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Field detection in team sports is an essential task in sports video analysis. However, collecting large-scale and diverse real-world datasets for training detection models is often cost and time-consuming. Synthetic datasets, which allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 HaoBin Qin , Jiale Fang , Keisuke Fujii

Recent text-to-image generation models have shown promising results in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Though the results are astonishing to human eyes, how applicable these generated images are for recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Ruifei He , Shuyang Sun , Xin Yu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Recent advances in stereo matching have focused on accuracy, often at the cost of significantly increased model size. Traditionally, the community has regarded efficient models as incapable of zero-shot ability due to their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Junpeng Jing , Weixun Luo , Ye Mao , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Stereo foundation models achieve strong zero-shot generalization but remain computationally prohibitive for real-time applications. Efficient stereo architectures, on the other hand, sacrifice robustness for speed and require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bowen Wen , Shaurya Dewan , Stan Birchfield

Data generation-based zero-shot learning, although effective in training Small Task-specific Models (STMs) via synthetic datasets generated by Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), is often limited by the low quality of such synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Tianyuan Zou , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Jianqing Zhang , Jingjing Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang

Synthetic data is being used lately for training deep neural networks in computer vision applications such as object detection, object segmentation and 6D object pose estimation. Domain randomization hereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Parth Rawal , Mrunal Sompura , Wolfgang Hintze

Generative text-to-image models enable us to synthesize unlimited amounts of images in a controllable manner, spurring many recent efforts to train vision models with synthetic data. However, every synthetic image ultimately originates from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Scott Geng , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Vivek Ramanujan , Matthew Wallingford , Chun-Liang Li , Pang Wei Koh , Ranjay Krishna

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

While significant research efforts have been directed toward developing more capable neural decoding architectures, comparatively little attention has been paid to the quality of training data. In this study, we address the challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ahmad Ismail , Raphaël Le Bidan , Elsa Dupraz , Charbel Abdel-Nour

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

Pre-training and transfer learning are an important building block of current computer vision systems. While pre-training is usually performed on large real-world image datasets, in this paper we ask whether this is truly necessary. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ryo Nakamura , Ryu Tadokoro , Ryosuke Yamada , Yuki M. Asano , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Nakamasa Inoue , Rio Yokota , Hirokatsu Kataoka

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising framework for training agents using pre-collected datasets without the need for further environment interaction. However, policies trained on offline data often struggle to generalise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ahmet H. Güzel , Ilija Bogunovic , Jack Parker-Holder

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

Programmatically generated synthetic data has been used in differential private training for classification to enhance performance without privacy leakage. However, as the synthetic data is generated from a random process, the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Junyoung Byun , Jaewook Lee

Stereo matching plays a crucial role in enabling depth perception for autonomous driving and robotics. While recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in stereo matching algorithms, largely driven by learning-based methods and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xianda Guo , Chenming Zhang , Ruilin Wang , Youmin Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Matteo Poggi , Hao Zhao , Qin Zou , Long Chen

This paper addresses the challenge of speaker separation, which remains an active research topic despite the promising results achieved in recent years. These results, however, often degrade in real recording conditions due to the presence…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Rawad Melhem , Assef Jafar , Oumayma Al Dakkak

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

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

Stereo matching methods rely on dense pixel-wise ground truth labels, which are laborious to obtain, especially for real-world datasets. The scarcity of labeled data and domain gaps between synthetic and real-world images also pose notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yuran Wang , Yingping Liang , Ying Fu