An Accurate and Efficient Device-Free Localization Approach Based on Gaussian Bernoulli Restricted Boltzmann Machine

As an emerging technology, device-free localization (DFL), using radio frequency (RF) sensor networks to detect targets who do not carry any attached devices, has spawned extensive applications. Many existing works formulate DFL as a classification problem, and a key problem is how to extract discriminative features to characterize the raw wireless signal. In this paper, we present an autoencoder-based deep neural network for feature extraction, moreover, multiple Gaussian Bernoulli restricted Boltzmann machines (GBRBMs) are utilized for pre-training and dimension reduction. Experiment results show that this method of GBRBM-based autoencoder (GBRBM-AE) can achieve a high accuracy and efficient performance, which outperforms the conventional autoencoder. When the dimensions of input data are reduced from 784 to 20 dims, our algorithm can maintain a high accuracy of 97.1% and is robust to noise with SNR = 5dB.