Spiking-Aided Neural Architecture for Efficient and Robust WiFi Sensing

This paper initiates the integration of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) into WiFi-based indoor sensing, aiming to enhance performance in challenging signal environments. WiFi signal-based pattern recognition enables a wide range of applications, including human activity recognition, gait analysis for human identification, fine-grained gesture recognition and etc. However, unlike cameras, radar, or LiDAR signals, WiFi measurements are particularly susceptible to noise due to the ubiquitous and interference-prone nature of indoor wireless communication. Biologically inspired SNNs, like the human brain, excel at processing information in noisy environments by leveraging stochastic neural dynamics. To address this, we propose a hybrid architecture that combines conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with SNNs, leveraging the noise-resilient properties of spiking neurons. Our method demonstrates improved accuracy and faster convergence during training. To support this claim, we present a theoretical analysis comparing the noise-handling capabilities of ANN and SNN models in WiFi scenarios. Extensive experiments across three representative WiFi sensing tasks validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed ANN-SNN hybrid architecture. For reproducibility, we will release the code upon acceptance.