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In general, an experimental environment for deep learning assumes that the training and the test dataset are sampled from the same distribution. However, in real-world situations, a difference in the distribution between two datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Daehee Kim , Seunghyun Park , Jinkyu Kim , Jaekoo Lee

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

In cross-domain retrieval, a model is required to identify images from the same semantic category across two visual domains. For instance, given a sketch of an object, a model needs to retrieve a real image of it from an online store's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Samarth Mishra , Carlos D. Castillo , Hongcheng Wang , Kate Saenko , Venkatesh Saligrama

This paper extensively investigates the effectiveness of synthetic training data to improve the capabilities of vision-and-language models for grounding textual descriptions to image regions. We explore various strategies to best generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ruozhen He , Ziyan Yang , Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Alexander C. Berg , Vicente Ordonez

In Domain Generalization (DG) tasks, models are trained by using only training data from the source domains to achieve generalization on an unseen target domain, this will suffer from the distribution shift problem. So it's important to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Cheng Dai , Yingqiao Lin , Fan Li , Xiyao Li , Donglin Xie

This paper considers image change detection with only a small number of samples, which is a significant problem in terms of a few annotations available. A major impediment of image change detection task is the lack of large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ke Liu , Zhaoyi Song , Haoyue Bai

With the increasing utilization of deep learning in outdoor settings, its robustness needs to be enhanced to preserve accuracy in the face of distribution shifts, such as compression artifacts. Data augmentation is a widely used technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shohei Enomoto , Monikka Roslianna Busto , Takeharu Eda

Contrastive learning produces coherent semantic feature embeddings by encouraging positive samples to cluster closely while separating negative samples. However, existing contrastive learning methods lack principled guarantees on coverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yahya Alkhatib , Wee Peng Tay

Machine learning is driven by data, yet while their availability is constantly increasing, training data require laborious, time consuming and error-prone labelling or ground truth acquisition, which in some cases is very difficult or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Vasileios Gkitsas , Antonis Karakottas , Nikolaos Zioulis , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Most Neural Networks (NNs) for classification are trained using Cross-Entropy as a loss function. This approach requires the model to have an explicit classification layer. However, there exist alternative approaches, such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leonardo Arrighi , Julia Eva Belloni , Aurélie Gallet , Ivan Gentile , Matteo Lippi , Marco Zullich

Enhancing the domain generalization performance of Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) techniques has emerged as a research focus. Existing methods are dedicated to extracting domain-invariant features from various training domains. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lianrui Mu , Jianhong Bai , Xiaoxuan He , Jiangnan Ye , Xiaoyu Liang , Yuchen Yang , Jiedong Zhuang , Haoji Hu

We study self-supervised learning on graphs using contrastive methods. A general scheme of prior methods is to optimize two-view representations of input graphs. In many studies, a single graph-level representation is computed as one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Xinyi Xu , Cheng Deng , Yaochen Xie , Shuiwang Ji

Remote sensing change detection, identifying changes between scenes of the same location, is an active area of research with a broad range of applications. Recent advances in multimodal self-supervised pretraining have resulted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Isaac Corley , Peyman Najafirad

Ensuring the reliability of autonomous driving perception systems requires extensive environment-based testing, yet real-world execution is often impractical. Synthetic datasets have therefore emerged as a promising alternative, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dingyi Yao , Xinyao Han , Ruibo Ming , Zhihang Song , Lihui Peng , Jianming Hu , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

Deploying machine learning models in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or rapid prototyping scenarios, increasingly demands distillation of large datasets into significantly smaller yet informative synthetic datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Wenmin Li , Shunsuke Sakai , Tatsuhito Hasegawa

Contrastive learning is among the most popular and powerful approaches for self-supervised representation learning, where the goal is to map semantically similar samples close together while separating dissimilar ones in the latent space.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Ali Alvandi , Mina Rezaei

This paper presents a new adversarial training framework for image inpainting with segmentation confusion adversarial training (SCAT) and contrastive learning. SCAT plays an adversarial game between an inpainting generator and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Zhiwen Zuo , Lei Zhao , Ailin Li , Zhizhong Wang , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiafu Chen , Wei Xing , Dongming Lu

Despite the success of deep learning in disparity estimation, the domain generalization gap remains an issue. We propose a semi-supervised pipeline that successfully adapts DispNet to a real-world domain by joint supervised training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Julia Guerrero-Viu , Sergio Izquierdo , Philipp Schröppel , Thomas Brox

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

Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions $B$ (\eg, Indoors) are over-represented in certain classes $Y$ (\eg, Big Dogs). Synthetic data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Maan Qraitem , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer