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New synthetic dataset WireSeg-32K improves wire instance segmentation

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Researchers have introduced WireSeg-32K, a synthetic dataset designed to improve wire instance segmentation. This dataset comprises 32,000 images with instance masks and depth maps, generated using a co-simulation pipeline called DeformX. DeformX couples Cosserat-rod dynamics with NVIDIA Isaac Sim for physically plausible wire deformations and realistic rendering. Initial experiments show that fine-tuning the SAM3 model with LoRA on WireSeg-32K significantly enhances its performance on real-world wire perception tasks. AI

IMPACT This dataset could advance research in robotic manipulation and automated systems requiring precise wire handling.

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New synthetic dataset WireSeg-32K improves wire instance segmentation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zilin Dai, Lehong Wang, Yi Yang, Xiang Fei ·

    WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation

    arXiv:2609.03102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deformable linear objects such as wires and cables are difficult to segment because they are thin, highly deformable, and frequently self-occluded, while large-scale instance-level annotations are expensive to obtain in real scenes.…

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