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Elderly care is one of the many applications supported by real-time activity recognition systems. Traditional approaches use cameras, body sensor networks, or radio patterns from various sources for activity recognition. However, these…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Liang Wang , Tao Gu , Xianping Tao , Jian Lu

The potential of Wi-Fi backscatter communications systems is immense, yet challenges such as signal instability and energy constraints impose performance limits. This paper introduces FlexScatter, a Wi-Fi backscatter system using a designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xin He , Jingwen Xie , Aohua Zhang , Weiwei Jiang , Yujun Zhu , Tad Matsumoto

This paper introduces a Wi-Fi signal based passive wireless sensing system that has the capability to detect diverse indoor human movements, from whole body motions to limb movements and including breathing movements of the chest. The real…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Bo Tan , Alison Burrows , Robert Piechocki , Ian Craddock , Karl Woodbridge , Kevin Chetty

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a versatile tool for tasks such as localization, gesture recognition, and vital-sign monitoring, enabling applications from smart environments to personalized healthcare. However, sensing accuracy often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Fabian Portner , Francesco Gringoli , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

This paper presents a novel multiband passive sensing system that leverages IEEE 802.11bf Wi-Fi signals for environmental sensing, focusing on both sub-7 GHz and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. By combining Channel State Information (CSI)…

Wi-Fi sensing has become an attractive option for non-invasive monitoring of human activities and vital signs. This paper explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for Wi-Fi sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

We demonstrated a simple technique for monitoring range variation with millimeter-precision between two remote sites using off-the-shelf wireless communication modules. The need for the flexible positioning of wireless devices is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Bhola R. Panta , Kohta Kido , Satoshi Yasuda , Yuko Hanado , Seiji Kawamura , Hiroshi Hanado , Kenichi Takizawa , Masugi Inoue , Nobuyasu Shiga

While Wi-Fi sensing offers a compelling, privacy-preserving alternative to cameras, its practical utility has been fundamentally undermined by a lack of robustness across domains. Models trained in one setup fail to generalize to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Cheng Jiang , Yihe Yan , Yanxiang Wang , Chun Tung Chou , Wen Hu

In this paper, we propose BeamSense, a completely novel approach to implement standard-compliant Wi-Fi sensing applications. Wi-Fi sensing enables game-changing applications in remote healthcare, home entertainment, and home surveillance,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Khandaker Foysal Haque , Milin Zhang , Francesca Meneghello , Francesco Restuccia

Radio-Frequency (RF) based device-free Human Activity Recognition (HAR) rises as a promising solution for many applications. However, device-free (or contactless) sensing is often more sensitive to environment changes than device-based (or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Shuya Ding , Zhe Chen , Tianyue Zheng , Jun Luo

WiFi-based home monitoring has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional camera- and sensor-based solutions, offering wide coverage with minimal intrusion by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. This paper presents key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Chenshu Wu , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

WiFi sensing technology has shown superiority in smart homes among various sensors for its cost-effective and privacy-preserving merits. It is empowered by Channel State Information (CSI) extracted from WiFi signals and advanced machine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Lihua Xie

This paper proposes to leverage intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter to realize radio-frequency-chain-free uplink-transmissions (RFCF-UT). In this communication paradigm, IRS works as an information carrier, whose elements are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Jiliang Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Jie Zhang

Wi-Fi sensing is gaining momentum as a non-intrusive and privacy-preserving alternative to vision-based systems for human identification. However, person identification through wireless signals, particularly without user motion, remains…

Wireless charging pads are common, yet their functionality is mainly restricted to charging. Existing gesture recognition techniques, such as those based on machine vision and WiFi, have drawbacks like high costs and poor precision. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Bojun Zhang

Radio-Frequency (RF)-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) rises as a promising solution for applications unamenable to techniques requiring computer visions. However, the scarcity of labeled RF data due to their non-interpretable nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuxuan Weng , Guoquan Wu , Tianyue Zheng , Yanbing Yang , Jun Luo

There is growing concern about how personal data are used when users grant applications direct access to the sensors of their mobile devices. In fact, high resolution temporal data generated by motion sensors reflect directly the activities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Tong Xin , Bin Guo , Zhu Wang , Mingyang Li , Zhiwen Yu

Ambient computing is gaining popularity as a major technological advancement for the future. The modern era has witnessed a surge in the advancement in healthcare systems, with viable radio frequency solutions proposed for remote and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Muhammad Zakir Khan , Jawad Ahmad , Wadii Boulila , Matthew Broadbent , Syed Aziz Shah , Anis Koubaa , Qammer H. Abbasi