Poster: Efficient Passive Tracking using Commodity WiFi with Single-Shot Training
Indoor tracking plays a critical role in a wide range of applications, yet existing solutions based on cameras, acoustics, or radar often face challenges related to privacy, deployment cost, and environmental sensitivity. WiFi-based methods offer a promising alternative by leveraging existing infrastructure, but most current approaches are active, requiring users to carry dedicated devices—limiting practicality in everyday scenarios. Passive WiFi tracking is more user-friendly, but existing solutions typically rely on complex feature engineering, require large training datasets, and struggle to generalize across different users and environments. In this work, we introduce a novel passive tracking system that requires only a single-shot training phase. By leveraging location signature based on statistical proximity metrics derived from CSI across multiple distributed WiFi devices, our method enables accurate, scalable, and training-efficient indoor tracking.
Authors
- Guozhen Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2672-1810)
- K. J. Ray Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5469-5811)
- Yuqian Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1853-2449)
- Beibei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7100-0815)
- Wei-Hsiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5897-9899)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-06-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3711875.3734563
- Primary Topic
- Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00