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During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, to train CNNs…

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Semantic segmentation models only perform well on the domain they are trained on and datasets for training are scarce and often have a small label-spaces, because the pixel level annotations required are expensive to make. Thus training…

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Driving scene parsing is critical for autonomous vehicles to operate reliably in complex real-world traffic environments. To reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations, synthetic datasets with automatically generated labels have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiahe Fan , Xiao Ma , Sergey Vityazev , George Giakos , Shaolong Shu , Rui Fan

Using synthetic data for training neural networks that achieve good performance on real-world data is an important task as it can reduce the need for costly data annotation. Yet, synthetic and real world data have a domain gap. Reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Shahaf Ettedgui , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

Training of semantic segmentation models for material analysis requires micrographs and their corresponding masks. It is quite unlikely that perfect masks will be drawn, especially at the edges of objects, and sometimes the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Matias Oscar Volman Stern , Dominic Hohs , Andreas Jansche , Timo Bernthaler , Gerhard Schneider

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

Recently, increasing attention has been drawn to training semantic segmentation models using synthetic data and computer-generated annotation. However, domain gap remains a major barrier and prevents models learned from synthetic data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Xiaoran Chen , Luc Van Gool

Robot perception systems need to perform reliable image segmentation in real-time on noisy, raw perception data. State-of-the-art segmentation approaches use large CNN models and carefully constructed datasets; however, these models focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jonathan C Balloch , Varun Agrawal , Irfan Essa , Sonia Chernova

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Training convolutional networks for semantic segmentation requires per-pixel ground truth labels, which are very time consuming and hence costly to obtain. Therefore, in this work, we research and develop a hierarchical deep network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Panagiotis Meletis , Gijs Dubbelman

Recently, learning-based image synthesis has enabled to generate high-resolution images, either applying popular adversarial training or a powerful perceptual loss. However, it remains challenging to successfully leverage synthetic data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Yang He , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Image segmentation is a powerful computer vision technique for scene understanding. However, real-world deployment is stymied by the need for high-quality, meticulously labeled datasets. Synthetic data provides high-quality labels while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Edward Humes , Xiaomin Lin , Boxun Hu , Rithvik Jonna , Tinoosh Mohsenin

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

The usefulness of deep learning models in robotics is largely dependent on the availability of training data. Manual annotation of training data is often infeasible. Synthetic data is a viable alternative, but suffers from domain gap. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Benedikt T. Imbusch , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

Deep learning has significantly advanced building segmentation in remote sensing, yet models struggle to generalize on data of diverse geographic regions due to variations in city layouts and the distribution of building types, sizes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Song , Yang Tang , Rongjun Qin

Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zuxuan Wu , Xintong Han , Yen-Liang Lin , Mustafa Gkhan Uzunbas , Tom Goldstein , Ser Nam Lim , Larry S. Davis

Domain shift is a very challenging problem for semantic segmentation. Any model can be easily trained on synthetic data, where images and labels are artificially generated, but it will perform poorly when deployed on real environments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Luigi Musto , Andrea Zinelli

Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced the generation of high-fidelity, photo-realistic images from textual descriptions. Yet, these models often struggle with interpreting spatial arrangements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jiaqi Liu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

This paper focuses on the unsupervised domain adaptation of transferring the knowledge from the source domain to the target domain in the context of semantic segmentation. Existing approaches usually regard the pseudo label as the ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhedong Zheng , Yi Yang

Semantic segmentation methods have achieved outstanding performance thanks to deep learning. Nevertheless, when such algorithms are deployed to new contexts not seen during training, it is necessary to collect and label scene-specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Daniele Di Mauro , Antonino Furnari , Giuseppe Patanè , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Maria Farinella