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IFCNet: A Benchmark Dataset for IFC Entity Classification

17 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.09712archive 2025-07-28

Christoph Emunds, Nicolas Pauen, Veronika Richter, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck

Enhancing interoperability and information exchange between domain-specific software products for BIM is an important aspect in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations industry. Recent research started investigating methods from the areas of machine and deep learning for semantic enrichment of BIM models. However, training and evaluation of these machine learning algorithms requires sufficiently large and comprehensive datasets. This work presents IFCNet, a dataset of single-entity IFC files spanning a broad range of IFC classes containing both geometric and semantic information. Using only the geometric information of objects, the experiments show that three different deep learning models are able to achieve good classification performance.

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ClassificationDeep LearningIFC Entity Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore MVCNN Balanced Accuracy 85.54 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore MVCNN F1 Score 86.93 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore MeshNet Balanced Accuracy 83.32 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore MeshNet F1 Score 85.72 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore DGCNN Balanced Accuracy 79.11 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
IFC Entity Classification IFCNetCore DGCNN F1 Score 82.15 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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