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WiFi technology has been applied to various places due to the increasing requirement of high-speed Internet access. Recently, besides network services, WiFi sensing is appealing in smart homes since it is device-free, cost-effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Qianwen Xu , Lihua Xie

With the increasing need for wireless data transfer, Wi-Fi networks have rapidly grown in recent years providing high throughput and easy deployment. Nowadays, Access Points (APs) can be found easily wherever we go, therefore Wi-Fi sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque , Daniele Pannone

Smartphones have ubiquitously integrated into our home and work environments, however, users normally rely on explicit but inefficient identification processes in a controlled environment. Therefore, when a device is stolen, a thief can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Muhammad Ahmad , Ali Kashif Bashir , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Shahzad Sarfraz

We study six months of human mobility data, including WiFi and GPS traces recorded with high temporal resolution, and find that time series of WiFi scans contain a strong latent location signal. In fact, due to inherent stability and low…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Radu Gatej , Sune Lehmann

Person re-identification(ReID), as a crucial technology in the field of security, plays a vital role in safety inspections, personnel counting, and more. Most current ReID approaches primarily extract features from images, which are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chen Mao , Chong Tan , Jingqi Hu , Min Zheng

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

Wi-Fi sensing can classify human activities because each activity causes unique changes to the channel state information (CSI). Existing WiFi sensing suffers from limited scalability as the system needs to be retrained whenever new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Guolin Yin , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Yingying Chen

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 focus on the problem of human activity recognition without identification of the individuals in a scene. We consider using Wi-Fi signals to detect certain human mobility behaviors such as stationary, walking, or running.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Fang-Jing Wu , Gürkan Solmaz

The fact that almost every person owns a smartphone device that can be precisely located is both empowering and worrying. If methods for accurate tracking of devices (and their owners) via WiFi probing are developed in a responsible way,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Syed Salman Alam , Muhammad Al-Qurishi , Riad Souissi

Recently several ground-breaking RF-based motion recognition systems were proposed to detect and/or recognize macro/micro human movements. These systems often suffer from various interferences caused by multiple-users moving simultaneously,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Ning Xiao , Panlong Yang , Yubo Yan , Hao Zhou , Xiang-Yang Li , Haohua Du

Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can be used for automatically switching off the light, air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fabio Chiarani , Philipp H. Kindt , Graziano Pravadelli

Wi-Fi sensing is an emerging technology that uses channel state information (CSI) from ambient Wi-Fi signals to monitor human activity without the need for dedicated sensors. Wi-Fi sensing does not only represent a pivotal technology in…

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In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the crowd speed using WiFi devices without relying on people to carry any device. Our approach not only enables speed estimation in the region where WiFi links are, but also in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-01 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

WiFi sensing is an important part of the new WiFi 802.11bf standard, which can detect motion and measure distances. In recent years, some machine learning methods have been proposed for human activity recognition from WiFi signals. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hojjat Salehinejad , Navid Hasanzadeh , Radomir Djogo , Shahrokh Valaee

Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has emerged as a plausible modality for sensing different human activities as a function of modulations in the wireless signal that travels between wireless devices. Until now, most research has taken a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Mohammed Alloulah , Anton Isopoussu , Chulhong Min , Fahim Kawsar

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a powerful non-intrusive technology for recognizing human activities, monitoring vital signs, and enabling context-aware applications using commercial wireless devices. However, the performance of Wi-Fi sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Fei Wang , Tingting Zhang , Wei Xi , Han Ding , Ge Wang , Di Zhang , Yuanhao Cui , Fan Liu , Jinsong Han , Jie Xu , Tony Xiao Han

The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is ubiquitously available on commodity WiFi devices but is commonly regarded as too coarse for fine-grained sensing. This paper revisits its sensing potential and presents WiRSSI, a bistatic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Kai Wu , Y. Jay Guo

Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) enables device-free human activity recognition, but existing multi-user approaches assume a fixed set of known users during both training and inference. This closed-set assumption limits deployment, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kemal Bayik , Olayinka Ajayi , Daniel Roggen , Philip Birch

Wireless sensing technologies become increasingly prevalent due to the ubiquitous nature of wireless signals and their inherent privacy-friendly characteristics. Device-free personnel identity recognition, a prevalent application in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Jichen Bian , Chong Tan , Peiyao Tang , Min Zheng