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Mengning Li

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arXiv2026

Commodity RF Sensing of Belowground Tuber Growth

Belowground yield-forming organs of root and tuber crops are difficult to measure during growth, and management therefore relies on aboveground proxies and destructive sampling. Aboveground wireless links could provide a low-cost, non-invasive alternative, but strong attenuation and soil-dependent variability make repeatable subsurface sensing challenging. In a controlled greenhouse pot study of sweet potato, we deploy aboveground antennas in a line-of-sight-suppressed geometry and collect daily swept-frequency channel spectra together with standardized cellular link indicators, revealing consistent frequency-dependent attenuation and rippling as tubers develop. Here, we show that swept-frequency measurements in the 2.0-3.5 gigahertz band yield four interpretable spectral features that classify day-indexed growth stages with up to 87.5% accuracy across two soil recipes and two moisture regimes, and that fusing cellular link-quality indicators enables 5-centimeter-grid tuber localization with up to 95.0% accuracy, providing a proof-of-concept for subsurface crop monitoring without buried sensors, and motivating validation across cultivars and larger soil volumes.

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arXiv2026

DuTrack: Long-Term Indoor Human Tracking with Dual-Channel Sensing and Inference

Wi-Fi tracking technology demonstrates promising potential for future smart home and intelligent family care. Currently, accurate Wi-Fi tracking methods rely primarily on fine-grained velocity features. However, such velocity-based approaches suffer from the problem of accumulative errors, making it challenging to stably track users' trajectories over a long period of time. This paper presents DuTrack, a fusion-based tracking system for stable human tracking. The fundamental idea is to leverage the ubiquitous acoustic signals in households to rectify the accumulative Wi-Fi tracking error. Theoretically, Wi-Fi sensing in line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios can be modeled as elliptical Fresnel zones and hyperbolic zones, respectively. By designing acoustic sensing signals, we are able to model the acoustic sensing zones as a series of hyperbolic clusters. We reveal how to fuse the fields of electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves, and establish the optimization equation. Next, we design a data-driven architecture to solve the aforementioned optimization equation. Experimental results show that the proposed multimodal tracking scheme exhibits superior performance. We achieve a 89.37% reduction in median tracking error compared to model-based methods and a 65.02% reduction compared to data-driven methods.

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arXiv2026

Uni-Fi: Integrated Multi-Task Wi-Fi Sensing

Wi-Fi sensing technology enables non-intrusive, continuous monitoring of user locations and activities, which supports diverse smart home applications. Since different sensing tasks exhibit contextual relationships, their integration can enhance individual module performance. However, integrating sensing tasks across different studies faces challenges due to the absence of: 1) a unified architecture that captures the fundamental nature shared across diverse sensing tasks, and 2) an extensible pipeline that accommodates future sensing methodologies. This paper presents UNI-FI, an extensible framework for multi-task Wi-Fi sensing integration. This paper makes the following contributions: 1) we propose a unified theoretical framework that reveals fundamental differences between single-task and multi-task sensing; 2) we develop a scalable sensing pipeline that automatically generates a multi-task sensing solver, enabling seamless integration of multiple sensing models. Experimental results show that UNI-FI achieves robust performance across tasks, with a median localization error of approximately 0.54 m, 98.34% accuracy for activity classification, and 98.57% accuracy for presence detection.

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