FewSense, Towards a Scalable and Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing System Using Few-Shot Learning

Wi-Fi sensing can classify human activities because each activity causes unique changes to the channel state information (CSI). Existing WiFi sensing suffers from limited scalability as the system needs to be retrained whenever new activities are added, which cause overheads of data collection and retraining. Cross-domain sensing may fail because the mapping between activities and CSI variations is destroyed when a different environment or user (domain) is involved. This paper proposed a few-shot learning-based WiFi sensing system, named FewSense, which can recognise novel classes in unseen domains with only few samples. Specifically, a feature extractor was pre-trained offline using the source domain data. When the system was applied in the target domain, few samples were used to fine-tune the feature extractor for domain adaptation. Inference was made by computing the cosine similarity. FewSense can further boost the classification accuracy by collaboratively fusing inference from multiple receivers. We evaluated the performance using three public datasets, i.e., SignFi, Widar, and Wiar. The results show that FewSense with five-shot learning recognised novel classes in unseen domains with an accuracy of 90.3%, 96.5% ,82.7% on SignFi, Widar, and Wiar datasets, respectively. Our collaborative sensing model improved system performance by an average of 30%.