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One of the biggest challenges in machine learning is data collection. Training data is an important part since it determines how the model will behave. In object classification, capturing a large number of images per object and in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 August Baaz , Yonan Yonan , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Felix Nilsson

Automating quality inspection with computer vision techniques is often a very data-demanding task. Specifically, supervised deep learning requires a large amount of annotated images for training. In practice, collecting and annotating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Antoine Cordier , Pierre Gutierrez , Victoire Plessis

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

Automatically generating maps from satellite images is an important task. There is a body of literature which tries to address this challenge. We created a more expansive survey of the task by experimenting with different models and adding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Swetava Ganguli , Pedro Garzon , Noa Glaser

Evaluating generative models for synthetic medical imaging is crucial yet challenging, especially given the high standards of fidelity, anatomical accuracy, and safety required for clinical applications. Standard evaluation of generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yash Deo , Yan Jia , Toni Lassila , William A. P. Smith , Tom Lawton , Siyuan Kang , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ibrahim Habli

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

Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual comparisons remains non-trivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in the number of training images, but also access to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Aron Yu , Kristen Grauman

This research addresses a critical challenge in the field of generative models, particularly in the generation and evaluation of synthetic images. Given the inherent complexity of generative models and the absence of a standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Majid Memari , Khaled R. Ahmed , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

How to generate the ground-truth (GT) image is a critical issue for training realistic image super-resolution (Real-ISR) models. Existing methods mostly take a set of high-resolution (HR) images as GTs and apply various degradations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Du Chen , Jie Liang , Xindong Zhang , Ming Liu , Hui Zeng , Lei Zhang

Multi-spectral satellite imagery provides valuable data at global scale for many environmental and socio-economic applications. Building supervised machine learning models based on these imagery, however, may require ground reference labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tharun Mohandoss , Aditya Kulkarni , Daniel Northrup , Ernest Mwebaze , Hamed Alemohammad

In this paper we propose a mask-conditional synthetic image generation model for creating synthetic satellite imagery datasets. Given a dataset of real high-resolution images and accompanying land cover masks, we show that it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Van Anh Le , Varshini Reddy , Zixi Chen , Mengyuan Li , Xinran Tang , Anthony Ortiz , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , Caleb Robinson

Generation of maps from satellite images is conventionally done by a range of tools. Maps became an important part of life whose conversion from satellite images may be a bit expensive but Generative models can pander to this challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Vaishali Ingale , Rishabh Singh , Pragati Patwal

Evaluation of AI systems often requires synthetic test cases, particularly for rare or safety-critical conditions that are difficult to observe in operational data. Generative AI offers a promising approach for producing such data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Damian J. Ruck , Paul Vautravers , Oliver Chalkley , Jake Thomas

We propose a novel approach for generating high-quality, synthetic data for domain-specific learning tasks, for which training data may not be readily available. We leverage recent progress in image-to-image translation to bridge the gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Gregory J. Stein , Nicholas Roy

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

This paper presents an improved scheme for the generation and adaption of synthetic images for the training of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) to perform the object detection task in smart vending machines. While generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Kai Wang , Fuyuan Shi , Wenqi Wang , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Generative AI offers new opportunities for automating urban planning by creating site-specific urban layouts and enabling flexible design exploration. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce realistic and practical designs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qingyi Wang , Yuebing Liang , Yunhan Zheng , Kaiyuan Xu , Jinhua Zhao , Shenhao Wang

Thanks to the remarkable advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs), it is becoming increasingly easy to generate/manipulate images. The existing works have mainly focused on deepfake in face images and videos. However, we are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Sid Ahmed Fezza , Mohammed Yasser Ouis , Bachir Kaddar , Wassim Hamidouche , Abdenour Hadid

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

Recent breakthroughs in synthetic data generation approaches made it possible to produce highly photorealistic images which are hardly distinguishable from real ones. Furthermore, synthetic generation pipelines have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Matan Fintz , Gerard Medioni