# Can WiFi Estimate Person Pose?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00277 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.00277/

## Key facts

- Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Mar 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [MetaFi: Device-Free Pose Estimation via Commodity WiFi for Metaverse Avatar Simulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.10414/) (2022)
- [2D Human Pose Estimation: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.07370/) (2022)
- [AdaPose: Towards Cross-Site Device-Free Human Pose Estimation with Commodity WiFi](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.16964/) (2023)
- [XRF V2: A Dataset for Action Summarization with Wi-Fi Signals, and IMUs in Phones, Watches, Earbuds, and Glasses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.19034/) (2025)
- [A Survey on Wi-Fi Sensing Generalizability: Taxonomy, Techniques, Datasets, and Future Research Prospects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.08008/) (2025)
- [Towards Robust and Realistic Human Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.09411/) (2025)
- [Guiding AI-Generated Digital Content with Wireless Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14624/) (2023)
- [Graph-based 3D Human Pose Estimation using WiFi Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.19105/) (2025)
- [GraSens: A Gabor Residual Anti-aliasing Sensing Framework for Action Recognition using WiFi](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11945/) (2022)
- [CSI4Free: GAN-Augmented mmWave CSI for Improved Pose Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.18684/) (2024)
- [VST-Pose: A Velocity-Integrated Spatiotem-poral Attention Network for Human WiFi Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.09672/) (2025)
- [TinySense: Effective CSI Compression for Scalable and Accurate Wi-Fi Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.15838/) (2026)
- [WiFlow: A Lightweight WiFi-based Continuous Human Pose Estimation Network with Spatio-Temporal Feature Decoupling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.08661/) (2026)
- [A Wireless-Vision Dataset for Privacy Preserving Human Activity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11962/) (2022)
- [Learning Higher-order Object Interactions for Keypoint-based Video Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.09539/) (2023)
- [WECAR: An End-Edge Collaborative Inference and Training Framework for WiFi-Based Continuous Human Activity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.07669/) (2025)
- [MultiFormer: A Multi-Person Pose Estimation System Based on CSI and Attention Mechanism](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22555/) (2025)
- [RePos: Relative-to-Absolute Pose Factorization for Cross-Environment WiFi-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.02986/) (2026)
- [Seeing Through WiFi: Lightweight Human Pose Estimation with Dynamic Kernel Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.03196/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

WiFi human sensing has achieved great progress in indoor localization, activity classification, etc. Retracing the development of these work, we have a natural question: can WiFi devices work like cameras for vision applications? In this paper We try to answer this question by exploring the ability of WiFi on estimating single person pose. We use a 3-antenna WiFi sender and a 3-antenna receiver to generate WiFi data. Meanwhile, we use a synchronized camera to capture person videos for corresponding keypoint annotations. We further propose a fully convolutional network (FCN), termed WiSPPN, to estimate single person pose from the collected data and annotations. Evaluation on over 80k images (16 sites and 8 persons) replies aforesaid question with a positive answer. Codes have been made publicly available at https://github.com/geekfeiw/WiSPPN.