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

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The paper introduces WireSeg-32k, a synthetic dataset for wire/cable instance segmentation containing 32,000 RGB images with instance masks and depth maps, plus a labeled real-world test set. Its DeformX co-simulation pipeline couples Cosserat-rod dynamics with photorealistic Isaac Sim rendering to produce physically plausible, contact-consistent wire shapes. As a simple baseline, LoRA fine-tuning SAM3 on WireSeg-32k alone improves real-world mAP@75 by 10.2% over the off-the-shelf model, showing that physics-grounded synthetic data can transfer to real wire perception. The paper is accepted at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Synthetic Data for Computer Vision.

SourcearXiv Computer VisionAuthor: Zilin Dai, Lehong Wang, Yi Yang, Xiang Fei
WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation
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Title:WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation

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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. Existing resources either focus on cable tracing or semantic segmentation under constrained settings, or generate visually plausible images without physically grounded wire deformation. We present WireSeg-32k, a synthetic dataset for wire instance segmentation with 32,000 RGB images, instance masks, depth maps, and a complementary real-world test set with annotations. To generate this dataset, we develop DeformX, a co-simulation pipeline that couples Cosserat-rod dynamics with photorealistic Isaac Sim rendering, enabling physically plausible, contact-consistent wire shapes, CAD-based wire assets, and diverse visually grounded scenes. As a simple baseline, LoRA fine-tuning SAM3 on WireSeg-32k alone improves real-world mAP@75 by 10.2% over the off-the-shelf model, showing that physically grounded synthetic data can transfer to real wire perception.

Comments: Synthetic Data for Computer Vision @ CVPR 2026 Workshop

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

Cite as: arXiv:2609.03102 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2609.03102v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.03102

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From: Xiang Fei [view email] [v1] Wed, 2 Sep 2026 19:28:24 UTC (9,728 KB)

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  • WireSeg-32k provides 32,000 RGB images with instance masks and depth maps, plus a labeled real-world test set.
  • DeformX couples Cosserat-rod dynamics with Isaac Sim rendering to generate physically grounded, contact-consistent wire shapes.
  • LoRA fine-tuning SAM3 on WireSeg-32k alone improves real-world mAP@75 by 10.2% over the off-the-shelf model.
  • The work by Zilin Dai and co-authors appears at the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Synthetic Data for Computer Vision (arXiv:2609.03102).

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