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Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Thomas Wallace , Ik Siong Heng , Senad Subasic , Chris Messenger

Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zuxuan Wu , Xintong Han , Yen-Liang Lin , Mustafa Gkhan Uzunbas , Tom Goldstein , Ser Nam Lim , Larry S. Davis

Ensuring the realism of computer-generated synthetic images is crucial to deep neural network (DNN) training. Due to different semantic distributions between synthetic and real-world captured datasets, there exists semantic mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ganning Zhao , Tingwei Shen , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In this work, we study the problem of training deep networks for semantic image segmentation using only a fraction of annotated images, which may significantly reduce human annotation efforts. Particularly, we propose a strategy that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Aniket Agarwal , Jose Dolz , Christian Desrosiers

The availability of large image data sets has been a crucial factor in the success of deep learning-based classification and detection methods. While data sets for everyday objects are widely available, data for specific industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Matthew Z. Wong , Kiyohito Kunii , Max Baylis , Wai Hong Ong , Pavel Kroupa , Swen Koller

Recent advancements in medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) have greatly enhanced diagnostic capabilities, but the development of effective deep learning (DL) models is still constrained by the lack of high-quality annotated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Amir Syahmi , Xiangrong Lu , Yinxuan Li , Haoxuan Yao , Hanjun Jiang , Ishita Acharya , Shiyi Wang , Yang Nan , Xiaodan Xing , Guang Yang

Synthetic augmentation is increasingly used to mitigate data scarcity in financial machine learning, yet its statistical role remains poorly understood. We formalize synthetic augmentation as a modification of the effective training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mel Sohm , Charles Dezons , Sami Sellami , Oscar Ninou , Axel Pincon

Real-world training data usually exhibits long-tailed distribution, where several majority classes have a significantly larger number of samples than the remaining minority classes. This imbalance degrades the performance of typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Shuang Li , Kaixiong Gong , Chi Harold Liu , Yulin Wang , Feng Qiao , Xinjing Cheng

One of the growing trends in machine learning is the use of data generation techniques, since the performance of machine learning models is dependent on the quantity of the training dataset. However, in many real-world applications,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yasaman Haghbin , Hadi Moradi , Reshad Hosseini

New advancements for the detection of synthetic images are critical for fighting disinformation, as the capabilities of generative AI models continuously evolve and can lead to hyper-realistic synthetic imagery at unprecedented scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Pantelis Dogoulis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Large annotated datasets are vital for training segmentation models, but pixel-level labeling is time-consuming, error-prone, and often requires scarce expert annotators, especially in medical imaging. In contrast, coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Le Zhang , Fuping Wu , Arun Thirunavukarasu , Kevin Bronik , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

The success of deep learning in computer vision is based on availability of large annotated datasets. To lower the need for hand labeled images, virtually rendered 3D worlds have recently gained popularity. Creating realistic 3D content is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

In recent years, deep learning models have resulted in a huge amount of progress in various areas, including computer vision. By nature, the supervised training of deep models requires a large amount of data to be available. This ideal case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Farzan Erlik Nowruzi , Prince Kapoor , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Fahed Al Hassanat , Robert Laganiere , Julien Rebut

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based accurate prediction typically requires large-scale annotated training data. In Medical Imaging, however, both obtaining medical data and annotating them by expert physicians are challenging; to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Changhee Han , Kohei Murao , Shin'ichi Satoh , Hideki Nakayama

Image annotation is one of the most essential tasks for guaranteeing proper treatment for patients and tracking progress over the course of therapy in the field of medical imaging and disease diagnosis. However, manually annotating a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Md Abdul Kadir , Hasan Md Tusfiqur Alam , Pascale Maul , Hans-Jürgen Profitlich , Moritz Wolf , Daniel Sonntag

Collecting annotated data for semantic segmentation is time-consuming and hard to scale up. In this paper, we for the first time propose a unified framework, termed as Multi-Dataset Pretraining, to take full advantage of the fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Haohang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

For safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, CNNs have to be robust with respect to unavoidable image corruptions, such as image noise. While previous works addressed the task of robust prediction in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Christoph Kamann , Burkhard Güssefeld , Robin Hutmacher , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Carsten Rother

Image generation abilities of text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced, yielding highly photo-realistic images from descriptive text and increasing the viability of leveraging synthetic images to train computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiahui Chen , Amy Zhang , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Data augmentation is a popular technique which helps improve generalization capabilities of deep neural networks. It plays a pivotal role in remote-sensing scenarios in which the amount of high-quality ground truth data is limited, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jakub Nalepa , Michal Myller , Michal Kawulok