Presentation 2023-01-19
[Short Paper] A Study on Improving the Robustness of Wi-Fi Sensing against Environmental Change
Sorachi Kato, Tomoki Murakami, Takuya Fujihashi, Takashi Watanabe, Shunsuke Saruwatari,
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Abstract(in English) There is research on invasive sensing of objects using Channel State Information (CSI), which represents the propagation state of Wi-Fi radio waves. Neural networks are used to analyze CSI fluctuations, and have been shown to achieve high sensing accuracy in the fields of location estimation and activity recognition. On the other hand, there is a problem that sensing accuracy is significantly degraded when a new CSI acquired at a different time and environment from the one used for training. Re-training or transfer learning is necessary to adapt the model to the new environment, but in some practical applications, only a small amount of data from the new environment can be obtained, or sometimes none at all, due to the highly specialized methods used to collect label data for training. In this paper, we propose a method for respiratory rate estimation that transforms CSI features in different environments into a single domain, thereby guaranteeing sensing accuracy without label data in those environments. The method has a domain adaptation module that transforms CSI features acquired in different environments into a single domain based on the idea of style transformation in the image processing field. The method also uses Template of CSI and respiration sensor data, which are pre-obtained to include information on respiration at various frequencies. By adapting Template CSI to the characteristics of CSI in different environments and combining it with Template respiration sensor data to train a convolutional neural network (CNN), it is possible to train models that adapt to different environments using only unlabeled CSI in different environments. This paper shows that the mean absolute percentage error of the proposed method is reduced by about 20% compared to the case without domain adaptation.
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Keyword(in English) IEEE 802.11 / Wireless Sensing / Domain Adaptation / Vital Sensing / Wi-Fi
Paper # SeMI2022-82
Date of Issue 2023-01-12 (SeMI)

Conference Information
Committee SeMI
Conference Date 2023/1/19(2days)
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Place (in English) Naruto grand hotel
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Chair Koji Yamamoto(Kyoto Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuya Monden(Hitachi) / Yasunori Owada(NICT) / Shunsuke Saruwatari(Osaka Univ.)
Secretary Kazuya Monden(NTT DOCOMO) / Yasunori Owada(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.) / Shunsuke Saruwatari(Osaka Univ.)
Assistant Yuki Matsuda(NAIST) / Akihito Taya(Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) / Takeshi Hirai(Osaka Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence
Language JPN
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Title (in English) [Short Paper] A Study on Improving the Robustness of Wi-Fi Sensing against Environmental Change
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) IEEE 802.11
Keyword(2) Wireless Sensing
Keyword(3) Domain Adaptation
Keyword(4) Vital Sensing
Keyword(5) Wi-Fi
1st Author's Name Sorachi Kato
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(OU)
2nd Author's Name Tomoki Murakami
2nd Author's Affiliation Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
3rd Author's Name Takuya Fujihashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(OU)
4th Author's Name Takashi Watanabe
4th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(OU)
5th Author's Name Shunsuke Saruwatari
5th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(OU)
Date 2023-01-19
Paper # SeMI2022-82
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) SeMI-341
Page pp.pp.49-50(SeMI),
#Pages 2
Date of Issue 2023-01-12 (SeMI)