Beyond Amplitude: Channel State Information Phase-Aware Deep Fusion for Robotic Activity Recognition

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Autores principales: Zandi, Rojin, Salehinejad, Hojjat, Siami, Milad
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author Zandi, Rojin
Salehinejad, Hojjat
Siami, Milad
author_facet Zandi, Rojin
Salehinejad, Hojjat
Siami, Milad
contents Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as a promising non-line-of-sight sensing modality for human and robotic activity recognition. However, prior work has predominantly relied on CSI amplitude while underutilizing phase information, particularly in robotic arm activity recognition. In this paper, we present GateFusion-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network (GF-BiLSTM) for WiFi sensing in robotic activity recognition. GF-BiLSTM is a two-stream gated fusion network that encodes amplitude and phase separately and adaptively integrates per-time features through a learned gating mechanism. We systematically evaluate state-of-the-art deep learning models under a Leave-One-Velocity-Out (LOVO) protocol across four input configurations: amplitude only, phase only, amplitude + unwrapped phase, and amplitude + sanitized phase. Experimental results demonstrate that incorporating phase alongside amplitude consistently improves recognition accuracy and cross-speed robustness, with GF-BiLSTM achieving the best performance. To the best of our knowledge, this work provides the first systematic exploration of CSI phase for robotic activity recognition, establishing its critical role in Wi-Fi-based sensing.
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spellingShingle Beyond Amplitude: Channel State Information Phase-Aware Deep Fusion for Robotic Activity Recognition
Zandi, Rojin
Salehinejad, Hojjat
Siami, Milad
Robotics
Signal Processing
Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) has emerged as a promising non-line-of-sight sensing modality for human and robotic activity recognition. However, prior work has predominantly relied on CSI amplitude while underutilizing phase information, particularly in robotic arm activity recognition. In this paper, we present GateFusion-Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network (GF-BiLSTM) for WiFi sensing in robotic activity recognition. GF-BiLSTM is a two-stream gated fusion network that encodes amplitude and phase separately and adaptively integrates per-time features through a learned gating mechanism. We systematically evaluate state-of-the-art deep learning models under a Leave-One-Velocity-Out (LOVO) protocol across four input configurations: amplitude only, phase only, amplitude + unwrapped phase, and amplitude + sanitized phase. Experimental results demonstrate that incorporating phase alongside amplitude consistently improves recognition accuracy and cross-speed robustness, with GF-BiLSTM achieving the best performance. To the best of our knowledge, this work provides the first systematic exploration of CSI phase for robotic activity recognition, establishing its critical role in Wi-Fi-based sensing.
title Beyond Amplitude: Channel State Information Phase-Aware Deep Fusion for Robotic Activity Recognition
topic Robotics
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09047