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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

Owing to the typical long-tail data distribution issues, simulating domain-gap-free synthetic data is crucial in robotics, photogrammetry, and computer vision research. The fundamental challenge pertains to credibly measuring the difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Nguyen Duc , Yan-Ling Lai , Patrick Madlindl , Xinyuan Zhu , Benedikt Schwab , Olaf Wysocki , Ludwig Hoegner , Thomas H. Kolbe

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

In recent years, synthetic data has been widely used in the training of 6D pose estimation networks, in part because it automatically provides perfect annotation at low cost. However, there are still non-trivial domain gaps, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Takuya Ikeda , Suomi Tanishige , Ayako Amma , Michael Sudano , Hervé Audren , Koichi Nishiwaki

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting between traditional resampling techniques and modern deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Federated domain generalization has shown promising progress in image classification by enabling collaborative training across multiple clients without sharing raw data. However, its potential in the semantic segmentation of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Tao Lian , Jose L. Gómez , Antonio M. López

We propose SADGE, a quantitative similarity metric that predicts the performance of synthetic image datasets for common computer vision tasks without downstream model training. Estimating whether a synthetic dataset will lead to a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Patryk Bartkowiak , Bartosz Kotrys , Dominik Michels , Soren Pirk , Wojtek Palubicki

Semantic segmentation networks require large amounts of pixel-level annotated data, which are costly to obtain for real-world images. Computer graphics engines can generate synthetic images alongside their ground-truth annotations. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Estelle Chigot , Thomas Oberlin , Manon Huguenin , Dennis Wilson

Personalization, while extensively studied in conventional autonomous driving pipelines, has been largely overlooked in the context of end-to-end autonomous driving (E2EAD), despite its critical role in fostering user trust, safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ruiyang Hao , Bowen Jing , Haibao Yu , Zaiqing Nie

Few-shot image classification remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled training examples. Augmenting them with synthetic data has emerged as a promising way to alleviate this issue, but models trained on synthetic samples often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lan-Cuong Nguyen , Quan Nguyen-Tri , Bang Tran Khanh , Dung D. Le , Long Tran-Thanh , Khoat Than

The usage of environment sensor models for virtual testing is a promising approach to reduce the testing effort of autonomous driving. However, in order to deduce any statements regarding the performance of an autonomous driving function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Anthony Ngo , Max Paul Bauer , Michael Resch

Semantic Segmentation is essential to make self-driving vehicles autonomous, enabling them to understand their surroundings by assigning individual pixels to known categories. However, it operates on sensible data collected from the users'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lidia Fantauzzo , Eros Fanì , Debora Caldarola , Antonio Tavera , Fabio Cermelli , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

As perception models continue to develop, the need for large-scale datasets increases. However, data annotation remains far too expensive to effectively scale and meet the demand. Synthetic datasets provide a solution to boost model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Arpit Jadon , Haoran Wang , Phillip Thomas , Michael Stanley , S. Nathaniel Cibik , Rachel Laurat , Omar Maher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai

Accurate lane detection, a crucial enabler for autonomous driving, currently relies on obtaining a large and diverse labeled training dataset. In this work, we explore learning from abundant, randomly generated synthetic data, together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Noa Garnett , Roy Uziel , Netalee Efrat , Dan Levi

With the increasing safety validation requirements for the release of a self-driving car, alternative approaches, such as simulation-based testing, are emerging in addition to conventional real-world testing. In order to rely on virtual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Anthony Ngo , Max Paul Bauer , Michael Resch

This paper introduces a novel synthetic dataset that captures urban scenes under a variety of weather conditions, providing pixel-perfect, ground-truth-aligned images to facilitate effective feature alignment across domains. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Javier Montalvo , Roberto Alcover-Couso , Pablo Carballeira , Álvaro García-Martín , Juan C. SanMiguel , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo

Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within a specific domain can be prohibitively expensive due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Yuxin Wen , Michael Spranger , Lingjuan Lyu

Great progress has been achieved in the community of autonomous driving in the past few years. As a safety-critical problem, however, anomaly detection is a huge hurdle towards a large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Daniel Bogdoll , Meng Zhang , Maximilian Nitsche , J. Marius Zöllner

Smart vehicles produce large amounts of data, much of which is sensitive and at risk of privacy breaches. As attackers increasingly exploit anonymised metadata within these datasets to profile drivers, it's important to find solutions that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krish Parikh