Title
Learning from Synthetic Data Using a Stacked Multichannel Autoencoder
Abstract
Learning from synthetic data has many important and practical applications, An example of application is photo-sketch recognition. Using synthetic data is challenging due to the differences in feature distributions between synthetic and real data, a phenomenon we term synthetic gap. In this paper, we investigate and formalize a general framework -- Stacked Multichannel Autoencoder (SMCAE) that enables bridging the synthetic gap and learning from synthetic data more efficiently. In particular, we show that our SMCAE can not only transform and use synthetic data on the challenging face-sketch recognition task, but that it can also help simulate real images, which can be used for training classifiers for recognition. Preliminary experiments validate the effectiveness of the framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICMLA.2015.199
2015 IEEE 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Autoencoder,data synthesis,transfer learning
Journal
abs/1509.05463
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.43
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Zhang14028.57
Yanwei Fu254351.93
Shanshan Jiang312920.15
Leonid Sigal4585.51
Gady Agam539143.99