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The ability to segment unknown objects in depth images has potential to enhance robot skills in grasping and object tracking. Recent computer vision research has demonstrated that Mask R-CNN can be trained to segment specific categories of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Michael Danielczuk , Matthew Matl , Saurabh Gupta , Andrew Li , Andrew Lee , Jeffrey Mahler , Ken Goldberg

After four decades of research there still exists a Classification accuracy gap of about 20% between our best Unsupervisedly Learned Representations methods and the accuracy rates achieved by intelligent animals. It thus may well be that we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniel N. Nissani

Deep learning is pushing the state-of-the-art in many computer vision applications. However, it relies on large annotated data repositories, and capturing the unconstrained nature of the real-world data is yet to be solved. Semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Navid Kardan , Mubarak Shah

Given the dependency of current CNN architectures on a large training set, the possibility of using synthetic data is alluring as it allows generating a virtually infinite amount of labeled training data. However, producing such data is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Pavel Rojtberg , Thomas Pöllabauer , Arjan Kuijper

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) aims to train a machine learning model using both labelled and unlabelled data. While the unlabelled data have been used in various ways to improve the prediction accuracy, the reason why unlabelled data could…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Archer Moore , Heejung Shim , Jingge Zhu , Mingming Gong

In this work, we propose to tackle several challenges hindering the development of Automatic Target Detection (ATD) algorithms for ground targets in SAR images. To address the lack of representative training data, we propose a Deep Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Benjamin Camus , Théo Voillemin , Corentin Le Barbu , Jean-Christophe Louvigné , Carole Belloni , Emmanuel Vallée

The performance of state-of-the-art object detectors degrades significantly under adverse weather, causing a safety-critical domain shift problem for autonomous vehicles. Recent efforts address this problem by relying on synthetic data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hamed Khatounabadi , Xiaohu Lu , Hayder Radha

The examination of the musculoskeletal system in dogs is a challenging task in veterinary practice. In this work, a novel method has been developed that enables efficient documentation of a dog's condition through a visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Martin Thißen , Thi Ngoc Diep Tran , Ben Joel Schönbein , Ute Trapp , Barbara Esteve Ratsch , Beate Egner , Romana Piat , Elke Hergenröther

A long-standing challenge in developing machine learning approaches has been the lack of high-quality labeled data. Recently, models trained with purely synthetic data, here termed synthetic clones, generated using large-scale pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Krishnakant Singh , Thanush Navaratnam , Jannik Holmer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Knowledge about the locations of keypoints of an object in an image can assist in fine-grained classification and identification tasks, particularly for the case of objects that exhibit large variations in poses that greatly influence their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Olga Moskvyak , Frederic Maire , Feras Dayoub , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been extensively studied to improve the generalization ability of deep neural networks for visual recognition. To involve the unlabelled data, most existing SSL methods are based on common density-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Suichan Li , Bin Liu , Dongdong Chen , Qi Chu , Lu Yuan , Nenghai Yu

Supervised learning demands large amounts of precisely annotated data to achieve promising results. Such data curation is labor-intensive and imposes significant overhead regarding time and costs. Self-supervised learning (SSL) partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Thangarajah Akilan , Nusrat Jahan , Wandong Zhang

The problem of fully supervised classification is that it requires a tremendous amount of annotated data, however, in many datasets a large portion of data is unlabeled. To alleviate this problem semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ehsan Kazemi

Estimation of human shape and pose from a single image is a challenging task. It is an even more difficult problem to map the identified human shape onto a 3D human model. Existing methods map manually labelled human pixels in real 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mithun Lal , Anthony Paproki , Nariman Habili , Lars Petersson , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes

Scalable training data generation is a critical problem in deep learning. We propose PennSyn2Real - a photo-realistic synthetic dataset consisting of more than 100,000 4K images of more than 20 types of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ty Nguyen , Ian D. Miller , Avi Cohen , Dinesh Thakur , Shashank Prasad , Camillo J. Taylor , Pratik Chaudrahi , Vijay Kumar

The lack of labeled data is a common challenge in speech classification tasks, particularly those requiring extensive subjective assessment, such as cognitive state classification. In this work, we propose a Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

The model-based estimation of 3D animal pose and shape from images enables computational modeling of animal behavior. Training models for this purpose requires large amounts of labeled image data with precise pose and shape annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tomasz Niewiadomski , Anastasios Yiannakidis , Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez , Soubhik Sanyal , Michael J. Black , Silvia Zuffi , Peter Kulits

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an active area of research which aims to utilize unlabelled data in order to improve the accuracy of speech recognition systems. The current study proposes a methodology for integration of two key ideas: 1)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Prakhar Swarup , Debmalya Chakrabarty , Ashtosh Sapru , Hitesh Tulsiani , Harish Arsikere , Sri Garimella

In this paper, we study the task of synthetic-to-real domain generalized semantic segmentation, which aims to learn a model that is robust to unseen real-world scenes using only synthetic data. The large domain shift between synthetic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yuyang Zhao , Zhun Zhong , Na Zhao , Nicu Sebe , Gim Hee Lee

We propose a novel approach for generating high-quality, synthetic data for domain-specific learning tasks, for which training data may not be readily available. We leverage recent progress in image-to-image translation to bridge the gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Gregory J. Stein , Nicholas Roy