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The advent of deep learning has brought a significant improvement in the quality of generated media. However, with the increased level of photorealism, synthetic media are becoming hardly distinguishable from real ones, raising serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Diego Gragnaniello , Davide Cozzolino , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Generative AI technologies produce increasingly realistic imagery, which, despite its potential for creative applications, can also be misused to produce misleading and harmful content. This renders Synthetic Image Detection (SID) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Despina Konstantinidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

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

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

Recent advances in deep learning-based object detection techniques have revolutionized their applicability in several fields. However, since these methods rely on unwieldy and large amounts of data, a common practice is to download models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 João Borrego , Atabak Dehban , Rui Figueiredo , Plinio Moreno , Alexandre Bernardino , José Santos-Victor

Currently, industrial anomaly detection suffers from two bottlenecks: (i) the rarity of real-world defect images and (ii) the opacity of sample quality when synthetic data are used. Existing synthetic strategies (e.g., cut-and-paste)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Long Qian , Bingke Zhu , Yingying Chen , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recently, social infrastructure is aging, and its predictive maintenance has become important issue. To monitor the state of infrastructures, bridge inspection is performed by human eye or bay drone. For diagnosis, primary damage region are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Takato Yasuno , Michihiro Nakajima , Tomoharu Sekiguchi , Kazuhiro Noda , Kiyoshi Aoyanagi , Sakura Kato

The rapid progress of generative models has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, raising concerns about authenticity and trust in digital media. Detecting such fake content reliably is an urgent challenge. While deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Syed Mehedi Hasan Nirob , Moqsadur Rahman , Shamim Ehsan , Summit Haque

The heightened realism of AI-generated images can be attributed to the rapid development of synthetic models, including generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs). The malevolent use of synthetic images, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haiwei Wu , Jiantao Zhou , Shile Zhang

Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems, the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately, existing image-space detectors quickly become obsolete as new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 George Cazenavette , Avneesh Sud , Thomas Leung , Ben Usman

The widespread misuse of image generation technologies has raised security concerns, driving the development of AI-generated image detection methods. However, generalization has become a key challenge and open problem: existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongkang Hu , Yu Cheng , Yushuo Zhang , Yuan Xie , Zhaoxia Yin

We describe a novel learning-by-synthesis method for estimating gaze direction of an automated intelligent surveillance system. Recently, progress in learning-by-synthesis has proposed training models on synthetic images, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

This paper proposes a training data augmentation pipeline that combines synthetic image data with neural style transfer in order to address the vulnerability of deep vision models to common corruptions. We show that although applying style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Georg Siedel , Rojan Regmi , Abhirami Anand , Weijia Shao , Silvia Vock , Andrey Morozov

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

For low-level computer vision and image processing ML tasks, training on large datasets is critical for generalization. However, the standard practice of relying on real-world images primarily from the Internet comes with image quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Gyeongmin Choe , Beibei Du , Seonghyeon Nam , Xiaoyu Xiang , Bo Zhu , Rakesh Ranjan

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, it is now possible to synthesize high-quality images in a few seconds. Despite the power of these technologies, they raise significant concerns regarding misuse. Current efforts to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Siyuan Cheng , Lingjuan Lyu , Zhenting Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Vikash Sehwag

The accelerated advancement of generative AI significantly enhance the viability and effectiveness of generative regional editing methods. This evolution render the image manipulation more accessible, thereby intensifying the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhihao Sun , Haipeng Fang , Xinying Zhao , Danding Wang , Juan Cao

Recent breakthroughs in deep learning and generative systems have significantly fostered the creation of synthetic media, as well as the local alteration of real content via the insertion of highly realistic synthetic manipulations. Local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anmol Manjunath , Viola Negroni , Sara Mandelli , Daniel Moreira , Paolo Bestagini

We present SSOD, the first end-to-end analysis-by synthesis framework with controllable GANs for the task of self-supervised object detection. We use collections of real world images without bounding box annotations to learn to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Shalini De Mello , Aayush Prakash , Umar Iqbal , Sifei Liu , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Carsten Rother , Jan Kautz