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WiFlexFormer: Efficient WiFi-Based Person-Centric Sensing (arxiv.org)
2 points by PaulHoule on Nov 15, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A compact Transformer reads how WiFi signals bend around people to recognize everyday activities. It matches larger vision and radio models while running in 10 ms on a small device, and often does better on new settings.

Abstract

We propose WiFlexFormer, a highly efficient Transformer-based architecture designed for WiFi Channel State Information (CSI)-based person-centric sensing. We benchmark WiFlexFormer against state-of-the-art vision and specialized architectures for processing radio frequency data and demonstrate that it achieves comparable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) performance while offering a significantly lower parameter count and faster inference times. With an inference time of just 10 ms on an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano, WiFlexFormer is optimized for real-time inference. Additionally, its low parameter count contributes to improved cross-domain generalization, where it often outperforms larger models. Our comprehensive evaluation shows that WiFlexFormer is a potential solution for efficient, scalable WiFi-based sensing applications. The PyTorch implementation of WiFlexFormer is publicly available at: https://github.com/StrohmayerJ/WiFlexFormer.

Julian Strohmayer, Matthias Wödlinger, Martin Kampel
arXiv:2411.04224 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.ET, cs.LG · submitted Nov 6, 2024
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