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Deep learning has significantly advanced building segmentation in remote sensing, yet models struggle to generalize on data of diverse geographic regions due to variations in city layouts and the distribution of building types, sizes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Song , Yang Tang , Rongjun Qin

A number of studies have investigated the training of neural networks with synthetic data for applications in the real world. The aim of this study is to quantify how much real world data can be saved when using a mixed dataset of synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Sven Burdorf , Karoline Plum , Daniel Hasenklever

Tremendous variations coupled with large degrees of freedom in UAV-based imaging conditions lead to a significant lack of data in adequately learning UAV-based perception models. Using various synthetic renderers in conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Christopher Maxey , Jaehoon Choi , Hyungtae Lee , Dinesh Manocha , Heesung Kwon

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

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

Recently, deep learning technology have been extensively used in the field of image recognition. However, its main application is the recognition and detection of ordinary pictures and common scenes. It is challenging to effectively and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangcun Shan , Hongyu Wang , Wei Liang , Congcong Liu , Qizi Ma , Quan Quan

Thermal imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds significant potential for applications in search and rescue, wildlife monitoring, and emergency response, especially under low-light or obscured conditions. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Andreja Jurasovic , Stjepan Bogdan

The natural world is long-tailed: rare classes are observed orders of magnitudes less frequently than common ones, leading to highly-imbalanced data where rare classes can have only handfuls of examples. Learning from few examples is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Edoardo Lanzini , Sara Beery

Novel deep-learning (DL) architectures have reached a level where they can generate digital media, including photorealistic images, that are difficult to distinguish from real data. These technologies have already been used to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tuong Vy Nguyen , Alexander Glaser , Felix Biessmann

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

Learning robust object detectors from only a handful of images is a critical challenge in industrial vision systems, where collecting high quality training data can take months. Synthetic data has emerged as a key solution for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Brandon Trabucco , Qasim Wani , Benjamin Pikus , Vasu Sharma

Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite these benefits, the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianhao Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shuyang Sun , Philip Torr , Bo Zhao

This is the paper for the first place winning solution of the Drone vs. Bird Challenge, organized by AVSS 2021. As the usage of drones increases with lowered costs and improved drone technology, drone detection emerges as a vital object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Ogulcan Eryuksel , Kamil Anil Ozfuttu , Sinan Onur Altinuc

Deep learning models frequently suffer from various problems such as class imbalance and lack of robustness to distribution shift. It is often difficult to find data suitable for training beyond the available benchmarks. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Pratinav Seth , Akshat Bhandari , Kumud Lakara

Deep learning approaches have become the standard solution to many problems in computer vision and robotics, but obtaining sufficient training data in high enough quality is challenging, as human labor is error prone, time consuming, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jan Blumenkamp , Andreas Baude , Tim Laue

Using synthetic data for training deep neural networks for robotic manipulation holds the promise of an almost unlimited amount of pre-labeled training data, generated safely out of harm's way. One of the key challenges of synthetic data,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Jonathan Tremblay , Thang To , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox , Stan Birchfield

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

With increasing processing power, deploying AI models for remote sensing directly onboard satellites is becoming feasible. However, new constraints arise, mainly when using raw, unprocessed sensor data instead of preprocessed ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Adrien Dorise , Marjorie Bellizzi , Adrien Girard , Benjamin Francesconi , Stéphane May

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

Synthetic images rendered from 3D CAD models are useful for augmenting training data for object recognition algorithms. However, the generated images are non-photorealistic and do not match real image statistics. This leads to a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Xingchao Peng , Kate Saenko