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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

Annotated datasets are critical for training neural networks for object detection, yet their manual creation is time- and labour-intensive, subjective to human error, and often limited in diversity. This challenge is particularly pronounced…

Deep learning methods typically require vast amounts of training data to reach their full potential. While some publicly available datasets exists, domain specific data always needs to be collected and manually labeled, an expensive, time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Stefan Hinterstoisser , Olivier Pauly , Hauke Heibel , Martina Marek , Martin Bokeloh

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

Drone detection has benefited from improvements in deep neural networks, but like many other applications, suffers from the availability of accurate data for training. Synthetic data provides a potential for low-cost data generation and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mariusz Wisniewski , Zeeshan A. Rana , Ivan Petrunin , Alan Holt , Stephen Harman

Synthetic data offers a compelling path to scalable pretraining when real-world data is scarce, but models pretrained on synthetic data often fail to transfer reliably to deployment settings. We study this problem in full-body human motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Firas Darwish , George Nicholson , Aiden Doherty , Hang Yuan

Real-world images used for training machine learning algorithms are often unstructured and inconsistent. The process of analysing and tagging these images can be costly and error prone (also availability, gaps and legal conundrums).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jose Cerqueira Fernandes , Benjamin Kenwright

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Adam Kortylewski , Andreas Schneider , Thomas Gerig , Bernhard Egger , Andreas Morel-Forster , Thomas Vetter

Synthetic datasets are a crucial ingredient for training stereo matching networks, but the question of what makes a stereo dataset effective remains underexplored. We investigate the design space of synthetic datasets by varying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 David Yan , Alexander Raistrick , Jia Deng

Recent work has focused on generating synthetic imagery to increase the size and variability of training data for learning visual tasks in urban scenes. This includes increasing the occurrence of occlusions or varying environmental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Recent scene text detection methods are almost based on deep learning and data-driven. Synthetic data is commonly adopted for pre-training due to expensive annotation cost. However, there are obvious domain discrepancies between synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Youhui Guo , Yu Zhou , Xugong Qin , Enze Xie , Weiping Wang

Training a deep network to perform semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled data. To alleviate the manual effort of annotating real images, researchers have investigated the use of synthetic data, which can be labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez

Neural networks need big annotated datasets for training. However, manual annotation can be too expensive or even unfeasible for certain tasks, like multi-person 2D pose estimation with severe occlusions. A remedy for this is synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Micheal J. Black , Siyu Tang

The rapid progress in machine learning models has significantly boosted the potential for real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, disease diagnoses, and recognition of emergencies. The performance of many machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Sergei Voronin , Abubakar Siddique , Muhammad Iqbal

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

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

Recent advances in generative AI, particularly in computer vision (CV), offer new opportunities to optimize workflows across industries, including logistics and manufacturing. However, many AI applications are limited by a lack of expertise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muammer Bay , Timo von Marcard , Dren Fazlija

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

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