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Existing sensing systems address only binary presence detection and cannot assess whether safety harnesses are anchored in compliance with regulatory requirements. This paper proposes YOLO-ILB, a lightweight task-specific object detector built on YOLO11n with three targeted improvements. The C3k2_IDWC module replaces standard convolutions with multi-branch Inception depthwise convolutions, improving multi-scale feature discrimination at reduced computational cost. The SPPF_LSKA module embeds large separable kernel attention into the SPPF aggregation path, strengthening global context awareness to suppress scaffold background interference. A BiFPN neck replaces the original PAN structure, enabling bidirectional cross-scale weighted feature fusion to balance detection of small hooks and large harnesses within a sin gle image. A UAV-based sensing dataset was constructed using a DJI Mini 3 Pro (4032 \u00d7 3024 px) across 17 real construction sites under varied altitudes, viewing angles, and illumination conditions, yielding 2700 annotated images across five object categories. YOLO-ILB achieves mAP50 = 0.939 with only 1.923 M parameters and 5.7 G FLOPs at 262.3 FPS, outperforming eight mainstream YOLO baselines while remaining deployable on resource-constrained edge computing nodes. A geometry-based compliance algorithm further classifies three harness anchoring states\u2014correct high anchoring, incorrect low anchoring, and unclipped or excessively distant hook\u2014without additional sensors or annotations, achieving 90.82% overall accuracy on 305 field instances and extending the sensing system from presence detection to regulatory compliance assessment.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s26134147","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T10:41:01Z","timestamp":1782902461000},"page":"4147","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A Vision-Based Sensing Framework for PPE Detection and Safety Harness Compliance Recognition in High-Formwork Construction Environments Using YOLO-ILB"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6027-3367","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gang","family":"Yao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering in Mountain Area, Chongqing 400045, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering in Mountain Area, Chongqing 400045, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1154-0112","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering in Mountain Area, Chongqing 400045, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-1391-6474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Safety and Resilience of Civil Engineering in Mountain Area, Chongqing 400045, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2023). 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