TRIS-HAR: Transmissive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Human Activity Recognition Using State Space Models

Human activity recognition (HAR) using radio frequency (RF) signals has attracted increasing interest due to its non-intrusive and privacy-preserving nature. However, traditional systems often suffer from multipath fading, environmental noise, and limited spatial diversity, particularly in through-the-wall scenarios. In this paper, we propose TRIS-HAR, a novel HAR system that integrates a transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface (TRIS) with an advanced dual-stream state space model, Human intelligence Mamba (HiMamba). The TRIS actively reshapes the propagation environment by constructing deterministic quasi-line-of-sight (QLoS) paths across obstacles, significantly improving channel state information (CSI) quality. Complementing this, HiMamba leverages a lightweight structured state space architecture to jointly model temporal and spectral dynamics, enabling robust activity recognition under non-line-of-sight conditions. Extensive experiments on both public and real-world datasets demonstrate that TRIS-HAR improves recognition accuracy from 85.00% to 98.06% and maintains strong generalizability across environments. The model is also deployed on a CPU-based edge device, achieving real-time inference at 108 FPS with minimal memory cost. This work establishes a co-designed hardware-algorithm framework for RF-based HAR, offering a scalable and deployable solution for smart homes, healthcare, and next-generation pervasive sensing applications.