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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

Over the past few years there has been major progress in the field of synthetic data generation using simulation based techniques. These methods use high-end graphics engines and physics-based ray-tracing rendering in order to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Paul Yudkin , Eli Friedman , Orly Zvitia , Gil Elbaz

We present En3D, an enhanced generative scheme for sculpting high-quality 3D human avatars. Unlike previous works that rely on scarce 3D datasets or limited 2D collections with imbalanced viewing angles and imprecise pose priors, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yifang Men , Biwen Lei , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Zhouhui Lian , Xuansong Xie

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

We address the computational problem of novel human pose synthesis. Given an image of a person and a desired pose, we produce a depiction of that person in that pose, retaining the appearance of both the person and background. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Adrian V. Dalca , Fredo Durand , John Guttag

Recent work on image anonymization has shown that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate near-photorealistic faces to anonymize individuals. However, scaling up these networks to the entire human body has remained a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Håkon Hukkelås , Morten Smebye , Rudolf Mester , Frank Lindseth

Significant advancements have been made in semantic image synthesis in remote sensing. However, existing methods still face formidable challenges in balancing semantic controllability and diversity. In this paper, we present a Hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Junde Liu , Danpei Zhao , Bo Yuan , Wentao Li , Tian Li

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

The field of controllable image generation has seen significant advancements, with various architectures improving generation layout consistency with control signals. However, contemporary methods still face challenges in bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent text-to-3D methods employing diffusion models have made significant advancements in 3D human generation. However, these approaches face challenges due to the limitations of text-to-image diffusion models, which lack an understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xin Huang , Ruizhi Shao , Qi Zhang , Hongwen Zhang , Ying Feng , Yebin Liu , Qing Wang

In this paper, we present DeepSIM, a generative model for conditional image manipulation based on a single image. We find that extensive augmentation is key for enabling single image training, and incorporate the use of thin-plate-spline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yael Vinker , Eliahu Horwitz , Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

In this paper, we present DeepSIM, a generative model for conditional image manipulation based on a single image. We find that extensive augmentation is key for enabling single image training, and incorporate the use of thin-plate-spline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Yael Vinker , Eliahu Horwitz , Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

In medical imaging, image synthesis is the estimation process of one image (sequence, modality) from another image (sequence, modality). Since images with different modalities provide diverse biomarkers and capture various features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Firoozeh Shomal Zadeh , Sevda Molani , Maysam Orouskhani , Marziyeh Rezaei , Mehrzad Shafiei , Hossein Abbasi

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

The generation of 3D models from real-world objects has often been accomplished through photogrammetry, i.e., by taking 2D photos from a variety of perspectives and then triangulating matched point-based features to create a textured mesh.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jacob Rubinstein , Avi Donaty , Don Engel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms that can produce realistic images from randomly-sampled vectors in a multi-dimensional space. Until recently, it was not possible to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , J. Peter Campbell , Susan Ostmo , Michael F. Chiang , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

We present a novel framework for multi-domain synthesis of artwork from semantic layouts. One of the main limitations of this challenging task is the lack of publicly available segmentation datasets for art synthesis. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yuantian Huang , Satoshi Iizuka , Edgar Simo-Serra , Kazuhiro Fukui

We present an approach to enhancing the realism of synthetic images. The images are enhanced by a convolutional network that leverages intermediate representations produced by conventional rendering pipelines. The network is trained via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Stephan R. Richter , Hassan Abu AlHaija , Vladlen Koltun