arXiv Machine Learning

From User Recognition to Activity Counting: An Identity-Agnostic Approach to Multi-User WiFi Sensing

The paper proposes an identity‑agnostic approach to multi‑user WiFi sensing that reframes activity recognition as counting how many users perform each activity, rather than assigning actions to specific individuals. Using WiMANS data, the identity‑agnostic counting model outperforms identity‑dependent predictions on integer‑count mean absolute error across all tested environments, and remains robust when users are unseen. Embedding analysis shows that identity‑agnostic representations cluster by activity composition instead of user identity, supporting the claim that counting is a more accurate and robust scene‑level estimation method.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

Beyond Gait: Person Identification from Millimeter-Wave Point Clouds Across Activities of Daily Living

The paper explores person identification using millimeter‑wave point clouds beyond traditional gait analysis, focusing on seven activities of daily living (ADLs). It introduces the mm‑ADL dataset of 11 subjects and proposes an activity‑conditioned framework that routes each clip to an activity‑specific identity expert via a supervised mixture of experts. Experiments show that hard routing improves closed‑set ID accuracy from 62.1% to 68.0% and significantly boosts re‑identification metrics, demonstrating the benefit of activity context under controlled indoor conditions.

arXiv AI
Jul 31

Zero-Fi: Zero-Shot Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition via Contrastive Signal-Language Alignment

arXiv:2607. 26381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition has advanced substantially, but most existing methods assume a closed set of activities and require labeled Wi-Fi samples for every target class, limiting their ability to recognize unseen activities.

By Yitong Shen, Cheng Guo, Peiliang Wang, Jingzhe Zhang, Yi Sheng, Haopeng Zhang, Hongfei Xue, Yili Ren
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Domain Generalization for Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Systematic Analysis of Components and Interactions

The paper presents a comprehensive benchmark for Domain Generalization (DG) in smartphone-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), running over 410,000 experiments across multiple architectures, training objectives, initialization strategies, and architectural tweaks. It finds that individual DG components offer limited, highly conditional improvements, while combined configurations often yield stronger, sometimes super‑additive gains that depend on the model and shift scenario. The study also highlights that current source‑validation selection captures only a fraction of the potential oracle performance, underscoring the need for joint DG design and robust model‑selection methods.

By Ot\'avio Oliveira Napoli, Edson Borin
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Zero-Fi: Zero-Shot Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition via Contrastive Signal-Language Alignment

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition has advanced substantially, but most existing methods assume a closed set of activities and require labeled Wi-Fi samples for every target class, limiting their ability to recognize unseen activities. We present Zero-Fi, a contrastive signal-language alignment framework for zero-shot Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition

arXiv:2607. 03089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HAR is increasingly expected to run continuously on edge devices, yet recent LLM-based methods remain hard to deploy: raw sensor prompts are long, cloud inference adds latency and privacy risk, and fine-tuned LLM pipelines turn general-purpose models into task-specific classifiers.

By Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Albert Zomaya, Kanchana Thilakarathna
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Coverage-Aware Virtual IMU Augmentation for Low-Resource Human Activity Recognition

The paper introduces a coverage-aware virtual IMU augmentation framework for human activity recognition. It selects diverse and scarce data points in a learned sensor embedding space, generates virtual IMU samples as prompts, ranks them by proximity and label consistency, and incorporates them into training with reliability-based weights. Experiments on public benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance gains over existing baselines, with ablation studies confirming the framework’s effectiveness.

By Jiayuan Gao, Yingwei Zhang, Ziyao Tang, Yuejia Ma, Yuanzhe Chen, Shuchao Song, Boshi Tang