The Ground Truth Newsletter July 2022
Since it’s hot out, we’re giving you our hot takes on what’s happening in the field of CV and synthetic data. Scroll down to read more…
From the Industry
CVPR 2022 delivered as promised. There were a plethora of papers, a ton of technology, an excellent expo, super speakers and of course, plenty of participants. With so much going on, it might be hard to see all the details and nuances of what was presented in New Orleans.?We’ve gathered 4 takeaways?to make it easy to get the most out of what CVPR 2022 offered.?
?Read 4 Technology Takeaways from CVPR 2022?here.
From Academia
Paper Recommendation: SynFace: Face Recognition with Synthetic Data
Synthetically generated datasets can be leveraged for significant reduction of the amount of real-world images required for training deep face recognition models. Generating synthetic facial images of new identities and diversifying attributes (new poses/hairstyles, different illumination conditions, wearing glasses, etc.) of the existing individuals are capable of alleviating the above-mentioned issues.
?Now the question is:?are synthetic datasets of facial images “good enough” for training of face recognition models??Namely, what is the optimal way to incorporate synthetically generated images into the training of face recognition models? In order to address these questions, the authors propose SynFace, an approach that combines real and synthetic facial data to improve the performance of face recognition models.
?Read the paper review?here.
?From the Team
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