Generating synthetic data for snow detection proves essential due to the challenges in collecting real-world data affected by weather conditions.
Utilizing inverse diffusion, the author aimed to create high-quality synthetic snow images for model training, overcoming the limitations of sparse real data.
An inverse diffusion model was trained on real snow images to produce synthetic variations of snow-covered sidewalks by structurally refining them.
This technique involved 800 epochs of training at a 256-pixel resolution with 50 embeddings to capture intricate snow details.
While the synthetic images showed improvement with bicubic interpolation, replicating natural snow complexities remained a challenge.
Synthetic data benefits snow detection by enabling scalability, controlled conditions for training, and augmentation of small datasets for AI model robustness.
Improving synthetic data generation in snow detection involves exploring advanced simulation models, integrating additional data modalities, and expanding dataset variability.
Synthetic data complements but does not fully substitute real-world data, presenting opportunities for enhancing AI models with further advancements in generation realism.
The author's research journey underscores the potential and limitations of synthetic data in AI training for snow detection, emphasizing the need for a balance with real data.
Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of synthetic data is crucial for informed decision-making in AI and computer vision applications.