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Annotated datasets are critical for training neural networks for object detection, yet their manual creation is time- and labour-intensive, subjective to human error, and often limited in diversity. This challenge is particularly pronounced…

Recently, counting the number of people for crowd scenes is a hot topic because of its widespread applications (e.g. video surveillance, public security). It is a difficult task in the wild: changeable environment, large-range number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Yuan Yuan

While synthetic bilingual corpora have demonstrated their effectiveness in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), adding more synthetic data often deteriorates translation performance. In this work, we propose alternated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Rui Jiao , Zonghan Yang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

State-of-the-art techniques of artificial intelligence, in particular deep learning, are mostly data-driven. However, collecting and manually labeling a large scale dataset is both difficult and expensive. A promising alternative is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Qi Chen , Weichao Qiu , Yi Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Alan Yuille

Synthetic data has transformed language model training, yet its role in time series forecasting remains poorly understood. We present a large-scale empirical study: nine experiment groups, 4,218 runs systematically evaluating synthetic time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hugo Cazaux , Eyjólfur Ingi Ásgeirsson , Hlynur Stefánsson

As the state-of-the-art machine learning methods in many fields rely on larger datasets, storing datasets and training models on them become significantly more expensive. This paper proposes a training set synthesis technique for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Hakan Bilen

Estimating human pose, shape, and motion from images and videos are fundamental challenges with many applications. Recent advances in 2D human pose estimation use large amounts of manually-labeled training data for learning convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Gül Varol , Javier Romero , Xavier Martin , Naureen Mahmood , Michael J. Black , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Recent advances in deep face recognition have spurred a growing demand for large, diverse, and manually annotated face datasets. Acquiring authentic, high-quality data for face recognition has proven to be a challenge, primarily due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Andrea Atzori , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

This paper addresses the problem of 3D human pose estimation in the wild. A significant challenge is the lack of training data, i.e., 2D images of humans annotated with 3D poses. Such data is necessary to train state-of-the-art CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Grégory Rogez , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

In recent years, person detection and human pose estimation have made great strides, helped by large-scale labeled datasets. However, these datasets had no guarantees or analysis of human activities, poses, or context diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Salehe Erfanian Ebadi , You-Cyuan Jhang , Alex Zook , Saurav Dhakad , Adam Crespi , Pete Parisi , Steven Borkman , Jonathan Hogins , Sujoy Ganguly

Model collapse in synthetic data indicates that iterative training on self-generated data leads to a gradual decline in performance. With the proliferation of AI models, synthetic data will fundamentally reshape the web data ecosystem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Xuekai Zhu , Daixuan Cheng , Hengli Li , Kaiyan Zhang , Ermo Hua , Xingtai Lv , Ning Ding , Zhouhan Lin , Zilong Zheng , Bowen Zhou

The standard approach to tackling computer vision problems is to train deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models using large-scale image datasets which are representative of the target task. However, in many scenarios, it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Alhassan Mumuni , Fuseini Mumuni , Nana Kobina Gerrar

Large, human-annotated datasets are central to the development of natural language processing models. Collecting these datasets can be the most challenging part of the development process. We address this problem by introducing a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Alana Marzoev , Samuel Madden , M. Frans Kaashoek , Michael Cafarella , Jacob Andreas

This paper attempts to address the issues of machine learning in its current implementation. It is known that machine learning algorithms require a significant amount of data for training purposes, whereas recent developments in deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Georgios Mastorakis

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising source for 3D human research as it offers low-cost access to large-scale human datasets. To advance the diversity and annotation quality of human models, we introduce a new synthetic dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhitao Yang , Zhongang Cai , Haiyi Mei , Shuai Liu , Zhaoxi Chen , Weiye Xiao , Yukun Wei , Zhongfei Qing , Chen Wei , Bo Dai , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu , Lei Yang

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Joel Kronander , Magnus Wrenninge , Jonas Unger

Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution to address the issue of high-quality data scarcity in the training of large language models (LLMs). Studies have shown that synthetic data can effectively improve the performance of LLMs on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Jie Chen , Yupeng Zhang , Bingning Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen , Weipeng Chen

The state of the art in human-centric computer vision achieves high accuracy and robustness across a diverse range of tasks. The most effective models in this domain have billions of parameters, thus requiring extremely large datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fatemeh Saleh , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Charlie Hewitt , Lohit Petikam , Xiao-Xian , Antonio Criminisi , Thomas J. Cashman , Tadas Baltrušaitis