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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.

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 9

Closing the Modality Gap in Zero-Shot HAR: Contrastive Training and Separability-Optimized Prototypes on IMU Data

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) for inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based human activity recognition (HAR) faces a central challenge: bridging the gap between sensor embeddings and semantic class representations. We systematically evaluate seven configurations combining three inference methods with two training pipelines on the PAMAP2 dataset, using 14 seen and 4 unseen activity classes with subjects 108 and 109 held out for testing.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

CIG-MAE: Cross-Modal Information-Guided Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised WiFi Sensing

CIG-MAE is a self‑supervised framework for WiFi‑based human action recognition that uses a cross‑modal masked autoencoder to reconstruct both amplitude and phase of Channel State Information. It introduces an adaptive, information‑guided masking strategy that focuses on high‑density time‑frequency regions and employs a Barlow Twins regularizer to align cross‑modal representations without negative samples. Experiments on three public datasets show that CIG‑MAE outperforms state‑of‑the‑art SSL methods and even surpasses a fully supervised baseline, highlighting its data efficiency, robustness, and generalization.

By Gang Liu, Yanling Hao, Yixuan Zou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

HALO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Language-Aligned IMU Foundation Model for Open-Set Human Activity Recognition

HALO is a heterogeneity‑aware, language‑aligned foundation model for inertial measurement unit (IMU) based human activity recognition. It uses a two‑stage training process: first, a self‑supervised encoder learns to handle diverse sensor configurations and natural‑language sensor descriptions; second, the encoder is aligned with text embeddings through synonym‑aware contrastive learning, enabling open‑set recognition via cosine similarity. Trained on ten public HAR datasets, HALO outperforms five state‑of‑the‑art baselines across eight metrics while using only ~35 M parameters, and improves zero‑shot open‑set accuracy by 13.7 percentage points over 87 training labels.

By Zihan Ding, Liyu Zhang, Xiaomin Ouyang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

BayaHAR: Lightweight Bayesian Few-Shot User Adaptation for On-Device Personalized Human Activity Recognition

BayaHAR is a lightweight, gradient‑free framework that adapts pretrained sensor‑based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) classifiers to new users by converting them into Prototypical Networks with prior prototypes that maintain zero‑shot performance. It introduces closed‑form Bayesian prototype estimation for labeled calibration data and extends this approach to weakly labeled data, requiring only activity labels. With just three seconds of calibration per activity, supervised adaptation boosts test macro‑F1 on unseen users by 2.76–33.44 percentage points across four datasets, while weakly supervised adaptation improves by 0.56–32.13 points, enabling efficient on‑device personalization.

By Maximilian Burzer, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, Tobias R\"oddiger
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Seeing Through WiFi: Lightweight Human Pose Estimation with Dynamic Kernel Attention

arXiv:2607. 03196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WiFi-based human pose estimation (HPE) enables the detection and interpretation of human body positions and movements without the need for wearable devices while preserving individual privacy concerns.

By Toan D. Gian, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Vo Phi Son, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Nguyen Cong Luong, Symeon Chatzinotas