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Synthetic data is emerging as a cost-effective solution necessary to meet the increasing data demands of AI development, created either from existing knowledge or derived from real data. The traditional classification of synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Serena Elizabeth Marshall , Aleksandar Babic , Jan Franz Nygaard

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

Face recognition capabilities have recently made extraordinary leaps. Though this progress is at least partially due to ballooning training set sizes -- huge numbers of face images downloaded and labeled for identity -- it is not clear if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Iacopo Masi , Anh Tuan Tran , Jatuporn Toy Leksut , Tal Hassner , Gerard Medioni

Cross-domain synthesizing realistic faces to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention for facial expression analysis as it helps to improve the performance of expression recognition accuracy despite having small number of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazim Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

The availability of genomic data is essential to progress in biomedical research, personalized medicine, etc. However, its extreme sensitivity makes it problematic, if not outright impossible, to publish or share it. As a result, several…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Bristena Oprisanu , Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

This paper studies how to synthesize face images of non-existent persons, to create a dataset that allows effective training of face recognition (FR) models. Besides generating realistic face images, two other important goals are: 1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Haiyu Wu , Jaskirat Singh , Sicong Tian , Liang Zheng , Kevin W. Bowyer

The generation of privacy-preserving synthetic datasets is a promising avenue for overcoming data scarcity in medical AI research. Post-hoc privacy filtering techniques, designed to remove samples containing personally identifiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Adil Koeken , Alexander Ziller , Moritz Knolle , Daniel Rueckert

Algorithms learn rules and associations based on the training data that they are exposed to. Yet, the very same data that teaches machines to understand and predict the world, contains societal and historic biases, resulting in biased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Paul Tiwald , Alexandra Ebert , Daniel T. Soukup

One of the main challenges faced by Biometric-based authentication systems is the need to offer secure authentication while maintaining the privacy of the biometric data. Previous solutions, such as Secure Sketch and Fuzzy Extractors, rely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Mor Ohana , Orr Dunkelman , Stuart Gibson , Margarita Osadchy

As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging. We propose a new hybrid approach to obfuscate identities in photos by head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Qianru Sun , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Mario Fritz , Christian Theobalt , Bernt Schiele

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, but it requires access to health data. Synthetic data that is generated through machine learning models trained on real data, offers a way to share data while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Anne Kjersti C. Befring , Severin Elvatun , Jan Franz Nygaard

Synthetic data has been considered a better privacy-preserving alternative to traditionally sanitized data across various applications. However, a recent article challenges this notion, stating that synthetic data does not provide a better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fatima Jahan Sarmin , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Yang Wang , Noman Mohammed

Face detection is one of the most studied topics in the computer vision community. Much of the progresses have been made by the availability of face detection benchmark datasets. We show that there is a gap between current face detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Shuo Yang , Ping Luo , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

We demonstrate that it is possible to perform face-related computer vision in the wild using synthetic data alone. The community has long enjoyed the benefits of synthesizing training data with graphics, but the domain gap between real and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Erroll Wood , Tadas Baltrušaitis , Charlie Hewitt , Sebastian Dziadzio , Matthew Johnson , Virginia Estellers , Thomas J. Cashman , Jamie Shotton

Biometric data contains distinctive human traits such as facial features or gait patterns. The use of biometric data permits an individuation so exact that the data is utilized effectively in identification and authentication systems. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Jose Patino , Nicholas Evans , Thorsten Strufe

The possibility of carrying out a meaningful forensics analysis on printed and scanned images plays a major role in many applications. First of all, printed documents are often associated with criminal activities, such as terrorist plans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Anselmo Ferreira , Ehsan Nowroozi , Mauro Barni

Algorithmic hiring has become increasingly necessary in some sectors as it promises to deal with hundreds or even thousands of applicants. At the heart of these systems are algorithms designed to retrieve and rank candidate profiles, which…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jorge Saldivar , Anna Gatzioura , Carlos Castillo

Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) have enabled increasingly sophisticated face forgeries, posing a significant threat to social security. However, current Deepfake detection methods are limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Changtao Miao , Yi Zhang , Man Luo , Weiwei Feng , Kaiyuan Zheng , Qi Chu , Tao Gong , Jianshu Li , Yunfeng Diao , Wei Zhou , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Hao

It is well known that the performance of any classification model is effective if the dataset used for the training process and the test process satisfy some specific requirements. In other words, the more the dataset size is large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Hazem Zein , Samer Chantaf , Régis Fournier , Amine Nait-Ali