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TACT first reliably detects the presence of human activities and segments phase values. Then, candidate phase segments are classified according to their coarse-grained features (e.g., moving speed, moving distance, activity duration) as well as their fine-grained feature of phase waveform. We deploy and leverage multiple tags to increase the coverage and enhance the robustness of the system. We implement TACT with commodity RFID systems. We invite 12 participants to evaluate our system in various scenarios. 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