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Main Authors: Rahman, Miftahur, Adebayo, Samuel, Acevedo-Mejia, Dorian A., Hester, David, McPolin, Daniel, Rafferty, Karen, Laefer, Debra F.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03098
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author Rahman, Miftahur
Adebayo, Samuel
Acevedo-Mejia, Dorian A.
Hester, David
McPolin, Daniel
Rafferty, Karen
Laefer, Debra F.
author_facet Rahman, Miftahur
Adebayo, Samuel
Acevedo-Mejia, Dorian A.
Hester, David
McPolin, Daniel
Rafferty, Karen
Laefer, Debra F.
contents The Intermeshed Steel Connection (ISC) system, when paired with robotic manipulators, can accelerate steel-frame assembly and improve worker safety by eliminating manual assembly. Dependable perception is one of the initial stages for ISC-aware robots. However, this is hampered by the absence of a dedicated image corpus, as collecting photographs on active construction sites is logistically difficult and raises safety and privacy concerns. In response, we introduce ISC-Perception, the first hybrid dataset expressly designed for ISC component detection. It blends procedurally rendered CAD images, game-engine photorealistic scenes, and a limited, curated set of real photographs, enabling fully automatic labelling of the synthetic portion. We explicitly account for all human effort to produce the dataset, including simulation engine and scene setup, asset preparation, post-processing scripts and quality checks; our total human time to generate a 10,000-image dataset was 30.5,h versus 166.7,h for manual labelling at 60,s per image (-81.7%). A manual pilot on a representative image with five instances of ISC members took 60,s (maximum 80,s), anchoring the manual baseline. Detectors trained on ISC-Perception achieved a mean Average Precision at IoU 0.50 of 0.756, substantially surpassing models trained on synthetic-only or photorealistic-only data. On a 1,200-frame bench test, we report mAP@0.50/mAP@[0.50:0.95] of 0.943/0.823. By bridging the data gap for construction-robotics perception, ISC-Perception facilitates rapid development of custom object detectors and is freely available for research and industrial use upon request.
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spellingShingle ISC-Perception: A Hybrid Computer Vision Dataset for Object Detection in Novel Steel Assembly
Rahman, Miftahur
Adebayo, Samuel
Acevedo-Mejia, Dorian A.
Hester, David
McPolin, Daniel
Rafferty, Karen
Laefer, Debra F.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
The Intermeshed Steel Connection (ISC) system, when paired with robotic manipulators, can accelerate steel-frame assembly and improve worker safety by eliminating manual assembly. Dependable perception is one of the initial stages for ISC-aware robots. However, this is hampered by the absence of a dedicated image corpus, as collecting photographs on active construction sites is logistically difficult and raises safety and privacy concerns. In response, we introduce ISC-Perception, the first hybrid dataset expressly designed for ISC component detection. It blends procedurally rendered CAD images, game-engine photorealistic scenes, and a limited, curated set of real photographs, enabling fully automatic labelling of the synthetic portion. We explicitly account for all human effort to produce the dataset, including simulation engine and scene setup, asset preparation, post-processing scripts and quality checks; our total human time to generate a 10,000-image dataset was 30.5,h versus 166.7,h for manual labelling at 60,s per image (-81.7%). A manual pilot on a representative image with five instances of ISC members took 60,s (maximum 80,s), anchoring the manual baseline. Detectors trained on ISC-Perception achieved a mean Average Precision at IoU 0.50 of 0.756, substantially surpassing models trained on synthetic-only or photorealistic-only data. On a 1,200-frame bench test, we report mAP@0.50/mAP@[0.50:0.95] of 0.943/0.823. By bridging the data gap for construction-robotics perception, ISC-Perception facilitates rapid development of custom object detectors and is freely available for research and industrial use upon request.
title ISC-Perception: A Hybrid Computer Vision Dataset for Object Detection in Novel Steel Assembly
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03098