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Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated great success in the past several years. However, most of the scenarios focus on simulated environments. One of the main challenges of transferring the policy learned in a simulated environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ya-Yen Tsai , Hui Xu , Zihan Ding , Chong Zhang , Edward Johns , Bidan Huang

Leveraging synthetically rendered data offers great potential to improve monocular depth estimation and other geometric estimation tasks, but closing the synthetic-real domain gap is a non-trivial and important task. While much recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong , Daeyun Shin , Charless Fowlkes

Domain randomization (DR) is widely used in policy learning to improve robustness to modeling error, but remains underexplored in contact-rich sampling-based predictive control (SPC), where rollout quality is highly sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sergio A. Esteban , Junheng Li , Vince Kurtz , Aaron D. Ames

Domain randomization (DR) is a successful technique for learning robust policies for robot systems, when the dynamics of the target robot system are unknown. The success of policies trained with domain randomization however, is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Melissa Mozifian , Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

How to explore corner cases as efficiently and thoroughly as possible has long been one of the top concerns in the context of deep reinforcement learning (DeepRL) autonomous driving. Training with simulated data is less costly and dangerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Haoyi Niu , Jianming Hu , Zheyu Cui , Yi Zhang

Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is continuing an active research field nowadays for high dimensional data. It aims to estimate the central subspace (CS) without making distributional assumption. To overcome the large-$p$-small-$n$…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-22 Hung Hung , Su-Yun Huang

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is gaining increased attention due to its realistic content, for not only regular displays but also smartphones. Before sufficient HDR content is distributed, HDR visualization still relies mostly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Guan-Ming Su , Irene Cheng

We explore two primary classes of approaches to dimensionality reduction (DR): Independent Dimensionality Reduction (IDR) and Simultaneous Dimensionality Reduction (SDR). In IDR methods, of which Principal Components Analysis is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-28 Eslam Abdelaleem , Ahmed Roman , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

In recent years, accelerated MRI reconstruction based on deep learning has led to significant improvements in image quality with impressive results for high acceleration factors. However, from a clinical perspective image quality is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Christian Schlarmann , Thomas Küstner , Christian F. Baumgartner , Matthias Hein

Scene Dynamic Recovery (SDR) by inverting distorted Rolling Shutter (RS) images to an undistorted high frame-rate Global Shutter (GS) video is a severely ill-posed problem due to the missing temporal dynamic information in both RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yangguang Wang , Xiang Zhang , Mingyuan Lin , Lei Yu , Boxin Shi , Wen Yang , Gui-Song Xia

Generating large-scale synthetic data in simulation is a feasible alternative to collecting/labelling real data for training vision-based deep learning models, albeit the modelling inaccuracies do not generalize to the physical world. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Ajay Kumar Tanwani

Robotic tasks such as manipulation with visual inputs require image features that capture the physical properties of the scene, e.g., the position and configuration of objects. Recently, it has been suggested to learn such features in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Carmel Rabinovitz , Niko Grupen , Aviv Tamar

Medical data often exhibits distribution shifts, which cause test-time performance degradation for deep learning models trained using standard supervised learning pipelines. This challenge is addressed in the field of Domain Generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Aleksandr Matsun , Numan Saeed , Fadillah Adamsyah Maani , Mohammad Yaqub

This paper addresses key aspects of domain randomization in generating synthetic data for manufacturing object detection applications. To this end, we present a comprehensive data generation pipeline that reflects different factors: object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaomeng Zhu , Jacob Henningsson , Duruo Li , Pär Mårtensson , Lars Hanson , Mårten Björkman , Atsuto Maki

Learning visuomotor policies in simulation is much safer and cheaper than in the real world. However, due to discrepancies between the simulated and real data, simulator-trained policies often fail when transferred to real robots. One…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ricardo Garcia , Robin Strudel , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Synthetic data is emerging as a promising solution to the scalability issue of supervised deep learning, especially when real data are difficult to acquire or hard to annotate. Synthetic data generation, however, can itself be prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Aayush Prakash , Shoubhik Debnath , Jean-Francois Lafleche , Eric Cameracci , Gavriel State , Stan Birchfield , Marc T. Law

The state-of-the-art in discriminative unsupervised surface anomaly detection relies on external datasets for synthesizing anomaly-augmented training images. Such approaches are prone to failure on near-in-distribution anomalies since these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan , Danijel Skočaj

While developing perception based deep learning models, the benefit of synthetic data is enormous. However, performance of networks trained with synthetic data for certain computer vision tasks degrade significantly when tested on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Koustav Mullick , Harshil Jain , Sanchit Gupta , Amit Arvind Kale

Domain randomization (DR) enables sim-to-real transfer by training controllers on a distribution of simulated environments, with the goal of achieving robust performance in the real world. Although DR is widely used in practice and is often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Tesshu Fujinami , Bruce D. Lee , Nikolai Matni , George J. Pappas

Single Domain Generalization (SDG) aims to train models that maintain consistent performance across diverse scenarios using data from a single source. While latent diffusion models (LDMs) show promise for augmenting limited source data, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hao Li , Yubin Xiao , Ke Liang , Mengzhu Wang , Long Lan , Kenli Li , Xinwang Liu