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Generating images from semantic visual knowledge is a challenging task, that can be useful to condition the synthesis process in complex, subtle, and unambiguous ways, compared to alternatives such as class labels or text descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Renato Sortino , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

The difficulty of anonymizing text data hinders the development and deployment of NLP in high-stakes domains that involve private data, such as healthcare and social services. Poorly anonymized sensitive data cannot be easily shared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krithika Ramesh , Nupoor Gandhi , Pulkit Madaan , Lisa Bauer , Charith Peris , Anjalie Field

Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sagnik Das , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ke Ma , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell , Dimitris Samaras

Training machines to synthesize diverse handwritings is an intriguing task. Recently, RNN-based methods have been proposed to generate stylized online Chinese characters. However, these methods mainly focus on capturing a person's overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Gang Dai , Yifan Zhang , Qingfeng Wang , Qing Du , Zhuliang Yu , Zhuoman Liu , Shuangping Huang

Enabling machines to understand structured visuals like slides and user interfaces is essential for making them accessible to people with disabilities. However, achieving such understanding computationally has required manual data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yi-Hao Peng , Faria Huq , Yue Jiang , Jason Wu , Amanda Xin Yue Li , Jeffrey Bigham , Amy Pavel

Machine learning has significant potential for optimizing various industrial processes. However, data acquisition remains a major challenge as it is both time-consuming and costly. Synthetic data offers a promising solution to augment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Georg Rottenwalter , Marcel Tilly , Christian Bielenberg , Katharina Obermeier

With the development of deep neural networks, the demand for a significant amount of annotated training data becomes the performance bottlenecks in many fields of research and applications. Image synthesis can generate annotated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Minghui Liao , Boyu Song , Shangbang Long , Minghang He , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

Using machine learning models to generate synthetic data has become common in many fields. Technology to generate synthetic transactions that can be used to detect fraud is also growing fast. Generally, this synthetic data contains only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Shuo Wang , Terrence Tricco , Xianta Jiang , Charles Robertson , John Hawkin

Low resource Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a hard problem due to the scarce annotated data and the very limited linguistic information (dictionaries and language models). For example, in the case of historical ciphered manuscripts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Ali Furkan Biten , Sounak Dey , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Josep Lladós

Generating code-switched text is a problem of growing interest, especially given the scarcity of corpora containing large volumes of real code-switched text. In this work, we adapt a state-of-the-art neural machine translation model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Ishan Tarunesh , Syamantak Kumar , Preethi Jyothi

Developing meaningful and efficient representations that separate the fundamental structure of the data generation mechanism is crucial in representation learning. However, Disentangled Representation Learning has not fully shown its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Jacopo Dapueto , Nicoletta Noceti , Francesca Odone

Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Denis Zavadski , Damjan Kalšan , Tim Küchler , Haebom Lee , Stefan Roth , Carsten Rother

Low-resource indigenous languages often lack the parallel corpora required for effective neural machine translation (NMT). Synthetic data generation offers a practical strategy for mitigating this limitation in data-scarce settings. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Aashish Dhawan , Christopher Driggers-Ellis , Christan Grant , Daisy Zhe Wang

Automatic character generation is an appealing solution for new typeface design, especially for Chinese typefaces including over 3700 most commonly-used characters. This task has two main pain points: (i) handwritten characters are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chuan Wen , Jie Chang , Ya Zhang , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang , Mei Han , Qi Tian

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to generate synthetic data for training Neural Machine Translation systems. The proposed approach transforms a given parallel corpus between a written language and a target language to a parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Hany Hassan , Mostafa Elaraby , Ahmed Tawfik

Self-supervised learning has recently emerged as a strong alternative in document analysis. These approaches are now capable of learning high-quality image representations and overcoming the limitations of supervised methods, which require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Marwa Dhiaf , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Kai Wang , Yuyang Liu , Yousri Kessentini , Alicia Fornés , Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou

In handwritten character recognition, benchmark database plays an important role in evaluating the performance of various algorithms and the results obtained by various researchers. In Devnagari script, there is lack of such official…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Vikas J. Dongre , Vijay H. Mankar

The performance of a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model depends on various factors, of which the quality of the training data is of utmost importance. Millions of data are collected around the globe for various languages, but resources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Sujitha Sathiyamoorthy , N Mohana , Anusha Prakash , Hema A Murthy

A major challenges of deep learning (DL) is the necessity to collect huge amounts of training data. Often, the lack of a sufficiently large dataset discourages the use of DL in certain applications. Typically, acquiring the required amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Andoni Cortés , Clemente Rodríguez , Gorka Velez , Javier Barandiarán , Marcos Nieto