Multi-Source Domain Generalization for CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition

Domain generalization remains a key challenge in human activity recognition based on channel state information (CSI). Different domains correspond to distinct data distributions, deviating from the typical assumption of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data, which leads to significant performance degradation when models are applied to unseen domains. To address this issue, we propose a novel domain generalization model that integrates meta-learning initialization and an adaptive channel grouping attention mechanism. First, a meta-learning strategy is employed to acquire well-initialized parameters from multiple source domain tasks, enabling the model to implicitly enhance its cross-domain generalization ability. Second, an adaptive grouping attention mechanism is designed in the feature extraction stage to effectively capture the sensitivity differences of different subcarriers to human activities. Meanwhile, a random masking training mechanism is introduced to simulate real-world domain variations and improve model robustness. In addition, a domain adversarial training framework based on the gradient reversal layer (GRL) is adopted to mitigate domain-specific feature dependency, further enhancing the model’s generalization capability. We evaluate our proposed method on both a self-collected dataset, which includes human activity data from nine volunteers across six different environments, and a public CSI dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing approaches in domain generalization performance, verifying its effectiveness and practical applicability.