WHAR Datasets: An Open Source Library for Wearable Human Activity Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16604v2
• Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:00:50 GMT
• Title: WHAR Datasets: An Open Source Library for Wearable Human Activity Recognition
• Authors: Maximilian Burzer, Tobias King, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, Tobias Röddiger,
• Abstract summary: We introduce WHAR datasets, an open-source library designed to simplify WHAR data handling.<n>The library currently supports 9 widely-used datasets, integrates with PyTorch and is easily to new datasets.
• Score: 5.46517570496579
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The lack of standardization across Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) datasets limits reproducibility, comparability, and research efficiency. We introduce WHAR datasets, an open-source library designed to simplify WHAR data handling through a standardized data format and a configuration-driven design, enabling reproducible and computationally efficient workflows with minimal manual intervention. The library currently supports 9 widely-used datasets, integrates with PyTorch and TensorFlow, and is easily extensible to new datasets. To demonstrate its utility, we trained two state-of-the-art models, TinyHar and MLP-HAR, on the included datasets, approximately reproducing published results and validating the library's effectiveness for experimentation and benchmarking. Additionally, we evaluated preprocessing performance and observed speedups of up to 3.8x using multiprocessing. We hope this library contributes to more efficient, reproducible, and comparable WHAR research.

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