WiNeRF — Learning Wireless Channels from Sparse WiFi Measurements
Can we build accurate wireless channel models without dense site surveys or detailed 3D maps? I developed WiNeRF, a physics-grounded neural field that learns a continuous, complex-valued wireless channel directly from sparse commodity WiFi CSI.
WiNeRF treats the antenna array's finite angular resolution and phase uncertainty as inductive constraints rather than assuming access to precise propagation geometry. The learned channel can be queried at previously unseen locations and used directly for downstream wireless tasks including beamforming, Angle-of-Arrival estimation, and coverage mapping.
Across approximately 30,000 synchronized CSI and pose measurements collected by a mobile robot in three indoor environments, WiNeRF achieved a 5.3 dB median prediction SNR and improved prediction SNR by approximately 3.0–6.7 dB over prior neural baselines.