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Generalizing location-centric variations to enhance contactless human activity recognition

Jun 19, 2025

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Published in: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Fawad Khan Syed Yaseen Shah Jawad Ahmad Alanoud Al Mazroa Adnan Zahid Muhammad Ilyas Qammer Hussain Abbasi Syed Aziz shah

Contactless Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has played a critical role in smart healthcare and elderly care homes to monitor patient behavior and detect falls or abnormal activities in real time. The effectiveness of non-invasive HAR is often hindered by location-centric variations in Channel State Information (CSI). These variations limit the ability of HAR models to generalize across new unseen cross-domain environments; for instance, a model trained in one location might not perform well in another physical location. To address this challenge, in this study, we present a novel federated learning (FL) algorithm designed to train a robust global model from local datasets in different localizations. The proposed Federated Weighted Averaging for HAR (Fed-WAHAR) algorithm mitigates location-induced disparities, including heterogeneity and non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data distributions. Fed-WAHAR employs a dynamic weighting approach based on local models' accuracy to improve global model classification accuracy and reduce convergence time effectively. We evaluated the performance of Fed-WAHAR using various metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, confusion matrix, and convergence analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that Fed-WAHAR achieves an accuracy of 85% in recognizing human activities across different locations, enhancing the ability of the model to infer across new unseen locations.

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