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Wire Detection Dataset

The Wire Detection Dataset accompanies the IROS 2017 paper 'Wire Detection using Synthetic Data and Dilated Convolutional Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (Ratnesh Madaan, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / AirLab). The method targets detection of thin structures such as power lines from unmanned aerial vehicles, and was trained purely on synthetic imagery and evaluated on real video — a sim-to-real transfer result. **What actually ships.** The download (wire-detection-dataset.tar.gz, 1.7 GB via Google Drive) contains a single top-level directory, wires_usf/, holding 3,499 sample folders. Every folder is named as a frame of a source video from the University of South Florida wire/thin-object video collection — the 'candamo.*', 'DSCN*', 'Temp*' and 38 'uvs*' series — so the samples come in long runs of consecutive frames from the same clip rather than as independent stills. The synthetic training images the paper describes are not part of this archive; what is released is the labelled real-video evaluation set. Cameras vary with the source clip: some series are colour ground-level video of power lines against sky, others are low-resolution grayscale. **Per-sample layout.** Each folder contains original_image.png (the frame), labeled_ground_truth.png (pixel labels, 1 = non-wire, 2 = wire), ground_truth_viz.png (a black-and-white visualisation of those labels), and labels.ground (a text file giving the endpoint coordinates of each labelled line segment). Distributed under CC-BY-4.0.

Scale
Not declared
Formats
custom
License
CC-BY-4.0
Published
2017-09-24

Decision summary

Best for

passive_log

Main blocker

Metadata requires review against the official source before publication.

Next check

Read the dataset manifest and feature schema.

Catalog assessment

Selection evidence

75/100

Provisional · confidence 26 · 1/6 evaluated

Access and governance

Access and license are declared by the source.

usefulfit 75 · confidence 85

Schema and signal coverage

No machine-readable schema has been verified yet.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Policy training readiness

Observation/action alignment has not been established.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15
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World-model readiness

World-model observation, geometry, or temporal semantics are not verified.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Failure and recovery readiness

No verified failure/recovery annotation evidence is available yet.

unknownnot scored · confidence 15

Download and processing readiness

Dataset scale and sampling path are unknown.

unknownnot scored · confidence 10
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Signal gaps

  • Action / hand pose / robot state. Not enough evidence is available to classify this signal.
  • Gaze / attention. Not enough evidence is available to classify this signal.

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  • Run a bounded sample audit before assigning Strong readiness.

Record specifics

Dataset facts

Source
CMU AirLab
Evidence
secondary claim
Formats
custom
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Metadata coverage

Loop signals

5/7 present or partial

Action / hand pose / robot state

No decision-grade evidence captured yet.

unknown
Gaze / attention

No decision-grade evidence captured yet.

unknown
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Observation / ego video

video · The Wire Detection Dataset accompanies the IROS 2017 paper 'Wire Detection using Synthetic Data and Dilated Convolutional Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (Ratnesh Madaan, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / AirLab). The method targets detection of thin structures such as power lines from unmanned aerial vehicles, and was trained purely on synthetic imagery and evaluated on real video — a sim-to-real transfer result. **What actually ships.** The download (wire-detection-dataset.tar.gz, 1.7 GB via Google Drive) contains a single top-level directory, wires_usf/, holding 3,499 sample folders. Every folder is named as a frame of a source video from the University of South Florida wire/thin-object video collection — the 'candamo.*', 'DSCN*', 'Temp*' and 38 'uvs*' series — so the samples come in long runs of consecutive frames from the same clip rather than as independent stills. The synthetic training images the paper describes are not part of this archive; what is released is the labelled real-video evaluation set. Cameras vary with the source clip: some series are colour ground-level video of power lines against sky, others are low-resolution grayscale. **Per-sample layout.** Each folder contains original_image.png (the frame), labeled_ground_truth.png (pixel labels, 1 = non-wire, 2 = wire), ground_truth_viz.png (a black-and-white visualisation of those labels), and labels.ground (a text file giving the endpoint coordinates of each labelled line segment). Distributed under CC-BY-4.0.

present
Language intent / task phase

The Wire Detection Dataset accompanies the IROS 2017 paper 'Wire Detection using Synthetic Data and Dilated Convolutional Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (Ratnesh Madaan, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / AirLab). The method targets detection of thin structures such as power lines from unmanned aerial vehicles, and was trained purely on synthetic imagery and evaluated on real video — a sim-to-real transfer result. **What actually ships.** The download (wire-detection-dataset.tar.gz, 1.7 GB via Google Drive) contains a single top-level directory, wires_usf/, holding 3,499 sample folders. Every folder is named as a frame of a source video from the University of South Florida wire/thin-object video collection — the 'candamo.*', 'DSCN*', 'Temp*' and 38 'uvs*' series — so the samples come in long runs of consecutive frames from the same clip rather than as independent stills. The synthetic training images the paper describes are not part of this archive; what is released is the labelled real-video evaluation set. Cameras vary with the source clip: some series are colour ground-level video of power lines against sky, others are low-resolution grayscale. **Per-sample layout.** Each folder contains original_image.png (the frame), labeled_ground_truth.png (pixel labels, 1 = non-wire, 2 = wire), ground_truth_viz.png (a black-and-white visualisation of those labels), and labels.ground (a text file giving the endpoint coordinates of each labelled line segment). Distributed under CC-BY-4.0.

partial
Feedback / correction / failure

The Wire Detection Dataset accompanies the IROS 2017 paper 'Wire Detection using Synthetic Data and Dilated Convolutional Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (Ratnesh Madaan, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / AirLab). The method targets detection of thin structures such as power lines from unmanned aerial vehicles, and was trained purely on synthetic imagery and evaluated on real video — a sim-to-real transfer result. **What actually ships.** The download (wire-detection-dataset.tar.gz, 1.7 GB via Google Drive) contains a single top-level directory, wires_usf/, holding 3,499 sample folders. Every folder is named as a frame of a source video from the University of South Florida wire/thin-object video collection — the 'candamo.*', 'DSCN*', 'Temp*' and 38 'uvs*' series — so the samples come in long runs of consecutive frames from the same clip rather than as independent stills. The synthetic training images the paper describes are not part of this archive; what is released is the labelled real-video evaluation set. Cameras vary with the source clip: some series are colour ground-level video of power lines against sky, others are low-resolution grayscale. **Per-sample layout.** Each folder contains original_image.png (the frame), labeled_ground_truth.png (pixel labels, 1 = non-wire, 2 = wire), ground_truth_viz.png (a black-and-white visualisation of those labels), and labels.ground (a text file giving the endpoint coordinates of each labelled line segment). Distributed under CC-BY-4.0.

present
Sim-real pairing

simulation · The Wire Detection Dataset accompanies the IROS 2017 paper 'Wire Detection using Synthetic Data and Dilated Convolutional Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (Ratnesh Madaan, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University / AirLab). The method targets detection of thin structures such as power lines from unmanned aerial vehicles, and was trained purely on synthetic imagery and evaluated on real video — a sim-to-real transfer result. **What actually ships.** The download (wire-detection-dataset.tar.gz, 1.7 GB via Google Drive) contains a single top-level directory, wires_usf/, holding 3,499 sample folders. Every folder is named as a frame of a source video from the University of South Florida wire/thin-object video collection — the 'candamo.*', 'DSCN*', 'Temp*' and 38 'uvs*' series — so the samples come in long runs of consecutive frames from the same clip rather than as independent stills. The synthetic training images the paper describes are not part of this archive; what is released is the labelled real-video evaluation set. Cameras vary with the source clip: some series are colour ground-level video of power lines against sky, others are low-resolution grayscale. **Per-sample layout.** Each folder contains original_image.png (the frame), labeled_ground_truth.png (pixel labels, 1 = non-wire, 2 = wire), ground_truth_viz.png (a black-and-white visualisation of those labels), and labels.ground (a text file giving the endpoint coordinates of each labelled line segment). Distributed under CC-BY-4.0.

present
License / format / access

Open · CC-BY-4.0 · custom

partial
Evidence details and provenance

Official signal claims

SegmentationVideo

Schema and annotations

No machine-readable schema facts are captured.

Sample verification

Pending. Metadata does not prove sample coverage, alignment, or file integrity.

curated official source

Integration notes

  • Metadata requires review against the official source before publication.

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