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Naturalistic scenes are of key interest for visual perception, but controlling their perceptual and semantic properties is challenging. Previous work on naturalistic scenes has frequently focused on collections of discrete images with…

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The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang

Diffusion models have recently achieved astonishing performance in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Given their huge success, it is still unclear whether synthetic images are applicable for knowledge distillation when real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zheng Li , Yuxuan Li , Penghai Zhao , Renjie Song , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

Data augmentation is crucial in training deep models, preventing them from overfitting to limited data. Recent advances in generative AI, e.g., diffusion models, have enabled more sophisticated augmentation techniques that produce data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Anuj Singh , K L Navaneet , Hamed Pirsiavash , Hadi Jamali-Rad

In the realm of dermatological diagnoses, where the analysis of dermatoscopic and microscopic skin lesion images is pivotal for the accurate and early detection of various medical conditions, the costs associated with creating diverse and…

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of synthetic images that are increasingly indistinguishable from authentic content, posing significant challenges for digital media integrity. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jaime Álvarez Urueña , David Camacho , Javier Huertas Tato

The role of AI-generated synthetic data has recently been expanded to support realistic Monte Carlo simulations. However, guidance is limited on generating data with multilevel structures and designing simulations based on such data. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-08 Youmi Suk , Chenguang Pan , Weixuan Xiao

As deep learning models grow in complexity and the volume of training data increases, reducing storage and computational costs becomes increasingly important. Dataset distillation addresses this challenge by synthesizing a compact set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhe Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Katharina Breininger , Peter Schüffler , Bernhard Kainz

This paper introduces MixDiff, a new self-supervised learning (SSL) pre-training framework that combines real and synthetic images. Unlike traditional SSL methods that predominantly use real images, MixDiff uses a variant of Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Nidhin Harilal , Claire Monteleoni , Maziar Raissi

Accurate embryo morphology assessment is essential in assisted reproductive technology for selecting the most viable embryo. Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance this process. However, the limited availability of embryo data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Oriana Presacan , Alexandru Dorobantiu , Vajira Thambawita , Michael A. Riegler , Mette H. Stensen , Mario Iliceto , Alexandru C. Aldea , Akriti Sharma

Recent text-to-image generation models have shown promising results in generating high-fidelity photo-realistic images. Though the results are astonishing to human eyes, how applicable these generated images are for recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Ruifei He , Shuyang Sun , Xin Yu , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

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

We investigate the potential of learning visual representations using synthetic images generated by text-to-image models. This is a natural question in the light of the excellent performance of such models in generating high-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yonglong Tian , Lijie Fan , Phillip Isola , Huiwen Chang , Dilip Krishnan

Accurate single cell detection in brightfield microscopy is crucial for biological research, yet data scarcity and annotation bottlenecks limit the progress of deep learning methods. We investigate the use of unconditional models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mario de Jesus da Graca , Jörg Dahlkemper , Peer Stelldinger

Medical imaging has revolutionized disease diagnosis, yet the potential is hampered by limited access to diverse and privacy-conscious datasets. Open-source medical datasets, while valuable, suffer from data quality and clinical information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Gauri Bhardwaj , Yuvaraj Govindarajulu , Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan , Pavan Kulkarni , Manojkumar Parmar

The success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) at many clinics relies on the accurate morphological assessment of day 5 blastocysts, a process that is often subjective and inconsistent. While artificial intelligence can help standardize this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pavan Narahari , Suraj Rajendran , Lorena Bori , Jonas E. Malmsten , Qiansheng Zhan , Zev Rosenwaks , Nikica Zaninovic , Iman Hajirasouliha

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

We introduce StableMaterials, a novel approach for generating photorealistic physical-based rendering (PBR) materials that integrate semi-supervised learning with Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). Our method employs adversarial training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Giuseppe Vecchio

The rapid advancement of generative AI has enabled the creation of highly photorealistic visual content, offering practical substitutes for real images and videos in scenarios where acquiring real data is difficult or expensive. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Aniruddha Mukherjee , Spriha Dubey , Somdyuti Paul