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However, research has shown that the performance of these techniques significantly degrades due to change in various factors including sensing environment, data collection configuration, diversity of target subjects, and target learning task (e.g., activities, gestures, emotions, vital signs). This problem, generally known as the domain change problem, is typically addressed by collecting more data and learning the data distribution that covers multiple factors impacting the performance. However, activity recognition data collection is a very labor-intensive and time consuming task, and there are too many known and unknown factors impacting WiFi CSI signals. In this paper, we propose a domain-independent generative adversarial network for WiFi CSI based activity recognition in combination with a simplified data pre-processing module. Our evaluation results show superiority of our proposed approach compared to the state of the art in terms of increased robustness against domain change, higher accuracy of activity recognition, and reduced model complexity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21237852","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,1]],"date-time":"2021-12-01T01:45:02Z","timestamp":1638323102000},"page":"7852","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["A Domain-Independent Generative Adversarial Network for Activity Recognition Using WiFi CSI Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Augustinas","family":"Zinys","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Interconnected Resource-Aware Intelligent Systems Cluster, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7174-5059","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bram","family":"van Berlo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Interconnected Resource-Aware Intelligent Systems Cluster, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Nirvana","family":"Meratnia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Interconnected Resource-Aware Intelligent Systems Cluster, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"46","article-title":"WiFi Sensing with Channel State Information: A Survey","volume":"52","author":"Ma","year":"2019","journal-title":"ACM Comput. 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