Wi-Diag: Robust Multisubject Abnormal Gait Diagnosis With Commodity Wi-Fi

Lei Zhang, Yazhou Ma, Xiaojie Fan, Xiaochen Fan, Yonggang Zhang, Zhenxiang Chen, Xianyi Chen, Daqing Zhang

Abstract: The existing commodity Wi-Fi-based human gait recognition systems mainly focus on a single subject due to the challenges of multisubject walking monitoring. To tackle the problem, we propose Wi-Diag, the first commodity Wi-Fi-based multisubject abnormal gait diagnosis system that leverages only one pair of off-the-shelf commercial Wi-Fi transceivers to separate each subject’s gait information and maintains an excellent performance when the scenario changes. It is an intelligent multisubject gait diagnosis system that can release an experienced doctor from heavy load work. Multisubject abnormal gait diagnosis is modeled as a blind source separation (BSS) issue, and multisubject walking mixed signals are efficiently separated by IC analysis (ICA) approach. This fact is verified by comprehensive theoretical derivation and experimental validation. In addition, CycleGAN is leveraged to mitigate the environmental dependency so that Wi-Diag can be robust when the scenario changes. The excellent performance of Wi-Diag is verified by extensive experiments. The average mean diagnosis accuracy with a maximum group size of four and various scenarios is 87.77%.