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Syn2Real: A New Benchmark forSynthetic-to-Real Visual Domain Adaptation

26 Jun 2018arXiv:1806.09755archive 2025-07-28

Xingchao Peng, Ben Usman, Kuniaki Saito, Neela Kaushik, Judy Hoffman, Kate Saenko

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 real-world data without any additional supervision. Unfortunately, current benchmarks for this problem are limited in size and task diversity. In this paper, we present a new large-scale benchmark called Syn2Real, which consists of a synthetic domain rendered from 3D object models and two real-image domains containing the same object categories. We define three related tasks on this benchmark: closed-set object classification, open-set object classification, and object detection. Our evaluation of multiple state-of-the-art methods reveals a large gap in adaptation performance between the easier closed-set classification task and the more difficult open-set and detection tasks. We conclude that developing adaptation methods that work well across all three tasks presents a significant future challenge for syn2real domain transfer.

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ClassificationDiversityDomain AdaptationGeneral ClassificationObjectObject DetectionObject Recognitionobject-detection

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