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In this work we study the mutual benefits of two common computer vision tasks, self-supervised depth estimation and semantic segmentation from images. For example, to help unsupervised monocular depth estimation, constraints from semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shengjie Zhu , Garrick Brazil , Xiaoming Liu

In human learning, it is common to use multiple sources of information jointly. However, most existing feature learning approaches learn from only a single task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task deep network to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Zhongzheng Ren , Yong Jae Lee

Data augmentations are useful in closing the sim-to-real domain gap when training on synthetic data. This is because they widen the training data distribution, thus encouraging the model to generalize better to other domains. Many image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bram Vanherle , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth

Recent semantic segmentation models perform well under standard weather conditions and sufficient illumination but struggle with adverse weather conditions and nighttime. Collecting and annotating training data under these conditions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Abdulrahman Kerim , Felipe Chamone , Washington Ramos , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Erickson R. Nascimento , Richard Jiang

Semantic segmentation methods have achieved outstanding performance thanks to deep learning. Nevertheless, when such algorithms are deployed to new contexts not seen during training, it is necessary to collect and label scene-specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Daniele Di Mauro , Antonino Furnari , Giuseppe Patanè , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Maria Farinella

With the rapid advancement of synthetic dataset generation techniques, evaluating the quality of synthetic data has become a critical research focus. Robust evaluation not only drives innovations in data generation methods but also guides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhihang Song , Dingyi Yao , Ruibo Ming , Lihui Peng , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

This article aims to use graphic engines to simulate a large number of training data that have free annotations and possibly strongly resemble to real-world data. Between synthetic and real, a two-level domain gap exists, involving content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yue Yao , Liang Zheng , Xiaodong Yang , Milind Napthade , Tom Gedeon

This work proves that semantic segmentation on minimally invasive surgical instruments can be improved by using training data that has been augmented through domain adaptation. The benefit of this method is twofold. Firstly, it suppresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Iñigo Azqueta-Gavaldon , Florian Fröhlich , Klaus Strobl , Rudolph Triebel

This paper tackles the problem of novel view synthesis from a single image. In particular, we target real-world scenes with rich geometric structure, a challenging task due to the large appearance variations of such scenes and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Miaomiao Liu , Xuming He , Mathieu Salzmann

For pixel-level crowd understanding, it is time-consuming and laborious in data collection and annotation. Some domain adaptation algorithms try to liberate it by training models with synthetic data, and the results in some recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Despite their impressive performance in various surgical scene understanding tasks, deep learning-based methods are frequently hindered from deploying to real-world surgical applications for various causes. Particularly, data collection,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Hongliang Ren

3D synthetic-to-real unsupervised domain adaptive segmentation is crucial to annotating new domains. Self-training is a competitive approach for this task, but its performance is limited by different sensor sampling patterns (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhimin Yuan , Wankang Zeng , Yanfei Su , Weiquan Liu , Ming Cheng , Yulan Guo , Cheng Wang

Driving scene parsing is critical for autonomous vehicles to operate reliably in complex real-world traffic environments. To reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations, synthetic datasets with automatically generated labels have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiahe Fan , Xiao Ma , Sergey Vityazev , George Giakos , Shaolong Shu , Rui Fan

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Recently, the use of synthetic training data has been on the rise as it offers correctly labelled datasets at a lower cost. The downside of this technique is that the so-called domain gap between the real target images and synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Bram Vanherle , Steven Moonen , Frank Van Reeth , Nick Michiels

Domain adaptive semantic segmentation aims to train a model performing satisfactory pixel-level predictions on the target with only out-of-domain (source) annotations. The conventional solution to this task is to minimize the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Guoliang Kang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Current methods for single-image depth estimation use training datasets with real image-depth pairs or stereo pairs, which are not easy to acquire. We propose a framework, trained on synthetic image-depth pairs and unpaired real images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

Deep Learning has greatly advanced the performance of semantic segmentation, however, its success relies on the availability of large amounts of annotated data for training. Hence, many efforts have been devoted to domain adaptive semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhengeng Yang , Hongshan Yu , Wei Sun , Li-Cheng , Ajmal Mian

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to adapt models trained on a source domain to a new target domain where no labelled data is available. In this work, we investigate the problem of UDA from a synthetic computer-generated domain to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Stephan Brehm , Sebastian Scherer , Rainer Lienhart

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, but domain shift often leads to performance degradation when models are applied to unseen clinical domains. This challenge arises due to variations in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yingkai Wang , Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Yuhao Xiao , Haotian Wu , Yu Yao