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Autonomous driving techniques have been flourishing in recent years while thirsting for huge amounts of high-quality data. However, it is difficult for real-world datasets to keep up with the pace of changing requirements due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Zhihang Song , Zimin He , Xingyu Li , Qiming Ma , Ruibo Ming , Zhiqi Mao , Huaxin Pei , Lihui Peng , Jianming Hu , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

Machine learning has the potential to assist many communities in using the large datasets that are becoming more and more available. Unfortunately, much of that potential is not being realized because it would require sharing data in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 James Jordon , Jinsung Yoon , Mihaela van der Schaar

Synthetic datasets are often presented as a silver-bullet solution to the problem of privacy-preserving data publishing. However, for many applications, synthetic data has been shown to have limited utility when used to train predictive…

As the interplay between human-generated and synthetic data evolves, new challenges arise in scientific discovery concerning the integrity of the data and the stability of the models. In this work, we examine the role of synthetic data as…

Synthesizing relational data has started to receive more attention from researchers, practitioners, and industry. The task is more difficult than synthesizing a single table due to the added complexity of relationships between tables. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Valter Hudovernik , Martin Jurkovič , Erik Štrumbelj

Machine learning heavily relies on data, but real-world applications often encounter various data-related issues. These include data of poor quality, insufficient data points leading to under-fitting of machine learning models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yingzhou Lu , Lulu Chen , Yuanyuan Zhang , Minjie Shen , Huazheng Wang , Xiao Wang , Capucine van Rechem , Tianfan Fu , Wenqi Wei

The sheer scale of high-resolution raw data generated by simulation has motivated non-conventional approaches for data exploration referred as `immersive' and `in situ' query processing of the raw simulation data. Another step towards…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Bernardo Gonçalves , Fabio Porto

The emergence of synthetic data for privacy protection, training data generation, or simply convenient access to quasi-realistic data in any shape or volume complicates the concept of ground truth. Synthetic data mimic real-world…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dietmar Offenhuber

In today's business landscape, organizations need to find the right balance between using their customers' data ethically to power AI solutions and being compliant regarding data privacy and data usage regulations. In this paper, we discuss…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aditi Godbole

Recent breakthroughs in synthetic data generation approaches made it possible to produce highly photorealistic images which are hardly distinguishable from real ones. Furthermore, synthetic generation pipelines have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Matan Fintz , Gerard Medioni

Deep learning approaches require enough training samples to perform well, but it is a challenge to collect enough real training data and label them manually. In this letter, we propose the use of realistic synthetic data with a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Weixing Liu , Jun Liu , Bin Luo

Synthetic data is becoming increasingly integral in data-scarce fields such as medical imaging, serving as a substitute for real data. However, its inherent statistical characteristics can significantly impact downstream tasks, potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Krishan Agyakari Raja Babu , Rachana Sathish , Mrunal Pattanaik , Rahul Venkataramani

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Recent advances in deep generative models have greatly expanded the potential to create realistic synthetic health datasets. These synthetic datasets aim to preserve the characteristics, patterns, and overall scientific conclusions derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jennifer A Bartell , Sander Boisen Valentin , Anders Krogh , Henning Langberg , Martin Bøgsted

Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

The use of synthetic data has emerged as an essential tool in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) research and applications, providing advantages for optimization of acquisition, software validation, deep learning applications, and…

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

An array of large observational programs using ground-based and space-borne telescopes is planned in the next decade. The forthcoming wide-field sky surveys are expected to deliver a sheer volume of data exceeding an exabyte. Processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 Kana Moriwaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Naoki Yoshida

Observational astronomy is plagued with selection effects that must be taken into account when interpreting data from astronomical surveys. Because of the physical limitations of observing time and instrument sensitivity, datasets are…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Sarah C. Gallagher , Chris Smeenk

As insufficient data volume and quality remain the key impediments to the adoption of modern subsymbolic AI, techniques of synthetic data generation are in high demand. Simulation offers an apt, systematic approach to generating diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoran Liu , Istvan David