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Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite these benefits, the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianhao Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shuyang Sun , Philip Torr , Bo Zhao

Scaling data volume and diversity is critical for generalizing embodied intelligence. While synthetic data generation offers a scalable alternative to expensive physical data acquisition, transferring robotic manipulation policies from…

This paper demonstrates how simulated images can be useful for object detection tasks in the agricultural sector, where labeled data can be scarce and costly to collect. We consider training on mixed datasets with real and simulated data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Sunny Goondram , Akansel Cosgun , Dana Kulic

LiDAR object detection algorithms based on neural networks for autonomous driving require large amounts of data for training, validation, and testing. As real-world data collection and labeling are time-consuming and expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sebastian Huch , Luca Scalerandi , Esteban Rivera , Markus Lienkamp

Vision-based object detectors are a crucial basis for robotics applications as they provide valuable information about object localisation in the environment. These need to ensure high reliability in different lighting conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ritvik Singh , Jingzhou Liu , Karl Van Wyk , Yu-Wei Chao , Jean-Francois Lafleche , Florian Shkurti , Nathan Ratliff , Ankur Handa

Despite the notable accomplishments of deep object detection models, a major challenge that persists is the requirement for extensive amounts of training data. The process of procuring such real-world data is a laborious undertaking, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Roy Voetman , Maya Aghaei , Klaas Dijkstra

Field detection in team sports is an essential task in sports video analysis. However, collecting large-scale and diverse real-world datasets for training detection models is often cost and time-consuming. Synthetic datasets, which allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 HaoBin Qin , Jiale Fang , Keisuke Fujii

This paper addresses the synthetic-to-real domain gap in object detection, focusing on training a YOLOv11 model to detect a specific object (a soup can) using only synthetic data and domain randomization strategies. The methodology involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Luisa Torquato Niño , Hamza A. A. Gardi

We are interested in solving the problem of imitation learning with a limited amount of real-world expert data. Existing offline imitation methods often struggle with poor data coverage and severe performance degradation. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yilin Wang , Shangzhe Li , Haoyi Niu , Zhiao Huang , Weitong Zhang , Hao Su

Limited real-world data severely impacts model performance in many computer vision domains, particularly for samples that are underrepresented in training. Synthetically generated images are a promising solution, but 1) it remains unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nitish Mital , Simon Malzard , Richard Walters , Celso M. De Melo , Raghuveer Rao , Victoria Nockles

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

Deep Learning has seen an unprecedented increase in vision applications since the publication of large-scale object recognition datasets and introduction of scalable compute hardware. State-of-the-art methods for most vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nikita Jaipuria , Xianling Zhang , Rohan Bhasin , Mayar Arafa , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Sagar Manglani , Vidya N. Murali

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

Synthetic data is being used lately for training deep neural networks in computer vision applications such as object detection, object segmentation and 6D object pose estimation. Domain randomization hereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Parth Rawal , Mrunal Sompura , Wolfgang Hintze

Robotic learning in simulation environments provides a faster, more scalable, and safer training methodology than learning directly with physical robots. Also, synthesizing images in a simulation environment for collecting large-scale image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Tadanobu Inoue , Subhajit Chaudhury , Giovanni De Magistris , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Performance on benchmark datasets has drastically improved with advances in deep learning. Still, cross-dataset generalization performance remains relatively low due to the domain shift that can occur between two different datasets. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

This paper is about effectively utilizing synthetic data for training deep neural networks for industrial parts classification, in particular, by taking into account the domain gap against real-world images. To this end, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xiaomeng Zhu , Talha Bilal , Pär Mårtensson , Lars Hanson , Mårten Björkman , Atsuto Maki

Capturing and labeling camera images in the real world is an expensive task, whereas synthesizing labeled images in a simulation environment is easy for collecting large-scale image data. However, learning from only synthetic images may not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Tadanobu Inoue , Subhajit Chaudhury , Giovanni De Magistris , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

The use of synthetic data in machine learning saves a significant amount of time when implementing an effective object detector. However, there is limited research in this domain. This study aims to improve upon previously applied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Henry Gann , Josiah Bull , Trevor Gee , Mahla Nejati

Developing robust drone detection systems is often constrained by the limited availability of large-scale annotated training data and the high costs associated with real-world data collection. However, leveraging synthetic data generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Kai Franke , Tobias Koch