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Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls (www.popularmechanics.com)

submitted 9 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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“We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input.”

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 109 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Absolutely ludicrous to paint this development as anything but the wet dream of both a burglar and a police state.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Home automation nerds would also cream their pants if they could get their hands on this. Imagine you could use your existing wifi router to detect presence in your home. Say goodbye to shitty IR sensors that forget about your existence within 3 seconds, no more finicky radar modules that are either too sensitive or not nearly sensitive enough.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I literally just have my machine ping my phone every ten seconds. Surprisingly effective presence detection.

[–] SkoozAnu@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How would one go about setting this up? Because that sounds really cool for home automation.

[–] danielf@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

There is this Home Assistant integration which I remember getting working. I haven't used Home Assistant in a while though, so I can't be a good resource if you need any help.

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