Wi-Spike: A Low-power WiFi Human Multi-action Recognition Model with Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14475v1
• Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:40:24 GMT
• Title: Wi-Spike: A Low-power WiFi Human Multi-action Recognition Model with Spiking Neural Networks
• Abstract summary: Wi-Spike is a bio-inspired neural network framework for efficient and accurate action recognition.<n>We show that Wi-Spike achieves competitive accuracy in single-action recognition and superior performance in multi-action recognition tasks.<n>As for energy consumption, Wi-Spike reduces the energy cost by at least half compared with other methods, while still achieving 95.83% recognition accuracy in human activity recognition.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: WiFi-based human action recognition (HAR) has gained significant attention due to its non-intrusive and privacy-preserving nature. However, most existing WiFi sensing models predominantly focus on improving recognition accuracy, while issues of power consumption and energy efficiency remain insufficiently discussed. In this work, we present Wi-Spike, a bio-inspired spiking neural network (SNN) framework for efficient and accurate action recognition using WiFi channel state information (CSI) signals. Specifically, leveraging the event-driven and low-power characteristics of SNNs, Wi-Spike introduces spiking convolutional layers for spatio-temporal feature extraction and a novel temporal attention mechanism to enhance discriminative representation. The extracted features are subsequently encoded and classified through spiking fully connected layers and a voting layer. Comprehensive experiments on three benchmark datasets (NTU-Fi-HAR, NTU-Fi-HumanID, and UT-HAR) demonstrate that Wi-Spike achieves competitive accuracy in single-action recognition and superior performance in multi-action recognition tasks. As for energy consumption, Wi-Spike reduces the energy cost by at least half compared with other methods, while still achieving 95.83% recognition accuracy in human activity recognition. More importantly, Wi-Spike establishes a new state-of-the-art in WiFi-based multi-action HAR, offering a promising solution for real-time, energy-efficient edge sensing applications.

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