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Recognizing fine-grained categories remains a challenging task, due to the subtle distinctions among different subordinate categories, which results in the need of abundant annotated samples. To alleviate the data-hungry problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Junjie Chen , Li Niu , Liu Liu , Liqing Zhang

Robotic learning in simulation environments provides a faster, more scalable, and safer training methodology than learning directly with physical robots. Also, synthesizing images in a simulation environment for collecting large-scale image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Tadanobu Inoue , Subhajit Chaudhury , Giovanni De Magistris , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson

A major challenge in applying machine learning to automated theorem proving is the scarcity of training data, which is a key ingredient in training successful deep learning models. To tackle this problem, we propose an approach that relies…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Eser Aygün , Zafarali Ahmed , Ankit Anand , Vlad Firoiu , Xavier Glorot , Laurent Orseau , Doina Precup , Shibl Mourad

The finding that very large networks can be trained efficiently and reliably has led to a paradigm shift in computer vision from engineered solutions to learning formulations. As a result, the research challenge shifts from devising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philipp Fischer , Caner Hazirbas , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Deep learning has raised hopes and expectations as a general solution for many applications; indeed it has proven effective, but it also showed a strong dependence on large quantities of data. Luckily, it has been shown that, even when data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Fabio Maria Carlucci

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

Annotated training data insufficiency remains to be one of the challenges of applying deep learning in medical data classification problems. Transfer learning from an already trained deep convolutional network can be used to reduce the cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Shri Kant

The need for large annotated image datasets for training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been a significant impediment for their adoption in computer vision applications. We show that with transfer learning an effective object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Param S. Rajpura , Hristo Bojinov , Ravi S. Hegde

Despite great success in human parsing, progress for parsing other deformable articulated objects, like animals, is still limited by the lack of labeled data. In this paper, we use synthetic images and ground truth generated from CAD animal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jiteng Mu , Weichao Qiu , Gregory Hager , Alan Yuille

A dramatic rise in the flow of manipulated image content on the Internet has led to an aggressive response from the media forensics research community. New efforts have incorporated increased usage of techniques from computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Aparna Bharati , Daniel Moreira , Patrick Flynn , Anderson Rocha , Kevin Bowyer , Walter Scheirer

Deep Learning methods usually require huge amounts of training data to perform at their full potential, and often require expensive manual labeling. Using synthetic images is therefore very attractive to train object detectors, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Stefan Hinterstoisser , Vincent Lepetit , Paul Wohlhart , Kurt Konolige

We investigate the use of deep convolutional neural networks (deep CNNs) for automatic visual detection of galaxy mergers. Moreover, we investigate the use of transfer learning in conjunction with CNNs, by retraining networks first trained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Sandro Ackermann , Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Anna K. Weigel , M. Dennis Turp

Humans are capable of learning new concepts from small numbers of examples. In contrast, supervised deep learning models usually lack the ability to extract reliable predictive rules from limited data scenarios when attempting to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhongjie Yu , Sebastian Raschka

Deep learning owes its success to three key factors: scale of data, enhanced models to learn representations from data, and scale of computation. This book chapter presented the importance of the data-driven approach to learn good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Chun-Nan Chou , Chuen-Kai Shie , Fu-Chieh Chang , Jocelyn Chang , Edward Y. Chang

Computational cost of training state-of-the-art deep models in many learning problems is rapidly increasing due to more sophisticated models and larger datasets. A recent promising direction for reducing training cost is dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

We present a method for inferring dense depth maps from images and sparse depth measurements by leveraging synthetic data to learn the association of sparse point clouds with dense natural shapes, and using the image as evidence to validate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Safa Cicek , Stefano Soatto

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

The scarcity of training data presents a fundamental challenge in applying deep learning to archaeological artifact classification, particularly for the rare types of Chinese porcelain. This study investigates whether synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ziyao Ling , Silvia Mirri , Paola Salomoni , Giovanni Delnevo

While deep learning techniques have proven successful in image-related tasks, the exponentially increased data storage and computation costs become a significant challenge. Dataset distillation addresses these challenges by synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Zhe Li , Weitong Zhang , Sarah Cechnicka , Bernhard Kainz