The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they’re not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they’re more privacy-preserving than visual images.

[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.

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    24 hours ago

    There is no end user need or product for being able to identify individuals based on their interactions with WiFi signals

    Cat tracker

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      21 hours ago

      Why do you need to identify specific cats over merely the presence of movement or cats in general?

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        21 hours ago

        Because I want to know which cat is getting up to shit they shouldn’t :P