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The increasing adoption of synthetic data in aviation research offers a promising solution to data scarcity and confidentiality challenges. This study investigates the potential of generative models to produce realistic synthetic flight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Karim Aly , Alexei Sharpanskykh

We present AircraftVerse, a publicly available aerial vehicle design dataset. Aircraft design encompasses different physics domains and, hence, multiple modalities of representation. The evaluation of these cyber-physical system (CPS)…

Aerial-view human detection has a large demand for large-scale data to capture more diverse human appearances compared to ground-view human detection. Therefore, synthetic data can be a good resource to expand data, but the domain gap with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hyungtae Lee , Yan Zhang , Yi-Ting Shen , Heesung Kwon , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Deep learning models benefit from increasing data diversity and volume, motivating synthetic data augmentation to improve existing datasets. However, existing evaluation metrics for synthetic data typically calculate latent feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ümit Mert Çağlar , Alptekin Temizel

Object detection in radar imagery with neural networks shows great potential for improving autonomous driving. However, obtaining annotated datasets from real radar images, crucial for training these networks, is challenging, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Oded Bialer , Yuval Haitman

The Blackbird unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) dataset is a large-scale, aggressive indoor flight dataset collected using a custom-built quadrotor platform for use in evaluation of agile perception.Inspired by the potential of future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Amado Antonini , Winter Guerra , Varun Murali , Thomas Sayre-McCord , Sertac Karaman

Synthetic datasets are beneficial for machine learning researchers due to the possibility of experimenting with new strategies and algorithms in the training and testing phases. These datasets can easily include more scenarios that might be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Joseanne Viana , Hamed Farkhari , Pedro Sebastiao , Sandra Lagen , Katerina Koutlia , Biljana Bojovic , Rui Dinis

Cross-view image matching aims to match images of the same target scene acquired from different platforms. With the rapid development of drone technology, cross-view matching by neural network models has been a widely accepted choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Runzhe Zhu , Ling Yin , Mingze Yang , Fei Wu , Yuncheng Yang , Wenbo Hu

Current computer vision tasks based on deep learning require a huge amount of data with annotations for model training or testing, especially in some dense estimation tasks, such as optical flow segmentation and depth estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Xiangtong Wang , Binbin Liang , Menglong Yang , Wei Li

The primary contribution of this paper is a challenging benchmark dataset, UAVPairs, and a training pipeline designed for match pair retrieval of large-scale UAV images. First, the UAVPairs dataset, comprising 21,622 high-resolution images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Junhuan Liu , San Jiang , Wei Ge , Wei Huang , Bingxuan Guo , Qingquan Li

Learning image representations using synthetic data allows training neural networks without some of the concerns associated with real images, such as privacy and bias. Existing work focuses on a handful of curated generative processes which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manel Baradad , Chun-Fu Chen , Jonas Wulff , Tongzhou Wang , Rogerio Feris , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola

Recently deep learning - namely convolutional neural networks (CNNs) - have yielded impressive performance for the task of building segmentation on large overhead (e.g., satellite) imagery benchmarks. However, these benchmark datasets only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Fanjie Kong , Bohao Huang , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Detecting faces in overhead images remains a significant challenge due to extreme scale variations and environmental clutter. To address this, we created the BirdsEye-RU dataset, a comprehensive collection of 2,978 images containing over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Md. Ahanaf Arif Khan , Ariful Islam , Sangeeta Biswas , Md. Iqbal Aziz Khan , Subrata Pramanik , Sanjoy Kumar Chakravarty , Bimal Kumar Pramanik

Synthetic image generation has opened up new opportunities but has also created threats in regard to privacy, authenticity, and security. Detecting fake images is of paramount importance to prevent illegal activities, and previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Md Awsafur Rahman , Bishmoy Paul , Najibul Haque Sarker , Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

Very High Resolution satellite and aerial imagery are used to monitor and conduct large scale surveys of ecological systems. Convolutional Neural Networks have successfully been employed to analyze such imagery to detect large animals and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Aymen Al-Saadi , Ioannis Paraskevakos , Bento Collares Gonçalves , Heather J. Lynch , Shantenu Jha , Matteo Turilli

In this paper, we propose a novel face synthesis approach that can generate an arbitrarily large number of synthetic images of both real and synthetic identities. Thus a face image dataset can be expanded in terms of the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Sandipan Banerjee , John S. Bernhard , Walter J. Scheirer , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick J. Flynn

The availability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery has increased considerably in recent years, with datasets commercially available. However, the acquisition of high-resolution SAR images in airborne configurations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Solene Debuysere , Nicolas Trouve , Nathan Letheule , Olivier Leveque , Elise Colin

Data-driven methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are known to deliver state-of-the-art performance on image recognition tasks when the training data are abundant. However, in some instances, such as change detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Maria Kolos , Anton Marin , Alexey Artemov , Evgeny Burnaev

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

We introduce Synscapes -- a synthetic dataset for street scene parsing created using photorealistic rendering techniques, and show state-of-the-art results for training and validation as well as new types of analysis. We study the behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Magnus Wrenninge , Jonas Unger