WiGAN: A WiFi Based Gesture Recognition System with GANs

In recent years, a series of research experiments have been conducted on WiFi-based gesture recognition. However, current recognition systems are still facing the challenge of small samples and environmental dependence. To deal with the problem of performance degradation caused by these factors, we propose a WiFi-based gesture recognition system, WiGAN, which uses Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to extract and generate gesture features. With GAN, WiGAN expands the data capacity to reduce time cost and increase sample diversity. The proposed system extracts and fuses multiple convolutional layer feature maps as gesture features before gesture recognition. After fusing features, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is exploited for human activity classification because of its accuracy and convenience. The key insight of WiGAN is to generate samples and merge multi-grained feature maps in our designed GAN, which not only enhances the data but also allows the neural network to select different grained features for gesture recognition. According to the result of experiments conducted on two existing datasets, the average recognition accuracy of WiGAN reaches 98% and 95.6%, respectively, outperforming the existing system. Moreover, the recognition accuracy under different experimental environments and different users shows the robustness of WiGAN.