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For camera-based satellite visual sensing, Sim2Real data construction requires images that approach real-domain sensor appearance while retaining the annotations inherited from simulation. Real sensor images of satellite targets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zongwu Xie , Yonglong Zhang , Yifan Yang , Yang Liu , Baoshi Cao

Semantic segmentation takes pivotal roles in various applications such as autonomous driving and medical image analysis. When deploying segmentation models in practice, it is critical to test their behaviors in varied and complex scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijin Yin , Bing Li , Kongming Liang , Hao Sun , Zhongjiang He , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

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

Data-driven methods such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are known to deliver state-of-the-art performance on image recognition tasks when the training data are abundant. However, in some instances, such as change detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Maria Kolos , Anton Marin , Alexey Artemov , Evgeny Burnaev

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

We present a novel domain adaptation framework that uses morphologic segmentation to translate images from arbitrary input domains (real and synthetic) into a uniform output domain. Our framework is based on an established image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Jonathan Klein , Sören Pirk , Dominik L. Michels

Pedestrian detection through Computer Vision is a building block for a multitude of applications. Recently, there was an increasing interest in Convolutional Neural Network-based architectures for the execution of such a task. One of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Luca Ciampi , Nicola Messina , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

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

The cost of large scale data collection and annotation often makes the application of machine learning algorithms to new tasks or datasets prohibitively expensive. One approach circumventing this cost is training models on synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Konstantinos Bousmalis , George Trigeorgis , Nathan Silberman , Dilip Krishnan , Dumitru Erhan

Domain adaptation for semantic segmentation enables to alleviate the need for large-scale pixel-wise annotations. Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) with a combination of image-to-image translation shows great effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Yiting Cheng , Fangyun Wei , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Wenqiang Zhang

Object detection is the key technique to a number of Computer Vision applications, but it often requires large amounts of annotated data to achieve decent results. Moreover, for pedestrian detection specifically, the collected data might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Daria Reshetova , Guanhang Wu , Marcel Puyat , Chunhui Gu , Huizhong Chen

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Ibrahim Shehi Shehu , Xianping Fu , Huibing Wang

In this paper we report on improved part segmentation performance using convolutional neural networks to reduce the dependency on the large amount of manually annotated empirical images. This was achieved by optimising the visual realism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Ruud Barth , Jochen Hemming , Eldert J. van Henten

Domain adaptation is of huge interest as labeling is an expensive and error-prone task, especially when labels are needed on pixel-level like in semantic segmentation. Therefore, one would like to be able to train neural networks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Annika Mütze , Matthias Rottmann , Hanno Gottschalk

Point cloud scene flow estimation is of practical importance for dynamic scene navigation in autonomous driving. Since scene flow labels are hard to obtain, current methods train their models on synthetic data and transfer them to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhao Jin , Yinjie Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Haifeng Li , Munawar Hayat

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

The recent advances in deep neural networks have convincingly demonstrated high capability in learning vision models on large datasets. Nevertheless, collecting expert labeled datasets especially with pixel-level annotations is an extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Dong Liu , Tao Mei

While Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved human-like performance on many visual and textual reasoning tasks, their proficiency in fine-grained spatial understanding, such as route tracing on maps remains limited. Unlike humans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Artemis Panagopoulou , Aveek Purohit , Achin Kulshrestha , Soroosh Yazdani , Mohit Goyal

Given the dependency of current CNN architectures on a large training set, the possibility of using synthetic data is alluring as it allows generating a virtually infinite amount of labeled training data. However, producing such data is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Pavel Rojtberg , Thomas Pöllabauer , Arjan Kuijper