# WiFi-JEPA: Self-supervised Learning for WiFi-CSI 3D Human Pose Estimation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11064 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.11064/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 22 of its 29 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 22 of 22)

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- [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.07919/) (2019)
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- [Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.08243/) (2023)
- [V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.09985/) (2025)
- [Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08471/) (2024)
- [ViTPose: Simple Vision Transformer Baselines for Human Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.12484/) (2022)
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- [Pre-training without Natural Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.08515/) (2021)
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- [Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11103/) (2023)
- [Person-in-WiFi: Fine-grained Person Perception using WiFi](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.00276/) (2019)
- [WirelessJEPA: A Multi-Antenna Foundation Model using Spatio-temporal Wireless Latent Predictions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.20190/) (2026)
- [Towards Robust and Realistic Human Pose Estimation via WiFi Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.09411/) (2025)
- [AM-FM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Intelligence Through WiFi](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.11200/) (2026)
- [CIG-MAE: Cross-Modal Information-Guided Masked Autoencoder for Self-Supervised WiFi Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.04723/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Trajectory-Guided Tokenization of Complex CSI for Wi-Fi Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.06288/) (2026)
- [WiSPER: Pose-Supervised Predictive and Residual Flow Refinement For Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation With WiFi CSI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.07025/) (2026)
- [UniCSI Towards a Universal Wi-Fi CSI Encoder for Ubiquitous Human Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.09559/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) enables privacy-preserving human pose sensing in camera-denied environments, but existing WiFi-based pose estimators often fail under environment shifts and rely on costly camera-based annotation pipelines that limit scale. We propose WiFi-JEPA, a self-supervised framework that learns CSI-native representations by predicting masked latent embeddings instead of reconstructing raw CSI signals that may contain hardware-specific artifacts. WiFi-JEPA makes three contributions: (i) CSI-specific tokenization and link masking tailored to the CSI tensor over channel, time, and link (C,T,L); masking entire Tx-Rx antenna links forces the model to predict one spatial link view from others, capturing cross-link correlations informative of 3D spatial structure. (ii) A ray-tracing CSI simulation pipeline that generates diverse unlabeled CSI from randomized geometric primitives, providing scalable pre-training data without pose annotations. (iii) State-of-the-art results on Person-in-WiFi-3D: WiFi-JEPA outperforms prior WiFi-CSI baselines on both single- and multi-person 3D pose estimation under the same evaluation protocol. We also show that simulated CSI provides complementary pre-training signal to real CSI, and that four vision-native SSL objectives degrade performance below training from scratch, whereas WiFi-JEPA consistently improves downstream pose estimation.