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Over the past few years there has been major progress in the field of synthetic data generation using simulation based techniques. These methods use high-end graphics engines and physics-based ray-tracing rendering in order to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Paul Yudkin , Eli Friedman , Orly Zvitia , Gil Elbaz

We present a generative document-specific approach to character analysis and recognition in text lines. Our main idea is to build on unsupervised multi-object segmentation methods and in particular those that reconstruct images based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ioannis Siglidis , Nicolas Gonthier , Julien Gaubil , Tom Monnier , Mathieu Aubry

In the application of face recognition, eyeglasses could significantly degrade the recognition accuracy. A feasible method is to collect large-scale face images with eyeglasses for training deep learning methods. However, it is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jianzhu Guo , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

A common and effective means for improving language model capabilities involves finetuning a ``student'' language model's parameters on generations from a more proficient ``teacher'' model. Termed ``synthetic data'', these generations are…

Scene text recognition plays an important role in many computer vision applications. The small size of available public available scene text datasets is the main challenge when training a text recognition CNN model. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Xiaohang Ren , Kai Chen , Jun Sun

Grammatical error correction, like other machine learning tasks, greatly benefits from large quantities of high quality training data, which is typically expensive to produce. While writing a program to automatically generate realistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Sudhanshu Kasewa , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

Many localized languages struggle to reap the benefits of recent advancements in character recognition systems due to the lack of substantial amount of labeled training data. This is due to the difficulty in generating large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Sandaru Jayasekara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Suranga Seneviratne , Ranga Rodrigo

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, an off-the-shelf image generator can be applied to synthesize additional training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

Synthetic data is a powerful tool in training data hungry deep learning algorithms. However, to date, camera-based physiological sensing has not taken full advantage of these techniques. In this work, we leverage a high-fidelity synthetics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Daniel McDuff , Xin Liu , Javier Hernandez , Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis

Large-scale clinical data is invaluable to driving many computational scientific advances today. However, understandable concerns regarding patient privacy hinder the open dissemination of such data and give rise to suboptimal siloed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Oren Melamud , Chaitanya Shivade

Large amounts of labeled data are urgently required for the training of robust text recognizers. However, collecting handwriting data of diverse styles, along with an immense lexicon, is considerably expensive. Although data synthesis is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Canjie Luo , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Zhe Li , Dezhi Peng

In the field of deep learning applied to face recognition, securing large-scale, high-quality datasets is vital for attaining precise and reliable results. However, amassing significant volumes of high-quality real data faces hurdles such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Omer Granoviter , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Orly Zvitia

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on huge amounts of textual data, and concerns have been raised that the limits of such data may soon be reached. A potential solution is to train on synthetic data sampled from LLMs. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jannek Ulm , Kevin Du , Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

This paper extensively investigates the effectiveness of synthetic training data to improve the capabilities of vision-and-language models for grounding textual descriptions to image regions. We explore various strategies to best generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ruozhen He , Ziyan Yang , Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Alexander C. Berg , Vicente Ordonez

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

Large-scale robot datasets have facilitated the learning of a wide range of robot manipulation skills, but these datasets remain difficult to collect and scale further, owing to the intractable amount of human time, effort, and cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masoud Moghani , Mahdi Azizian , Animesh Garg , Yuke Zhu , Sean Huver , Ajay Mandlekar

Collecting high-quality training data is essential for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). However, acquiring such data is often costly and time-consuming, especially for non-English languages such as Italian. Recently, researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Tommaso Romano , Samira Maghool , Paolo Ceravolo

Privacy concerns have attracted increasing attention in data-driven products due to the tendency of machine learning models to memorize sensitive training data. Generating synthetic versions of such data with a formal privacy guarantee,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xiang Yue , Huseyin A. Inan , Xuechen Li , Girish Kumar , Julia McAnallen , Hoda Shajari , Huan Sun , David Levitan , Robert Sim

In a world of digitization, optical character recognition holds the automation to written history. Optical character recognition system basically converts printed images into editable texts for better storage and usability. To be completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Abu Saleh Md. Abir , Sanjana Rahman , Samia Ellin , Maisha Farzana , Md Hridoy Manik , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman

This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic