A Sensing Dataset Protocol for Benchmarking and Multi-Task Wireless Sensing

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Sensing Dataset Protocol (SDP), a standardized framework for large-scale wireless sensing that unifies heterogeneous signals, enabling fair benchmarking and improving reproducibility across various sensing tasks.

Contribution

The paper presents SDP, a novel protocol and benchmark framework that standardizes wireless sensing data processing and evaluation, facilitating fair comparison and reproducibility.

Findings

SDP reduces variance by approximately 88% across seeds.

SDP maintains competitive accuracy and latency.

A unified benchmark for detection, recognition, and vital-sign estimation is established.

Abstract

Wireless sensing has become a fundamental enabler for intelligent environments, supporting applications such as human detection, activity recognition, localization, and vital sign monitoring. Despite rapid advances, existing datasets and pipelines remain fragmented across sensing modalities, hindering fair comparison, transfer, and reproducibility. We propose the Sensing Dataset Protocol (SDP), a protocol-level specification and benchmark framework for large-scale wireless sensing. SDP defines how heterogeneous wireless signals are mapped into a unified perception data-block schema through lightweight synchronization, frequency-time alignment, and resampling, while a Canonical Polyadic-Alternating Least Squares (CP-ALS) pooling stage provides a task-agnostic representation that preserves multipath, spectral, and temporal structures. Built upon this protocol, a unified benchmark is established for detection, recognition, and vital-sign estimation with consistent preprocessing, training, and evaluation. Experiments under the cross-user split demonstrate that SDP significantly reduces variance (approximately 88%) across seeds while maintaining competitive accuracy and latency, confirming its value as a reproducible foundation for multi-modal and multitask sensing research.