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The ability to detect and classify rare occurrences in images has important applications - for example, counting rare and endangered species when studying biodiversity, or detecting infrequent traffic scenarios that pose a danger to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Sara Beery , Yang Liu , Dan Morris , Jim Piavis , Ashish Kapoor , Markus Meister , Neel Joshi , Pietro Perona

Training data is an essential resource for creating capable and robust vision systems which are integral to the proper function of many robotic systems. Synthesized training data has been shown in recent years to be a viable alternative to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Peter Gavriel , Adam Norton , Kenneth Kimble , Megan Zimmerman

Deep learning in computer vision has achieved great success with the price of large-scale labeled training data. However, exhaustive data annotation is impracticable for each task of all domains of interest, due to high labor costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hui Tang , Kui Jia

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

The performance of supervised deep learning algorithms depends significantly on the scale, quality and diversity of the data used for their training. Collecting and manually annotating large amount of data can be both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 C. Symeonidis , P. Nousi , P. Tosidis , K. Tsampazis , N. Passalis , A. Tefas , N. Nikolaidis

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

Deep learning approaches require enough training samples to perform well, but it is a challenge to collect enough real training data and label them manually. In this letter, we propose the use of realistic synthetic data with a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Weixing Liu , Jun Liu , Bin Luo

We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Joel Kronander , Magnus Wrenninge , Jonas Unger

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual comparisons remains non-trivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in the number of training images, but also access to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Aron Yu , Kristen Grauman

In many manufacturing settings, annotating data for machine learning and computer vision is costly, but synthetic data can be generated at significantly lower cost. Substituting the real-world data with synthetic data is therefore appealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Lukas Malte Kemeter , Rasmus Hvingelby , Paulina Sierak , Tobias Schön , Bishwajit Gosswam

In recent years, deep learning models have resulted in a huge amount of progress in various areas, including computer vision. By nature, the supervised training of deep models requires a large amount of data to be available. This ideal case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Farzan Erlik Nowruzi , Prince Kapoor , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Fahed Al Hassanat , Robert Laganiere , Julien Rebut

Training supervised deep neural networks that perform defect detection and segmentation requires large-scale fully-annotated datasets, which can be hard or even impossible to obtain in industrial environments. Generative AI offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Gabriele Valvano , Antonino Agostino , Giovanni De Magistris , Antonino Graziano , Giacomo Veneri

This paper presents an improved scheme for the generation and adaption of synthetic images for the training of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) to perform the object detection task in smart vending machines. While generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Kai Wang , Fuyuan Shi , Wenqi Wang , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Training a deep network to perform semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled data. To alleviate the manual effort of annotating real images, researchers have investigated the use of synthetic data, which can be labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez

Images of the eye are key in several computer vision problems, such as shape registration and gaze estimation. Recent large-scale supervised methods for these problems require time-consuming data collection and manual annotation, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Xucong Zhang , Yusuke Sugano , Peter Robinson , Andreas Bulling

Although deep networks have significantly increased the performance of visual recognition methods, it is still challenging to achieve the robustness across visual domains that is necessary for real-world applications. To tackle this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Antonio D'Innocente , Silvia Bucci , Barbara Caputo , Tatiana Tommasi

Deep learning has revolutionized neuroimage analysis by delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy. However, the narrow scope of many training datasets constrains model robustness and generalizability. This challenge is particularly acute…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Malte Hoffmann

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

While developing perception based deep learning models, the benefit of synthetic data is enormous. However, performance of networks trained with synthetic data for certain computer vision tasks degrade significantly when tested on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Koustav Mullick , Harshil Jain , Sanchit Gupta , Amit Arvind Kale