Physics-Guided Attention in a Lightweight TCN for Efficient WiFi CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01834v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:47:23 GMT
• Title: Physics-Guided Attention in a Lightweight TCN for Efficient WiFi CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition
• Abstract summary: We propose a compact temporal convolutional network (TCN)-based framework that explicitly incorporates motion-aware inductive biases into feature learning.<n>Our approach achieves superior performance compared to deeper baselines, while significantly reducing parameter count and computational cost.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Human Action Recognition (HAR) using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) has gained increasing attention due to its non-contact, low-cost, and privacy-preserving nature. However, existing learning-based approaches largely rely on deep, computationally intensive architectures to implicitly capture motion dynamics from CSI measurements, thereby increasing model complexity and reducing efficiency. Instead, we argue that incorporating appropriate inductive biases tailored to the physical characteristics of CSI signals enables more efficient and effective learning. In this work, we propose a compact temporal convolutional network (TCN)-based framework that explicitly incorporates motion-aware inductive biases into feature learning. Specifically, we introduce a Doppler-energy-guided temporal attention mechanism in feature space to emphasize motion-salient time segments, and a variance-driven channel attention module to weight informative subcarriers based on temporal motion statistics adaptively. By integrating these domain-specific priors, the proposed model effectively captures motion dynamics without increasing architectural depth. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach achieves superior performance compared to deeper baselines, while significantly reducing parameter count and computational cost.

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