Subject-independent Human Pose Image Construction with Commodity Wi-Fi

TL;DR

This paper introduces a domain-independent neural network that enables commodity Wi-Fi devices to construct detailed human pose images of new subjects without re-training, demonstrating effective generalization across different individuals and scenarios.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel domain-independent neural network and training method that improve subject-generalization in Wi-Fi-based human pose image construction without re-training overhead.

Findings

Effective pose image construction for new subjects.

Successful application in visible and through-wall scenarios.

No additional re-training required for new subjects.

Abstract

Recently, commodity Wi-Fi devices have been shown to be able to construct human pose images, i.e., human skeletons, as fine-grained as cameras. Existing papers achieve good results when constructing the images of subjects who are in the prior training samples. However, the performance drops when it comes to new subjects, i.e., the subjects who are not in the training samples. This paper focuses on solving the subject-generalization problem in human pose image construction. To this end, we define the subject as the domain. Then we design a Domain-Independent Neural Network (DINN) to extract subject-independent features and convert them into fine-grained human pose images. We also propose a novel training method to train the DINN and it has no re-training overhead comparing with the domain-adversarial approach. We build a prototype system and experimental results demonstrate that our system can construct fine-grained human pose images of new subjects with commodity Wi-Fi in both the visible and through-wall scenarios, which shows the effectiveness and the subject-generalization ability of our model.