SkeFi: Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer for Wireless Skeleton-Based Action Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12432v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:39:02 GMT
• Title: SkeFi: Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer for Wireless Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
• Authors: Shunyu Huang, Yunjiao Zhou, Jianfei Yang,
• Abstract summary: Existing solutions use RGB cameras to annotate skeletal keypoints, but their performance declines in dark environments and raises privacy concerns.<n>This paper explores non-invasive wireless sensors, i.e., LiDAR and mmWave, to mitigate these challenges.<n> Experiments demonstrate that SkeFi realizes state-of-the-art performances on mmWave and LiDAR.
• Score: 20.020503149009787
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Skeleton-based action recognition leverages human pose keypoints to categorize human actions, which shows superior generalization and interoperability compared to regular end-to-end action recognition. Existing solutions use RGB cameras to annotate skeletal keypoints, but their performance declines in dark environments and raises privacy concerns, limiting their use in smart homes and hospitals. This paper explores non-invasive wireless sensors, i.e., LiDAR and mmWave, to mitigate these challenges as a feasible alternative. Two problems are addressed: (1) insufficient data on wireless sensor modality to train an accurate skeleton estimation model, and (2) skeletal keypoints derived from wireless sensors are noisier than RGB, causing great difficulties for subsequent action recognition models. Our work, SkeFi, overcomes these gaps through a novel cross-modal knowledge transfer method acquired from the data-rich RGB modality. We propose the enhanced Temporal Correlation Adaptive Graph Convolution (TC-AGC) with frame interactive enhancement to overcome the noise from missing or inconsecutive frames. Additionally, our research underscores the effectiveness of enhancing multiscale temporal modeling through dual temporal convolution. By integrating TC-AGC with temporal modeling for cross-modal transfer, our framework can extract accurate poses and actions from noisy wireless sensors. Experiments demonstrate that SkeFi realizes state-of-the-art performances on mmWave and LiDAR. The code is available at https://github.com/Huang0035/Skefi.

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