2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

Technical Program

Paper Detail

Paper IDSS-9.2
Paper Title PUSHING THE LIMIT OF PHASE OFFSET FOR CONTACTLESS SENSING USING COMMODITY WIFI
Authors Dongheng Zhang, Xiong Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Yan Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
SessionSS-9: Contactless and Wireless Sensing for Smart Environments
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 13:00 - 13:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Special Sessions: Contactless and Wireless Sensing for Smart Environments
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Abstract In this paper, we propose BreathTrack2.0, a contactless breath tracking system based on commodity WiFi devices. BreathTrack2.0 could track the detailed breath status through the phase variation of channel state information(CSI). To achieve this, BreathTrack2.0 first combines the signal on multiple antennas and subcarriers with a joint Angle of Arrival(AoA) and Time of Flight(ToF) beamformer to strengthen the signal from human. Then, it utilizes the fact that the phase offsets introduced by the hardware imperfection are the same among different propagation paths to cancel the phase offsets. Finally, the phase variation of the extracted human signal is utilized to estimate the breath rate and indicate the detailed breath status. Real world experiments demonstrate that the proposed system could estimate the breath rate with the median accuracy of over 99% and could track the detailed status of human breath.