Tracking Humans With WiFi | Hackaday

In situation you considered that cameras, LiDAR, infrared sensors, and the like weren’t more than enough for Big Brother to keep track of you, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have observed a way to observe human actions by means of WiFi. [PDF via VPNoverview]

The method employs the alerts from WiFi routers for an low-cost way to identify human poses that is not hampered by lack of illumination or item occlusion. The procedure generates UV coordinates of human bodies by analyzing sign strength and phase details to create a 2D element map and then feeding that by means of a modified DensePose-RCNN architecture which corresponds to 3D human poses. The technique does have difficulty with uncommon poses that are not in the teaching established or if there are much more than three topics in the detection place.

While there are most likely purposes in Kinect-esque VR Halo games, this will in all probability go straight into the toolbox of 3 letter organizations and promoting-fueled tech providers. The authors assert this to use “privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing,” but only time will notify if they are suitable.

If you are intrigued in other creepy surveillance instruments, checkout the Heat-Sensing Crotch Monitor or this Dystopian Peep Demonstrate.