Deep activity recognition in smart buildings with commercial Wi-Fi devices
by Qizhen Zhou; Jianchun Xing; Yuhan Zhang; Qiliang Yang
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (IJSPM), Vol. 15, No. 4, 2020

Abstract: Activity recognition acts as a key enabler of smart building applications, such as behaviour analysis, health diagnosis and user authentication. However, existing methods either require burdensome equipment, or light and line-of-sight (LOS) working conditions. To address this challenge, we propose DeepAR, a device-free human activity recognition system with prevailing Wi-Fi signals, which circumvents the use of dedicated devices. DeepAR mainly exploits two key techniques to recognise human daily activities. Firstly, a novel principle component extraction method is presented to capture the motion-induced distortions and discard the irrelevant interferences. Secondly, deep feature maps are constructed with time and frequency domain characteristics, and a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model is further applied to classify the activity labels. DeepAR is implemented with commercial Wi-Fi devices, and the performance is evaluated through extensive experiments. Experiment results show that DeepAR can achieve an average accuracy of 98.6% in a meeting room and 96.4% in a student office.

Online publication date: Thu, 08-Oct-2020

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