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Device-free Human Activity Recognition using CSI

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CSAR '15: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context Sensing and Activity Recognition

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2820716.2820727

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Activity recognition is an important component of pervasive computing applications. Device-free activity recognition has the advantage that it does not have the privacy concern of using cameras and the subjects do not have to carry a device on them. Recently, it has been shown that channel state information (CSI) can be used for device-free activity recognition. Their key limitation lies in the lack of universality. In this paper, we propose ARM, a wireless human Activity Recognition and Monitoring system. ARM investigate the correlation between CSI phase variation and human activity. We present an efficient carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation algorithm for Wi-Fi devices and introduce Haar wavelet function to eliminate the noises. After these preprocessing, ARM uses the correlation as the profiling mechanism and recognizes a given activity by profile matching. We implemented ARM using both commercial Wi-Fi devices and USRP to evaluate it in different environments. Our result- s show that ARM achieves an average accuracy of greater than 75%.

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CSAR '15: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context Sensing and Activity Recognition

November 2015

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ISBN:9781450338424

DOI:10.1145/2820716

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Yanyong Zhang
Rutgers University, USA
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Mo Li
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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PLAUST, China
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University of Kentucky
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Jinsong Han
Xi'an Jiangtong University, China

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