CSI-Bench: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Dataset for Multi-task WiFi Sensing
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Abstract (arXiv)
WiFi sensing has emerged as a compelling contactless modality for human activity monitoring by capturing fine-grained variations in Channel State Information (CSI). Its ability to operate continuously and non-intrusively while preserving user privacy makes it particularly suitable for health monitoring. However, existing WiFi sensing systems struggle to generalize in real-world settings, largely due to datasets collected in controlled environments with homogeneous hardware and fragmented, session-based recordings that fail to reflect continuous daily activity. We present CSI-Bench, a large-scale, in-the-wild benchmark dataset collected using commercial WiFi edge devices across 26 diverse indoor environments with 35 real users. Spanning over 461 hours of effective data, CSI-Bench captures realistic signal variability under natural conditions. It includes task-specific datasets for fall detection, breathing monitoring, localization, and motion source recognition, as well as a co-labeled multitask dataset with joint annotations for user identity, activity, and proximity. To support the development of robust and generalizable models, CSI-Bench provides standardized evaluation splits and baseline results for both single-task and multi-task learning. CSI-Bench offers a foundation for scalable, privacy-preserving WiFi sensing systems in health and broader human-centric applications.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 6.
9 papers.
- 2026AM-FM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Intelligence Through WiFicited by 4
- 2026CSI-JEPA: Towards Foundation Representations for Ubiquitous Sensing with Minimal Supervisioncited by 2
- 2025Chorus: Harmonizing Context and Sensing Signals for Data-Free Model Customization in IoTcited by 1
- 2025Towards Trustworthy Wi-Fi CSI-based Sensing: Systematic Evaluation of Adversarial Robustnesscited by 0
- 2025FuseFi: Combining Irregularly Sampled CSI from Diverse Communication Packets and Frequency Bands for Wi-Fi Sensingcited by 0
- 2026FSTC-Encoder: Feature--Spatial--Temporal Correlation Learning for Generalizable RF Sensingcited by 0
- 2026Wireless Foundation Models: State-of-the-Art and Open Challengescited by 0
- 2026CSI-Agent: LLM-Assisted Few-Shot Adaptation for Cross-Domain Wi-Fi CSI Sensingcited by 0
- 2026UniCSI Towards a Universal Wi-Fi CSI Encoder for Ubiquitous Human Sensingcited by 0
- 2026UniCSI Towards a Universal Wi-Fi CSI Encoder for Ubiquitous Human Sensing7 Oct 2026
- 2026CSI-Agent: LLM-Assisted Few-Shot Adaptation for Cross-Domain Wi-Fi CSI Sensing25 Sep 2026
- 2026Wireless Foundation Models: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges4 Sep 2026
- 2026FSTC-Encoder: Feature--Spatial--Temporal Correlation Learning for Generalizable RF Sensing9 Aug 2026
- 2026CSI-JEPA: Towards Foundation Representations for Ubiquitous Sensing with Minimal Supervision13 May 2026
- 2026AM-FM: A Foundation Model for Ambient Intelligence Through WiFi4 Feb 2026
- 2025Chorus: Harmonizing Context and Sensing Signals for Data-Free Model Customization in IoT17 Dec 2025
- 2025FuseFi: Combining Irregularly Sampled CSI from Diverse Communication Packets and Frequency Bands for Wi-Fi Sensing14 Dec 2025
- 2025Towards Trustworthy Wi-Fi CSI-based Sensing: Systematic Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness25 Nov 2025