Wi-CSNet: A Spatio-Temporal Model for CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition
Open Access
- 6 August 2026
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Future Internet
- Vol. 18 (8) , 417
Abstract
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on Channel State Information (CSI) has attracted considerable attention as a privacy-preserving sensing paradigm. However, CSI-based HAR faces several challenges, including environmental noise, long-range temporal dependencies, and the anisotropic structure of CSI tensors. To address these challenges, this paper presents Wi-CSNet, a lightweight CSI-oriented framework that integrates Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) preprocessing, asymmetric-stride convolutions, and a Cross-Scanning State Space Duality (CS-SSD) block derived from Mamba2. DWT preprocessing compresses temporal signals while preserving motion-related trends and reducing input dimensionality. Asymmetric-stride convolutions balance feature scales across heterogeneous CSI dimensions, while the lightweight CS-SSD module captures global dependencies with only a 0.63% parameter overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Wi-CSNet achieves accuracies of 97.81% on HHI, 99.92% on UT-HAR, and 100% on NTU-HAR. These results confirm the effectiveness and robustness of Wi-CSNet for fine-grained CSI-based activity recognition in complex environments.Keywords
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