Wave-CapNet: A Wavelet Neuron-Based Wi-Fi Sensing Model for Human Identification

Abstract

Gait is regarded as a unique feature for identifying people, and gait recognition is the basis of various customized services of the IoT. Unlike traditional techniques for identifying people, the Wi-Fi-based technique is unconstrained by illumination conditions and such that it eliminates the need for dense, specialized sensors and wearable devices. Although deep learning-based sensing models are conducive to the development of Wi-Fi-based identification, the latter technique relies on a large amount of data and requires a long training time, where this limits the scope of its use for identifying people. In this study, we propose a Wi-Fi sensing model called Wave-CapNet for human identification. We use data processing to eliminate errors in the raw data so that the model can extract the characteristics in channel state information (CSI). We also design a dedicated adaptive wavelet neural network to extract representative features from Wi-Fi signals with only a few epochs of training and a small number of parameters. Experiments show that it can identify human gait with an average accuracy of 99%. Moreover, it can achieve an average accuracy of 95% by using only 10% of the data and fewer than five epochs, and outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.