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Cardiac image segmentation is an important step in many cardiac image analysis and modeling tasks such as motion tracking or simulations of cardiac mechanics. While deep learning has greatly advanced segmentation in clinical settings, there…

We present a method for inferring dense depth maps from images and sparse depth measurements by leveraging synthetic data to learn the association of sparse point clouds with dense natural shapes, and using the image as evidence to validate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Alex Wong , Safa Cicek , Stefano Soatto

Synthetic-to-real transfer learning is a framework in which a synthetically generated dataset is used to pre-train a model to improve its performance on real vision tasks. The most significant advantage of using synthetic images is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hiroaki Mikami , Kenji Fukumizu , Shogo Murai , Shuji Suzuki , Yuta Kikuchi , Taiji Suzuki , Shin-ichi Maeda , Kohei Hayashi

Training data is at the core of any successful text-to-image models. The quality and descriptiveness of image text are crucial to a model's performance. Given the noisiness and inconsistency in web-scraped datasets, recent works shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Hareesh Ravi , Kristian Kersting , Ajinkya Kale

The rise of In-Context Learning (ICL) for universal medical image segmentation has introduced an unprecedented demand for large-scale, diverse datasets for training, exacerbating the long-standing problem of data scarcity. While data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jiesi Hu , Yanwu Yang , Zhiyu Ye , Chenfei Ye , Hanyang Peng , Jianfeng Cao , Ting Ma

The success and generalisation of deep learning algorithms heavily depend on learning good feature representations. In medical imaging this entails representing anatomical information, as well as properties related to the specific imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Agisilaos Chartsias , Thomas Joyce , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Scott Semple , Michelle Williams , David Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

In order to reduce overfitting, neural networks are typically trained with data augmentation, the practice of artificially generating additional training data via label-preserving transformations of existing training examples. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Synthetic data is a powerful tool in training data hungry deep learning algorithms. However, to date, camera-based physiological sensing has not taken full advantage of these techniques. In this work, we leverage a high-fidelity synthetics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Daniel McDuff , Xin Liu , Javier Hernandez , Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrusaitis

Medical images with specific pathologies are scarce, but a large amount of data is usually required for a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to achieve good accuracy. We consider the problem of segmenting the left ventricular (LV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Felix Lau , Tom Hendriks , Jesse Lieman-Sifry , Berk Norman , Sean Sall , Daniel Golden

The task of multimodal relation extraction has attracted significant research attention, but progress is constrained by the scarcity of available training data. One natural thought is to extend existing datasets with cross-modal generative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zilin Du , Haoxin Li , Xu Guo , Boyang Li

Deep learning (DL) powered biomedical ultrasound imaging is an emerging research field where researchers adapt the image analysis capabilities of DL algorithms to biomedical ultrasound imaging settings. A major roadblock to wider adoption…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Ufuk Soylu , Michael L. Oelze

Textual graphs (TGs) are graphs whose nodes correspond to text (sentences or documents), which are widely prevalent. The representation learning of TGs involves two stages: (i) unsupervised feature extraction and (ii) supervised graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keyu Duan , Qian Liu , Tat-Seng Chua , Shuicheng Yan , Wei Tsang Ooi , Qizhe Xie , Junxian He

Medical report generation demands automatic creation of coherent and precise descriptions for medical images. However, the scarcity of labelled medical image-report pairs poses formidable challenges in developing large-scale neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shibin Wu , Bang Yang , Zhiyu Ye , Haoqian Wang , Hairong Zheng , Tong Zhang

The generalization capability of deepfake detectors is critical for real-world use. Data augmentation via synthetic fake face generation effectively enhances generalization, yet current SoTA methods rely on fixed strategies-raising a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuxuan Zhou , Tao Yu , Wen Huang , Yuheng Zhang , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Text-to-image generation intends to automatically produce a photo-realistic image, conditioned on a textual description. It can be potentially employed in the field of art creation, data augmentation, photo-editing, etc. Although many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker

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

Contrastive learning (CL) has become a dominant paradigm for self-supervised hypergraph learning, enabling effective training without costly labels. However, node entities in real-world hypergraphs are often associated with rich textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mengting Pan , Fan Li , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Wenjie Zhang

Deep learning based image enhancement models have largely improved the readability of fundus images in order to decrease the uncertainty of clinical observations and the risk of misdiagnosis. However, due to the difficulty of acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Erjian Guo , Huazhu Fu , Luping Zhou , Dong Xu

Automatic ICD coding from clinical text is a critical task in medical NLP but remains hindered by the extreme long-tail distribution of diagnostic codes. Thousands of rare and zero-shot ICD codes are severely underrepresented in datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Truong Vo , Weiyi Wu , Kaize Ding

This paper extensively investigates the effectiveness of synthetic training data to improve the capabilities of vision-and-language models for grounding textual descriptions to image regions. We explore various strategies to best generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ruozhen He , Ziyan Yang , Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Alexander C. Berg , Vicente Ordonez