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AMAR: Attention-Based Multi-User Activity Recognition from Wi-Fi CSI

ai-technology · 2026-05-22

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) using channel state information (CSI) has been limited to single-user scenarios, but real-world deployments involve multiple users with overlapping CSI patterns. To address this, the paper introduces AMAR (Attention-Based Multi-User Activity Recognition), a transformer-based framework that formulates HAR as a set prediction problem. AMAR uses learnable query embeddings as specialized activity detectors to simultaneously identify multiple activities from composite CSI representations. It is designed in an edge-cloud split architecture for deployment efficiency. The work is published on arXiv with ID 2605.20649.

Key facts

  • Wi-Fi-based HAR uses CSI from wireless transceivers
  • Existing studies focus on single-user scenarios
  • Multi-user settings cause overlapping CSI patterns
  • AMAR formulates HAR as a set prediction problem
  • Transformer architecture with learnable query embeddings
  • Simultaneous identification of multiple activities
  • Edge-cloud split architecture for deployment
  • Published on arXiv: 2605.20649

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