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State-of-the-art face recognition networks are often computationally expensive and cannot be used for mobile applications. Training lightweight face recognition models also requires large identity-labeled datasets. Meanwhile, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Anjith George , Sébastien Marcel

Deep learning models frequently suffer from various problems such as class imbalance and lack of robustness to distribution shift. It is often difficult to find data suitable for training beyond the available benchmarks. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Pratinav Seth , Akshat Bhandari , Kumud Lakara

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

Synthesizing realistic medical images provides a feasible solution to the shortage of training data in deep learning based medical image recognition systems. However, the quality control of synthetic images for data augmentation purposes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , L. Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Although humans engaged in face-to-face conversation simultaneously communicate both verbally and non-verbally, methods for joint and unified synthesis of speech audio and co-speech 3D gesture motion from text are a new and emerging field.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shivam Mehta , Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Birger Moëll , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter , Simon Alexanderson

Unified multimodal generation architectures that jointly produce text and images have recently emerged as a promising direction for text-to-image (T2I) synthesis. However, many existing systems rely on explicit modality switching,…

In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

Synthetic data generation has recently gained widespread attention as a more reliable alternative to traditional data anonymization. The involved methods are originally developed for image synthesis. Hence, their application to the…

We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

This paper addresses the challenge of overfitting in the learning of dynamical systems by introducing a novel approach for the generation of synthetic data, aimed at enhancing model generalization and robustness in scenarios characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Dario Piga , Matteo Rufolo , Gabriele Maroni , Manas Mejari , Marco Forgione

Synthetic data has gained attention for training large language models, but poor-quality data can harm performance (see, e.g., Shumailov et al. (2023); Seddik et al. (2024)). A potential solution is data pruning, which retains only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Aymane El Firdoussi , Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Soufiane Hayou , Reda Alami , Ahmed Alzubaidi , Hakim Hacid

The use of synthetic data for training computer vision algorithms has become increasingly popular due to its cost-effectiveness, scalability, and ability to provide accurate multi-modality labels. Although recent studies have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Eli Friedman , Assaf Lehr , Alexey Gruzdev , Vladimir Loginov , Max Kogan , Moran Rubin , Orly Zvitia

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

One-shot fine-grained visual recognition often suffers from the problem of training data scarcity for new fine-grained classes. To alleviate this problem, an off-the-shelf image generator can be applied to synthesize additional training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Satoshi Tsutsui , Yanwei Fu , David Crandall

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 long-standing challenge in developing machine learning approaches has been the lack of high-quality labeled data. Recently, models trained with purely synthetic data, here termed synthetic clones, generated using large-scale pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Krishnakant Singh , Thanush Navaratnam , Jannik Holmer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising framework for training agents using pre-collected datasets without the need for further environment interaction. However, policies trained on offline data often struggle to generalise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ahmet H. Güzel , Ilija Bogunovic , Jack Parker-Holder

In this work, we provide a recipe for training machine translation models in a limited resource setting by leveraging synthetic target data generated using a large pre-trained model. We show that consistently across different benchmarks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Sarthak Mittal , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Oleksii Kuchaiev

In many real-world settings, regulations and economic incentives permit the sharing of models but not data across institutional boundaries. In such scenarios, practitioners might hope to adapt models to new domains, without losing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yewon Byun , Sanket Vaibhav Mehta , Saurabh Garg , Emma Strubell , Michael Oberst , Bryan Wilder , Zachary C. Lipton

Collecting and annotating real-world data for the development of object detection models is a time-consuming and expensive process. In the military domain in particular, data collection can also be dangerous or infeasible. Training models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Frank A. Ruis , Alma M. Liezenga , Friso G. Heslinga , Luca Ballan , Thijs A. Eker , Richard J. M. den Hollander , Martin C. van Leeuwen , Judith Dijk , Wyke Huizinga