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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

This paper addresses key aspects of domain randomization in generating synthetic data for manufacturing object detection applications. To this end, we present a comprehensive data generation pipeline that reflects different factors: object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaomeng Zhu , Jacob Henningsson , Duruo Li , Pär Mårtensson , Lars Hanson , Mårten Björkman , Atsuto Maki

Deep Learning has seen an unprecedented increase in vision applications since the publication of large-scale object recognition datasets and introduction of scalable compute hardware. State-of-the-art methods for most vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nikita Jaipuria , Xianling Zhang , Rohan Bhasin , Mayar Arafa , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Sagar Manglani , Vidya N. Murali

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

We describe a novel learning-by-synthesis method for estimating gaze direction of an automated intelligent surveillance system. Recently, progress in learning-by-synthesis has proposed training models on synthetic images, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Zetian Mi , Xianping Fu

We present an approach to synthesize highly photorealistic images of 3D object models, which we use to train a convolutional neural network for detecting the objects in real images. The proposed approach has three key ingredients: (1) 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Tomas Hodan , Vibhav Vineet , Ran Gal , Emanuel Shalev , Jon Hanzelka , Treb Connell , Pedro Urbina , Sudipta N. Sinha , Brian Guenter

Modern machine learning models for scene understanding, such as depth estimation and object tracking, rely on large, high-quality datasets that mimic real-world deployment scenarios. To address data scarcity, we propose an end-to-end system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sonia Laguna , Alberto Garcia-Garcia , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Stylianos Moschoglou , Leonhard Helminger , Sergio Orts-Escolano

Existing generative approaches for guided image synthesis of multi-object scenes typically rely on 2D controls in the image or text space. As a result, these methods struggle to maintain and respect consistent three-dimensional geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Léopold Maillard , Tom Durand , Adrien Ramanana Rahary , Maks Ovsjanikov

While modern Requirements Engineering (RE) heavily relies on natural language processing and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, their effectiveness is limited by the scarcity of high-quality datasets. This paper introduces Synthline, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Abdelkarim El-Hajjami , Camille Salinesi

When training object detection models on synthetic data, it is important to make the distribution of synthetic data as close as possible to the distribution of real data. We investigate specifically the impact of object placement…

Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not only does synthetic data help build robust AI/ML datasets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 José Pulido , Francesc Wilhelmi , Sergio Fortes , Alfonso Fernández-Durán , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Raquel Barco

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

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ruibo Liu , Jerry Wei , Fangyu Liu , Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Jinmeng Rao , Steven Zheng , Daiyi Peng , Diyi Yang , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

Object viewpoint estimation from 2D images is an essential task in computer vision. However, two issues hinder its progress: scarcity of training data with viewpoint annotations, and a lack of powerful features. Inspired by the growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Hao Su , Charles R. Qi , Yangyan Li , Leonidas Guibas

Recent advances in diffusion models enable many powerful instruments for image editing. One of these instruments is text-driven image manipulations: editing semantic attributes of an image according to the provided text description. %…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nikita Starodubcev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

The recently introduced Consistency models pose an efficient alternative to diffusion algorithms, enabling rapid and good quality image synthesis. These methods overcome the slowness of diffusion models by directly mapping noise to data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shelly Golan , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Synthetic samples from diffusion models are promising for leveraging in training discriminative models as replications of real training datasets. However, we found that the synthetic datasets degrade classification performance over real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Takuma Fukuda

This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

Text-to-image (T2I) models offer great potential for creating virtually limitless synthetic data, a valuable resource compared to fixed and finite real datasets. Previous works evaluate the utility of synthetic data from T2I models on three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhang Xiaofeng , Aaron Courville , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Learning-based algorithms for automated license plate recognition implicitly assume that the training and test data are well aligned. However, this may not be the case under extreme environmental conditions, or in forensic applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Franziska Schirrmacher , Benedikt Lorch , Anatol Maier , Christian Riess