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We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

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

Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Denis Zavadski , Damjan Kalšan , Tim Küchler , Haebom Lee , Stefan Roth , Carsten Rother

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

We present a system for training deep neural networks for object detection using synthetic images. To handle the variability in real-world data, the system relies upon the technique of domain randomization, in which the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jonathan Tremblay , Aayush Prakash , David Acuna , Mark Brophy , Varun Jampani , Cem Anil , Thang To , Eric Cameracci , Shaad Boochoon , Stan Birchfield

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

Data collection has always been a major issue in the modeling and training of large deep learning networks, as no dataset can account for every slight deviation we might see in live usage. Collecting samples can be especially costly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Conor Flynn , Christopher Ebersole , Edmund Zelnio

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

Foundation models in digital pathology use massive datasets to learn useful compact feature representations of complex histology images. However, there is limited transparency into what drives the correlation between dataset size and…

Many approaches have been proposed to use diffusion models to augment training datasets for downstream tasks, such as classification. However, diffusion models are themselves trained on large datasets, often with noisy annotations, and it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Max F. Burg , Florian Wenzel , Dominik Zietlow , Max Horn , Osama Makansi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

The ability to generate privacy-preserving synthetic versions of sensitive image datasets could unlock numerous ML applications currently constrained by data availability. Due to their astonishing image generation quality, diffusion models…

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

In the past decade, object detection tasks are defined mostly by large public datasets. However, building object detection datasets is not scalable due to inefficient image collecting and labeling. Furthermore, most labels are still in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiaotian Lin , Leiyang Xu , Qiang Wang

The remarkable ease of use of diffusion models for image generation has led to a proliferation of synthetic content online. While these models are often employed for legitimate purposes, they are also used to generate fake images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Giulia Bertazzini , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Isao Echizen , Alessandro Piva

High-quality power flow datasets are essential for training machine learning models in power systems. However, security and privacy concerns restrict access to real-world data, making statistically accurate and physically consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Milad Hoseinpour , Vladimir Dvorkin

In this study, we show that diffusion models can be used in industrial scenarios to improve the data augmentation procedure in the context of surface defect detection. In general, defect detection classifiers are trained on ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Luigi Capogrosso , Federico Girella , Francesco Taioli , Michele Dalla Chiara , Muhammad Aqeel , Franco Fummi , Francesco Setti , Marco Cristani

Generative AI has seen remarkable growth over the past few years, with diffusion models being state-of-the-art for image generation. This study investigates the use of diffusion models in generating artificial data generation for electronic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Prasha Srivastava , Pawan Kumar , Zia Abbas

Variable selection for high-dimensional, highly correlated data has long been a challenging problem, often yielding unstable and unreliable models. We propose a resample-aggregate framework that exploits diffusion models' ability to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-20 Minjie Wang , Xiaotong Shen , Wei Pan

Selective weeding is one of the key challenges in the field of agriculture robotics. To accomplish this task, a farm robot should be able to accurately detect plants and to distinguish them between crop and weeds. Most of the promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Maurilio Di Cicco , Ciro Potena , Giorgio Grisetti , Alberto Pretto

Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within a specific domain can be prohibitively expensive due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Yuxin Wen , Michael Spranger , Lingjuan Lyu