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Learning robust object detectors from only a handful of images is a critical challenge in industrial vision systems, where collecting high quality training data can take months. Synthetic data has emerged as a key solution for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Brandon Trabucco , Qasim Wani , Benjamin Pikus , Vasu Sharma

Obtaining accurate 3D object poses is vital for numerous computer vision applications, such as 3D reconstruction and scene understanding. However, annotating real-world objects is time-consuming and challenging. While synthetically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiahao Yang , Wufei Ma , Angtian Wang , Xiaoding Yuan , Alan Yuille , Adam Kortylewski

There is a growing interest in developing computer vision methods that can learn from limited supervision. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning to predict camera viewpoints, where obtaining ground-truth annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Octave Mariotti , Hakan Bilen

Recent text-to-image generation models have shown promising results in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Though the results are astonishing to human eyes, how applicable these generated images are for recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Ruifei He , Shuyang Sun , Xin Yu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

In visual interactive labeling, users iteratively assign labels to data items until the machine model reaches an acceptable accuracy. A crucial step of this process is to inspect the model's accuracy and decide whether it is necessary to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Nicolas Grossmann , Jürgen Bernard , Michael Sedlmair , Manuela Waldner

For many fundamental scene understanding tasks, it is difficult or impossible to obtain per-pixel ground truth labels from real images. We address this challenge by introducing Hypersim, a photorealistic synthetic dataset for holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Mike Roberts , Jason Ramapuram , Anurag Ranjan , Atulit Kumar , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nathan Paczan , Russ Webb , Joshua M. Susskind

Recent advances in generative AI, particularly in computer vision (CV), offer new opportunities to optimize workflows across industries, including logistics and manufacturing. However, many AI applications are limited by a lack of expertise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muammer Bay , Timo von Marcard , Dren Fazlija

Driving simulators play a large role in developing and testing new intelligent vehicle systems. The visual fidelity of the simulation is critical for building vision-based algorithms and conducting human driver experiments. Low visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ekim Yurtsever , Dongfang Yang , Ibrahim Mert Koc , Keith A. Redmill

Neural rendering techniques promise efficient photo-realistic image synthesis while at the same time providing rich control over scene parameters by learning the physical image formation process. While several supervised methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Justus Thies , Varun Jampani , Matthias Nießner , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

Deep Learning has seen an unprecedented increase in vision applications since the publication of large-scale object recognition datasets and introduction of scalable compute hardware. State-of-the-art methods for most vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nikita Jaipuria , Xianling Zhang , Rohan Bhasin , Mayar Arafa , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Sagar Manglani , Vidya N. Murali

This paper introduces a novel synthetic dataset that captures urban scenes under a variety of weather conditions, providing pixel-perfect, ground-truth-aligned images to facilitate effective feature alignment across domains. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Javier Montalvo , Roberto Alcover-Couso , Pablo Carballeira , Álvaro García-Martín , Juan C. SanMiguel , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Autonomous driving simulators provide an effective and low-cost alternative for evaluating or enhancing visual perception models. However, the reliability of evaluation depends on the diversity and realism of the generated scenes. Extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Kaibin Zhou , Kaifeng Huang , Hao Deng , Zelin Tao , Ziniu Liu , Lin Zhang , Shengjie Zhao

Accurate lane detection, a crucial enabler for autonomous driving, currently relies on obtaining a large and diverse labeled training dataset. In this work, we explore learning from abundant, randomly generated synthetic data, together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Noa Garnett , Roy Uziel , Netalee Efrat , Dan Levi

Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also to the new lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Benjamin Ummenhofer , Sanskar Agrawal , Rene Sepulveda , Yixing Lao , Kai Zhang , Tianhang Cheng , Stephan Richter , Shenlong Wang , German Ros

The increasing applications of autonomous driving systems necessitates large-scale, high-quality datasets to ensure robust performance across diverse scenarios. Synthetic data has emerged as a viable solution to augment real-world datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Enes Özeren , Arka Bhowmick

Semantic scene understanding is crucial for robotics and computer vision applications. In autonomous driving, 3D semantic segmentation plays an important role for enabling safe navigation. Despite significant advances in the field, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Machine-learning models are increasingly used to predict properties of atoms in chemical systems. There have been major advances in developing descriptors and regression frameworks for this task, typically starting from (relatively) small…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 John L. A. Gardner , Zoé Faure Beaulieu , Volker L. Deringer

Object viewpoint estimation from 2D images is an essential task in computer vision. However, two issues hinder its progress: scarcity of training data with viewpoint annotations, and a lack of powerful features. Inspired by the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Hao Su , Charles R. Qi , Yangyan Li , Leonidas Guibas

Synthetic-to-real transfer learning is a framework in which a synthetically generated dataset is used to pre-train a model to improve its performance on real vision tasks. The most significant advantage of using synthetic images is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hiroaki Mikami , Kenji Fukumizu , Shogo Murai , Shuji Suzuki , Yuta Kikuchi , Taiji Suzuki , Shin-ichi Maeda , Kohei Hayashi