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This paper demonstrates how to use generative models trained for image synthesis as tools for visual data mining. Our insight is that since contemporary generative models learn an accurate representation of their training data, we can use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Ioannis Siglidis , Aleksander Holynski , Alexei A. Efros , Mathieu Aubry , Shiry Ginosar

Recent advances in generative models facilitate the creation of synthetic data to be made available for research in privacy-sensitive contexts. However, the analysis of synthetic data raises a unique set of methodological challenges. In…

Generative models for high-quality materials are particularly desirable to make 3D content authoring more accessible. However, the majority of material generation methods are trained on synthetic data. Synthetic data provides precise…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most robust and versatile techniques in the field of generative artificial intelligence. In this work, we report on an application of GANs in the domain of synthetic spectral data…

Synthetic data is a useful resource for algorithmic research. It allows for the evaluation of systems under a range of conditions that might be difficult to achieve in real world settings. In recommender systems, the use of synthetic data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Elena Stefancova , Cassidy All , Joshua Paup , Martin Homola , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

Microstructures of a material form the bridge linking processing conditions - which can be controlled, to the material property - which is the primary interest in engineering applications. Thus a critical task in material design is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Akshay Iyer , Biswadip Dey , Arindam Dasgupta , Wei Chen , Amit Chakraborty

Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Denis Zavadski , Damjan Kalšan , Tim Küchler , Haebom Lee , Stefan Roth , Carsten Rother

Synthetic data offers a scalable solution for vision-language pre-training, yet current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on scaling up a single generative backbone, which introduces generator-specific spectral biases and limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Leonardo Brusini , Cristian Sbrolli , Eugenio Lomurno , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Matteo Matteucci

Although highly valuable for a variety of applications, urban mobility data is rarely made openly available as it contains sensitive personal information. Synthetic data aims to solve this issue by generating artificial data that resembles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Alexandra Kapp , Julia Hansmeyer , Helena Mihaljević

In this paper, we demonstrate how a generative model can be used to build a better recognizer through the control of content and style. We are building an online handwriting recognizer from a modest amount of training samples. By training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Martin Bresler , Youssouf Chherawala , Adrien Delaye , Thomas Deselaers , Ryan Dixon , Oncel Tuzel

It is important to accurately model materials' properties at lower length scales (micro-level) while translating the effects to the components and/or system level (macro-level) can significantly reduce the amount of experimentation required…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Kazuma Kobayashi , Shoaib Usman , Carlos Castano , Dinesh Kumar , Syed Alam

The great success of machine learning with massive amounts of data comes at a price of huge computation costs and storage for training and tuning. Recent studies on dataset condensation attempt to reduce the dependence on such massive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jang-Hyun Kim , Jinuk Kim , Seong Joon Oh , Sangdoo Yun , Hwanjun Song , Joonhyun Jeong , Jung-Woo Ha , Hyun Oh Song

Autonomous driving techniques have been flourishing in recent years while thirsting for huge amounts of high-quality data. However, it is difficult for real-world datasets to keep up with the pace of changing requirements due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Zhihang Song , Zimin He , Xingyu Li , Qiming Ma , Ruibo Ming , Zhiqi Mao , Huaxin Pei , Lihui Peng , Jianming Hu , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

Natural language serves as a common and straightforward signal for humans to interact seamlessly with machines. Recognizing the importance of this interface, the machine learning community is investing considerable effort in generating data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shiyu Wang , Yihao Feng , Tian Lan , Ning Yu , Yu Bai , Ran Xu , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese

In the field of autonomous driving, sensor simulation is essential for generating rare and diverse scenarios that are difficult to capture in real-world environments. Current solutions fall into two categories: 1) CG-based methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhengqing Chen , Ruohong Mei , Xiaoyang Guo , Qingjie Wang , Yubin Hu , Wei Yin , Weiqiang Ren , Qian Zhang

Data scarcity remains a critical bottleneck impeding technological advancements across various domains, including but not limited to medicine and precision agriculture. To address this challenge, we explore the potential of Deep Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Marco Salmè , Lorenzo Tronchin , Rosa Sicilia , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

Materials synthesis optimization is constrained by serial feedback processes that rely on manual tools and intuition across multiple siloed modes of characterization. We automate and generalize feature extraction of reflection high-energy…

Concrete is the most widely used engineered material in the world with more than 10 billion tons produced annually. Unfortunately, with that scale comes a significant burden in terms of energy, water, and release of greenhouse gases and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Xiou Ge , Richard T. Goodwin , Jeremy R. Gregory , Randolph E. Kirchain , Joana Maria , Lav R. Varshney

Collecting and annotating real-world data for the development of object detection models is a time-consuming and expensive process. In the military domain in particular, data collection can also be dangerous or infeasible. Training models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Frank A. Ruis , Alma M. Liezenga , Friso G. Heslinga , Luca Ballan , Thijs A. Eker , Richard J. M. den Hollander , Martin C. van Leeuwen , Judith Dijk , Wyke Huizinga

Synthetic data is becoming an increasingly promising technology, and successful applications can improve privacy, fairness, and data democratization. While there are many methods for generating synthetic tabular data, the task remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Alexander Norcliffe , Bogdan Cebere , Fergus Imrie , Pietro Lio , Mihaela van der Schaar