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Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

While developing perception based deep learning models, the benefit of synthetic data is enormous. However, performance of networks trained with synthetic data for certain computer vision tasks degrade significantly when tested on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Koustav Mullick , Harshil Jain , Sanchit Gupta , Amit Arvind Kale

We introduce Boundless, a photo-realistic synthetic data generation system for enabling highly accurate object detection in dense urban streetscapes. Boundless can replace massive real-world data collection and manual ground-truth object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Yuyang Li , Chengbo Zang , Javad Ghaderi , Gil Zussman , Zoran Kostic

Despite the impressive progress brought by deep network in visual object recognition, robot vision is still far from being a solved problem. The most successful convolutional architectures are developed starting from ImageNet, a large scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Antonio D'Innocente , Fabio Maria Carlucci , Mirco Colosi , Barbara Caputo

Synthetic data serves as an alternative in training machine learning models, particularly when real-world data is limited or inaccessible. However, ensuring that synthetic data mirrors the complex nuances of real-world data is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lasse Hansen , Nabeel Seedat , Mihaela van der Schaar , Andrija Petrovic

Data scarcity and the high cost of annotation have long been persistent challenges in the field of materials science. Inspired by its potential in other fields like computer vision, we propose the MatWheel framework, which train the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wentao Li , Yizhe Chen , Jiangjie Qiu , Xiaonan Wang

Synthetic image generation has opened up new opportunities but has also created threats in regard to privacy, authenticity, and security. Detecting fake images is of paramount importance to prevent illegal activities, and previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Md Awsafur Rahman , Bishmoy Paul , Najibul Haque Sarker , Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah

In this work, we present an application of domain randomization and generative adversarial networks (GAN) to train a near real-time object detector for industrial electric parts, entirely in a simulated environment. Large scale availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Fernando Camaro Nogues , Andrew Huie , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Neural networks need big annotated datasets for training. However, manual annotation can be too expensive or even unfeasible for certain tasks, like multi-person 2D pose estimation with severe occlusions. A remedy for this is synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Micheal J. Black , Siyu Tang

Deep learning has rapidly transformed the state of the art algorithms used to address a variety of problems in computer vision and robotics. These breakthroughs have relied upon massive amounts of human annotated training data. This time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Charles Barto , Rounak Mehta , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Karl Rosaen , Ram Vasudevan

The study of ancient documents provides a glimpse into our past. However, the low image quality and intricate details commonly found in these documents present significant challenges for accurate object detection. The objective of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zahra Ziran , Francesco Leotta , Massimo Mecella

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

Machine learning heavily relies on data, but real-world applications often encounter various data-related issues. These include data of poor quality, insufficient data points leading to under-fitting of machine learning models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yingzhou Lu , Lulu Chen , Yuanyuan Zhang , Minjie Shen , Huazheng Wang , Xiao Wang , Capucine van Rechem , Tianfan Fu , Wenqi Wei

Unsupervised transfer of object recognition models from synthetic to real data is an important problem with many potential applications. The challenge is how to "adapt" a model trained on simulated images so that it performs well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Xingchao Peng , Ben Usman , Kuniaki Saito , Neela Kaushik , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko

Leveraging synthetically rendered data offers great potential to improve monocular depth estimation and other geometric estimation tasks, but closing the synthetic-real domain gap is a non-trivial and important task. While much recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yunhan Zhao , Shu Kong , Daeyun Shin , Charless Fowlkes

In the past utilities relied on in-field inspections to identify asset defects. Recently, utilities have started using drone-based inspections to enhance the field-inspection process. We consider a vast repository of drone images, providing…

As the demand for high-quality training data escalates, researchers have increasingly turned to generative models to create synthetic data, addressing data scarcity and enabling continuous model improvement. However, reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zeliang Zhang , Xin Liang , Mingqian Feng , Susan Liang , Chenliang Xu

This paper investigates the impact of various data augmentation techniques on the performance of object detection models. Specifically, we explore classical augmentation methods, image compositing, and advanced generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ang Jia Ning Shermaine , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Exploiting synthetic data to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the intrinsic domain difference between synthetic and real images usually causes a significant performance drop when applying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

Synthetic datasets, recognized for their cost effectiveness, play a pivotal role in advancing computer vision tasks and techniques. However, when it comes to remote sensing image processing, the creation of synthetic datasets becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jian Song , Hongruixuan Chen , Naoto Yokoya