WiFi based Human Fall and Activity Recognition using Transformer based Encoder Decoder and Graph Neural Networks

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Main Authors: Cho, Younggeol, Motta, Elisa, Nocentini, Olivia, Lagomarsino, Marta, Merello, Andrea, Crepaldi, Marco, Ajoudani, Arash
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author Cho, Younggeol
Motta, Elisa
Nocentini, Olivia
Lagomarsino, Marta
Merello, Andrea
Crepaldi, Marco
Ajoudani, Arash
author_facet Cho, Younggeol
Motta, Elisa
Nocentini, Olivia
Lagomarsino, Marta
Merello, Andrea
Crepaldi, Marco
Ajoudani, Arash
contents Human pose estimation and action recognition have received attention due to their critical roles in healthcare monitoring, rehabilitation, and assistive technologies. In this study, we proposed a novel architecture named Transformer based Encoder Decoder Network (TED Net) designed for estimating human skeleton poses from WiFi Channel State Information (CSI). TED Net integrates convolutional encoders with transformer based attention mechanisms to capture spatiotemporal features from CSI signals. The estimated skeleton poses were used as input to a customized Directed Graph Neural Network (DGNN) for action recognition. We validated our model on two datasets: a publicly available multi modal dataset for assessing general pose estimation, and a newly collected dataset focused on fall related scenarios involving 20 participants. Experimental results demonstrated that TED Net outperformed existing approaches in pose estimation, and that the DGNN achieves reliable action classification using CSI based skeletons, with performance comparable to RGB based systems. Notably, TED Net maintains robust performance across both fall and non fall cases. These findings highlight the potential of CSI driven human skeleton estimation for effective action recognition, particularly in home environments such as elderly fall detection. In such settings, WiFi signals are often readily available, offering a privacy preserving alternative to vision based methods, which may raise concerns about continuous camera monitoring.
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spellingShingle WiFi based Human Fall and Activity Recognition using Transformer based Encoder Decoder and Graph Neural Networks
Cho, Younggeol
Motta, Elisa
Nocentini, Olivia
Lagomarsino, Marta
Merello, Andrea
Crepaldi, Marco
Ajoudani, Arash
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human pose estimation and action recognition have received attention due to their critical roles in healthcare monitoring, rehabilitation, and assistive technologies. In this study, we proposed a novel architecture named Transformer based Encoder Decoder Network (TED Net) designed for estimating human skeleton poses from WiFi Channel State Information (CSI). TED Net integrates convolutional encoders with transformer based attention mechanisms to capture spatiotemporal features from CSI signals. The estimated skeleton poses were used as input to a customized Directed Graph Neural Network (DGNN) for action recognition. We validated our model on two datasets: a publicly available multi modal dataset for assessing general pose estimation, and a newly collected dataset focused on fall related scenarios involving 20 participants. Experimental results demonstrated that TED Net outperformed existing approaches in pose estimation, and that the DGNN achieves reliable action classification using CSI based skeletons, with performance comparable to RGB based systems. Notably, TED Net maintains robust performance across both fall and non fall cases. These findings highlight the potential of CSI driven human skeleton estimation for effective action recognition, particularly in home environments such as elderly fall detection. In such settings, WiFi signals are often readily available, offering a privacy preserving alternative to vision based methods, which may raise concerns about continuous camera monitoring.
title WiFi based Human Fall and Activity Recognition using Transformer based Encoder Decoder and Graph Neural Networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16655