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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

DaRA Dataset: Combining Wearable Sensors, Location Tracking, and Process Knowledge for Enhanced Human Activity and Human Context Recognition in Warehousing.

Friedrich Niemann, Fernando Moya Rueda, Moh'd Khier Al Kfari, Nilah Ravi Nair, Dustin Schauten, Veronika Kretschmer, Stefan Lüdtke, Alice Kirchheim

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Friedrich NiemannChair of Material Handling and Warehousing, TU Dortmund University, LogistikCampus, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 2-4, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4827-3206
Fernando Moya RuedaMotionMiners GmbH, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8115-5968
Moh'd Khier Al KfariInstitute for Visual and Analytic Computing, University of Rostock, 18055 Rostock, Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-1783-0675
Nilah Ravi NairChair of Material Handling and Warehousing, TU Dortmund University, LogistikCampus, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 2-4, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9576-0296
Dustin SchautenMotionMiners GmbH, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-5138-5991
Veronika KretschmerFraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2833-4163
Stefan LüdtkeInstitute for Visual and Analytic Computing, University of Rostock, 18055 Rostock, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1488-4236
Alice KirchheimChair of Material Handling and Warehousing, TU Dortmund University, LogistikCampus, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 2-4, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8529-425X

Funding

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) K5072230MA3, 766 KK5110002MA3, KK5526202MA3Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space of Germany and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract

Understanding human movement in industrial environments requires more than simple step counts-it demands contextual information to interpret activities and enhance workflows. Key factors such as location and process context are essential. However, research on context-sensitive human activity recognition is limited by the lack of publicly available datasets that include both human movement and contextual labels. Our work introduces the DaRA dataset to address this research gap. DaRA comprises over 109 h of video footage, including 32 h from wearable first-person cameras and 77 h from fixed third-person cameras. In a laboratory environment replicating a realistic warehouse, scenarios such as order picking, packaging, unpacking, and storage were captured. The movements of 18 subjects were captured using inertial measurement units, Bluetooth devices for indoor localization, wearable first-person cameras, and fixed third-person cameras. DaRA offers detailed annotations with 12 class categories and 207 class labels covering human movements and contextual information such as process steps and locations. A total of 15 annotators and 8 revisers contributed over 1572 h in annotation and 361 h in revision. High label quality is reflected in Light's Kappa values ranging from 78.27% to 99.88%. Therefore, DaRA provides a robust, multimodal foundation for human activity and context recognition in industrial settings.

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Human ActivitiesWearable Electronic DevicesHumansMovementVideo RecordingBluetoothdatasetfirst-person viewhuman activity recognitionhuman context recognitioninertial measurement unitlogisticsthird-person viewvideowearable

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PMID41600532
PMCPMC12846308

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