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Supervised training of speech recognition models requires access to transcribed audio data, which often is not possible due to confidentiality issues. Our approach to this problem is to generate synthetic audio from a text-only corpus using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Yanis Perrin , Gilles Boulianne

The recent surge in research focused on generating synthetic data from large language models (LLMs), especially for scenarios with limited data availability, marks a notable shift in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xu Guo , Yiqiang Chen

In recent years, the recognition of free-hand sketches has remained a popular task. However, in some special fields such as the military field, free-hand sketches are difficult to sample on a large scale. Common data augmentation and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jiajun Liu , Siyuan Wang , Guangming Zhu , Liang Zhang , Ning Li , Eryang Gao

For successful scene text recognition (STR) models, synthetic text image generators have alleviated the lack of annotated text images from the real world. Specifically, they generate multiple text images with diverse backgrounds, font…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Moonbin Yim , Yoonsik Kim , Han-Cheol Cho , Sungrae Park

In this research, we introduce an innovative method for synthesizing medical images using generative adversarial networks (GANs). Our proposed GANs method demonstrates the capability to produce realistic synthetic images even when trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Yinqiu Feng , Bo Zhang , Lingxi Xiao , Yutian Yang , Tana Gegen , Zexi Chen

Enabling highly secure applications (such as border crossing) with face recognition requires extensive biometric performance tests through large scale data. However, using real face images raises concerns about privacy as the laws do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Marcel Grimmer , Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

The rapid advancement in machine learning has led to a surge in automatic data generation, making it increasingly challenging to differentiate between naturally or human-generated data and machine-generated data. Despite these advancements,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mohamad Elzohbi , Richard Zhao

Keyphrase provides highly-condensed information that can be effectively used for understanding, organizing and retrieving text content. Though previous studies have provided many workable solutions for automated keyphrase extraction, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Rui Meng , Sanqiang Zhao , Shuguang Han , Daqing He , Peter Brusilovsky , Yu Chi

This paper shows how Long Short-term Memory recurrent neural networks can be used to generate complex sequences with long-range structure, simply by predicting one data point at a time. The approach is demonstrated for text (where the data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alex Graves

In this work we present an overview of approaches for the detection and attribution of synthetic images and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. We also point out and discuss hot topics in this field and outline promising directions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Diangarti Tariang , Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

Generating synthetic variants of a document is often posed as text-to-text transformation. We propose an alternate LLM based method that first decomposes a document into semantic frames and then generates text using this interim sparse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Natraj Raman , Sameena Shah

In general, to draw robust conclusions from a dataset, all the analyzed population must be represented on said dataset. Having a dataset that does not fulfill this condition normally leads to selection bias. Additionally, graphs have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Axel Wassington , Sergi Abadal

The emergence of synthetic data represents a pivotal shift in modern machine learning, offering a solution to satisfy the need for large volumes of data in domains where real data is scarce, highly private, or difficult to obtain. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Krisztian Balog , John Palowitch , Barbara Ikica , Filip Radlinski , Hamidreza Alvari , Mehdi Manshadi

Personalized text-to-image generation has attracted unprecedented attention in the recent few years due to its unique capability of generating highly-personalized images via using the input concept dataset and novel textual prompt. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shian Du , Xiaotian Cheng , Qi Qian , Henglu Wei , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Synthetic data generation is gaining increasing popularity in different computer vision applications. Existing state-of-the-art face recognition models are trained using large-scale face datasets, which are crawled from the Internet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

The rapid progress of generative models has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, raising concerns about authenticity and trust in digital media. Detecting such fake content reliably is an urgent challenge. While deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Syed Mehedi Hasan Nirob , Moqsadur Rahman , Shamim Ehsan , Summit Haque

Despite remarkable progress in image generation models, generating realistic hands remains a persistent challenge due to their complex articulation, varying viewpoints, and frequent occlusions. We present FoundHand, a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kefan Chen , Chaerin Min , Linguang Zhang , Shreyas Hampali , Cem Keskin , Srinath Sridhar

We draw a formal connection between using synthetic training data to optimize neural network parameters and approximate, Bayesian, model-based reasoning. In particular, training a neural network using synthetic data can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Tuan Anh Le , Atilim Gunes Baydin , Robert Zinkov , Frank Wood

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

Over the last three to five years, it has become possible to generate machine learning synthetic data for healthcare-related uses. However, concerns have been raised about potential negative factors associated with the possibilities of…