Video-to-Model Data Set

This data set belongs to the paper "Video-to-Model: Unsupervised Trace Extraction from Videos for Process Discovery and Conformance Checking in Manual Assembly", submitted on March 24, 2020, to the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM).

Abstract: Manual activities are often hidden deep down in discrete manufacturing processes. For the elicitation and optimization of process behavior, complete information about the execution of Manual activities are required. Thus, an approach is presented on how execution level information can be extracted from videos in manual assembly. The goal is the generation of a log that can be used in state-of-the-art process mining tools. The test bed for the system was lightweight and scalable consisting of an assembly workstation equipped with a single RGB camera recording only the hand movements of the worker from top. A neural network based real-time object classifier was trained to detect the worker’s hands. The hand detector delivers the input for an algorithm, which generates trajectories reflecting the movement paths of the hands. Those trajectories are automatically assigned to work steps using the position of material boxes on the assembly shelf as reference points and hierarchical clustering of similar behaviors with dynamic time warping. The system has been evaluated in a task-based study with ten participants in a laboratory, but under realistic conditions. The generated logs have been loaded into the process mining toolkit ProM to discover the underlying process model and to detect deviations from both, instructions and ground truth, using conformance checking. The results show that process mining delivers insights about the assembly process and the system’s precision.

The data set contains the generated and the annotated logs based on the video material gathered during the user study. In addition, the petri nets from the process discovery and conformance checking conducted with ProM (http://www.promtools.org) and the reference nets modeled with Yasper (http://www.yasper.org/) are provided.