Passive Channel Charting: Locating Passive Targets using Wi-Fi Channel State Information
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| author | Euchner, Florian Kellner, David Stephan, Phillip Brink, Stephan ten |
| author_facet | Euchner, Florian Kellner, David Stephan, Phillip Brink, Stephan ten |
| contents | We propose passive channel charting, an extension of channel charting to passive target localization. As in conventional channel charting, we follow a dimensionality reduction approach to reconstruct a physically interpretable map of target positions from similarities in high-dimensional channel state information. We show that algorithms and neural network architectures developed in the context of channel charting with active mobile transmitters can be straightforwardly applied to the passive case, where we assume a scenario with static transmitters and receivers and a mobile target. We evaluate our method on a channel state information dataset collected indoors with a distributed setup of ESPARGOS Wi-Fi sensing antenna arrays. This scenario can be interpreted as either a multi-static or passive radar system. We demonstrate that passive channel charting outperforms a baseline based on classical triangulation in terms of localization accuracy. We discuss our results and highlight some unsolved issues related to the proposed concept. |
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| spellingShingle | Passive Channel Charting: Locating Passive Targets using Wi-Fi Channel State Information Euchner, Florian Kellner, David Stephan, Phillip Brink, Stephan ten Information Theory Signal Processing We propose passive channel charting, an extension of channel charting to passive target localization. As in conventional channel charting, we follow a dimensionality reduction approach to reconstruct a physically interpretable map of target positions from similarities in high-dimensional channel state information. We show that algorithms and neural network architectures developed in the context of channel charting with active mobile transmitters can be straightforwardly applied to the passive case, where we assume a scenario with static transmitters and receivers and a mobile target. We evaluate our method on a channel state information dataset collected indoors with a distributed setup of ESPARGOS Wi-Fi sensing antenna arrays. This scenario can be interpreted as either a multi-static or passive radar system. We demonstrate that passive channel charting outperforms a baseline based on classical triangulation in terms of localization accuracy. We discuss our results and highlight some unsolved issues related to the proposed concept. |
| title | Passive Channel Charting: Locating Passive Targets using Wi-Fi Channel State Information |
| topic | Information Theory Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09924 |