Meta-Transfer Learning-Based Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition Using WiFi Channel State Information

Gesture recognition plays a crucial role in a wide range of consumer electronics applications, including human-computer interaction and virtual reality, by enabling the identification and interpretation of human gestures. In recent times, WiFi-based gesture recognition has garnered significant attention due to its privacy protection and unobtrusive nature. However, this approach heavily depends on neural network-based models and is notably influenced by environmental conditions, such as specific location and orientation. To address these environmental impacts, we propose a network framework that leverages transfer learning and meta-learning. The primary focus is on utilizing transfer learning to train a convolutional neural network (ResNet) for feature extraction, enabling the extraction of domain-independent features specifically related to gestures, rather than being influenced by environmental factors. Additionally, we employ the meta-learning algorithm MAML to train the fully connected network for gesture classification. Following training, a small set of samples can be utilized for rapid adaptation to diverse domains, maintaining high accuracy across different domains to achieve cross-domain gesture recognition. Our performance evaluation is based on the Widar 3.0 dataset, encompassing both in-domain and cross-domain scenarios. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm surpasses Widar3.0 and WiGRUNT by approximately 7.9% and 1.12% in gesture recognition accuracy across all scenarios.