation mode detection. This framework is evaluated on data collected by Wi-Fi sensors located in a congested urban area in downtown Toronto. To tackle the intrinsic difficulties and costs associated with labelled data collection, we utilize ample amount of easily collected low-cost unlabelled data by implementing the semi-supervised part of the framework. By incorporating a ResNet architecture as the core of the framework, we take advantage of the high-level features not considered in the traditional machine learning frameworks. The proposed framework shows a promising performance on the collected data, with a prediction accuracy of 81.8% for walking, 82.5% for biking and 86.0% for the driving mode.

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@article{arxiv.1902.06284,
  title  = {A semi-supervised deep residual network for mode detection in Wi-Fi signals},
  author = {Arash Kalatian and Bilal Farooq},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06284},
  year   = {2019}
}
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