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WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding (arxiv.org)
1 point by defrost on Jul 24, 2025 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Instead of cameras, this system reads how a person distorts Wi-Fi signals and turns those patterns into a signature for recognizing them again later. In tests it performed about as well as the best existing methods.

Abstract

Person Re-Identification is a key and challenging task in video surveillance. While traditional methods rely on visual data, issues like poor lighting, occlusion, and suboptimal angles often hinder performance. To address these challenges, we introduce WhoFi, a novel pipeline that utilizes Wi-Fi signals for person re-identification. Biometric features are extracted from Channel State Information (CSI) and processed through a modular Deep Neural Network (DNN) featuring a Transformer-based encoder. The network is trained using an in-batch negative loss function to learn robust and generalizable biometric signatures. Experiments on the NTU-Fi dataset show that our approach achieves competitive results compared to state-of-the-art methods, confirming its effectiveness in identifying individuals via Wi-Fi signals.

Danilo Avola, Emad Emam, Dario Montagnini, Daniele Pannone, Amedeo Ranaldi
arXiv:2507.12869 · cs.CV, cs.LG · submitted Jul 17, 2025 · updated Aug 4, 2025
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