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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

Accurately labeled real-world training data can be scarce, and hence recent works adapt, modify or generate images to boost target datasets. However, retaining relevant details from input data in the generated images is challenging and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Marcel Bühler , Seonwook Park , Shalini De Mello , Xucong Zhang , Otmar Hilliges

Recognizing artworks in a cultural site using images acquired from the user's point of view (First Person Vision) allows to build interesting applications for both the visitors and the site managers. However, current object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Giovanni Pasqualino , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Signorello , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Neural networks need big annotated datasets for training. However, manual annotation can be too expensive or even unfeasible for certain tasks, like multi-person 2D pose estimation with severe occlusions. A remedy for this is synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Micheal J. Black , Siyu Tang

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

The increasing demand for autonomous machines in construction environments necessitates the development of robust object detection algorithms that can perform effectively across various weather and environmental conditions. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Maghsood Salimi , Mohammad Loni , Sara Afshar , Antonio Cicchetti , Marjan Sirjani

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

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style of a reference portrait to a source portrait while preserving identity and background. Early methods formulate this task as unsupervised image-to-image translation, relying on surrogate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yue Yu , Jiayu Wang , Jiajia Shi , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Cross-domain synthesizing realistic faces to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention for facial expression analysis as it helps to improve the performance of expression recognition accuracy despite having small number of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Learning on synthetic data and transferring the resulting properties to their real counterparts is an important challenge for reducing costs and increasing safety in machine learning. In this work, we focus on autoencoder architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Steve Dias Da Cruz , Bertram Taetz , Thomas Stifter , Didier Stricker

The availability of real data from areas with high privacy requirements, such as the medical intervention space, is low and the acquisition legally complex. Therefore, this work presents a way to create a synthetic dataset for the medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Patrick Schülein , Hannah Teufel , Ronja Vorpahl , Indira Emter , Yannick Bukschat , Marcus Pfister , Anke Siebert , Nils Rathmann , Steffen Diehl , Marcus Vetter

Unsupervised transfer of object recognition models from synthetic to real data is an important problem with many potential applications. The challenge is how to "adapt" a model trained on simulated images so that it performs well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Xingchao Peng , Ben Usman , Kuniaki Saito , Neela Kaushik , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko

Driving scene parsing is critical for autonomous vehicles to operate reliably in complex real-world traffic environments. To reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations, synthetic datasets with automatically generated labels have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiahe Fan , Xiao Ma , Sergey Vityazev , George Giakos , Shaolong Shu , Rui Fan

Extracting structured representations from raw visual data is an important and long-standing challenge in machine learning. Recently, techniques for unsupervised learning of object-centric representations have raised growing interest. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Riccardo Majellaro , Jonathan Collu , Aske Plaat , Thomas M. Moerland

The performance of neural network models is often limited by the availability of big data sets. To treat this problem, we survey and develop novel synthetic data generation and augmentation techniques for enhancing low/zero-sample learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathan Clement , Alan Schoen , Arnold Boedihardjo , Andrew Jenkins

In the burgeoning field of intelligent transportation systems, enhancing vehicle-driver interaction through facial attribute recognition, such as facial expression, eye gaze, age, etc., is of paramount importance for safety,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Esmaeil Seraj , Walter Talamonti

Modern machine learning models for scene understanding, such as depth estimation and object tracking, rely on large, high-quality datasets that mimic real-world deployment scenarios. To address data scarcity, we propose an end-to-end system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sonia Laguna , Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Stylianos Moschoglou , Leonhard Helminger , Sergio Orts-Escolano

Reducing the burden of data generation and annotation remains a major challenge for the cost-effective deployment of machine learning in industrial and robotics settings. While synthetic rendering is a promising solution, bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jose Moises Araya-Martinez , Adrián Sanchis Reig , Gautham Mohan , Sarvenaz Sardari , Jens Lambrecht , Jörg Krüger

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

Applying an object detector, which is neither trained nor fine-tuned on data close to the final application, often leads to a substantial performance drop. In order to overcome this problem, it is necessary to consider a shift between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Alexey Abramov , Christopher Bayer , Claudio Heller