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WiFi2Radar: Orientation-Independent Single-Receiver WiFi Sensing via WiFi to Radar Translation
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Internet of Things Journal IEEE Internet Things J. Internet of Things Journal, IEEE. 11(9):15750-15766 May, 2024
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Wireless fidelity
Doppler effect
Receivers
Radar
Sensors
Doppler radar
Radar measurements
Device free
Doppler
orientation independent
WiFi sensing
Language
ISSN
2327-4662
2372-2541
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%.