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Article

Human Motion Segmentation via Spatiotemporally Dual-Constrained Density Estimation with Commodity Wi-Fi Device

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School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
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School of Physics, Electronics and Intelligent Manufacturing, Huaihua University, Huaihua 418000, China
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Jiangsu Engineering Research Center of Communication and Network Technology, Nanjing 210003, China
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Sensors 2026, 26(11), 3303; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113303
Submission received: 21 April 2026 / Revised: 13 May 2026 / Accepted: 20 May 2026 / Published: 22 May 2026
(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Abstract

In ubiquitous Wi-Fi sensing, human motion interval segmentation is crucial for applications ranging from basic intrusion detection to advanced activity understanding. Existing methods often treat the Channel State Information (CSI) primarily as time series, overlooking its rich information in the spatial and frequency domains. To address this, we propose a training-free motion segmentation method that exploits the spatiotemporal features of CSI. We first analyze the discriminative spatial distributions of the CSI Ratio on the complex plane and construct a spatiotemporally dual-constrained local density estimator to characterize motion-induced perturbations. To overcome subcarrier selection challenges, we introduce a packet-level asymmetric truncation-based fusion algorithm, which yields a feature representation with a pronounced bimodal histogram. This enables the automatic determination of the optimal segmentation threshold based on the distribution characteristics of the truncated density image. Experiments in typical indoor environments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves high accuracy in both motion event detection and interval localization.
Keywords: channel state information; internet of things; motion segmentation; Wi-Fi channel state information; internet of things; motion segmentation; Wi-Fi

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MDPI and ACS Style

Wang, X.; Zhang, L.; Shu, F. Human Motion Segmentation via Spatiotemporally Dual-Constrained Density Estimation with Commodity Wi-Fi Device. Sensors 2026, 26, 3303. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113303

AMA Style

Wang X, Zhang L, Shu F. Human Motion Segmentation via Spatiotemporally Dual-Constrained Density Estimation with Commodity Wi-Fi Device. Sensors. 2026; 26(11):3303. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113303

Chicago/Turabian Style

Wang, Xu, Linghua Zhang, and Feng Shu. 2026. "Human Motion Segmentation via Spatiotemporally Dual-Constrained Density Estimation with Commodity Wi-Fi Device" Sensors 26, no. 11: 3303. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113303

APA Style

Wang, X., Zhang, L., & Shu, F. (2026). Human Motion Segmentation via Spatiotemporally Dual-Constrained Density Estimation with Commodity Wi-Fi Device. Sensors, 26(11), 3303. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26113303

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