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Machine learning has gained widespread attention as a powerful tool to identify structure in complex, high-dimensional data. However, these techniques are ostensibly inapplicable for experimental systems where data is scarce or expensive to…

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

A major challenges of deep learning (DL) is the necessity to collect huge amounts of training data. Often, the lack of a sufficiently large dataset discourages the use of DL in certain applications. Typically, acquiring the required amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Andoni Cortés , Clemente Rodríguez , Gorka Velez , Javier Barandiarán , Marcos Nieto

Recommender systems are essential for enhancing user experiences by suggesting items based on individual preferences. However, these systems frequently face the challenge of data imbalance, characterized by a predominance of negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fatih Cihan Taskin , Ilknur Akcay , Muhammed Pesen , Said Aldemir , Ipek Iraz Esin , Furkan Durmus

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

While the accuracy of face recognition systems has improved significantly in recent years, the datasets used to train these models are often collected through web crawling without the explicit consent of users, raising ethical and privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Anjith George , Sebastien Marcel

We study, from an empirical standpoint, the efficacy of synthetic data in real-world scenarios. Leveraging synthetic data for training perception models has become a key strategy embraced by the community due to its efficiency, scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Che-Jui Chang , Danrui Li , Seonghyeon Moon , Mubbasir Kapadia

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

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) analysis is often hindered by the intensive manual effort needed to create labelled training data. This study introduces a synthetic data framework to generate large volumes of richly labelled training data…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Kaspar Soltero , Tadeu Siqueira , Stefanie Gutschmidt

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

Synthetic augmentation is increasingly used to mitigate data scarcity in financial machine learning, yet its statistical role remains poorly understood. We formalize synthetic augmentation as a modification of the effective training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mel Sohm , Charles Dezons , Sami Sellami , Oscar Ninou , Axel Pincon

When training object detection models on synthetic data, it is important to make the distribution of synthetic data as close as possible to the distribution of real data. We investigate specifically the impact of object placement…

Automatic License Plate Recognition is a frequent research topic due to its wide-ranging practical applications. While recent studies use synthetic images to improve License Plate Recognition (LPR) results, there remain several limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rayson Laroca , Valter Estevam , Gladston J. P. Moreira , Rodrigo Minetto , David Menotti

Performance on benchmark datasets has drastically improved with advances in deep learning. Still, cross-dataset generalization performance remains relatively low due to the domain shift that can occur between two different datasets. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Panoramic images have advantages in information capacity and scene stability due to their large field of view (FoV). In this paper, we propose a method to synthesize a new dataset of panoramic image. We managed to stitch the images taken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuanyou Xu , Kaiwei Wang , Kailun Yang , Dongming Sun , Jia Fu

Performance achievable by modern deep learning approaches are directly related to the amount of data used at training time. Unfortunately, the annotation process is notoriously tedious and expensive, especially for pixel-wise tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Alessio Tonioni , Luigi Di Stefano

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

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

Detection of objects in cluttered indoor environments is one of the key enabling functionalities for service robots. The best performing object detection approaches in computer vision exploit deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Georgios Georgakis , Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander C. Berg , Jana Kosecka

With recent advances in speech synthesis, synthetic data is becoming a viable alternative to real data for training speech recognition models. However, machine learning with synthetic data is not trivial due to the gap between the synthetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Ting-Yao Hu , Mohammadreza Armandpour , Ashish Shrivastava , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Hema Koppula , Oncel Tuzel