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Bowdoin College

2019

Machine Learning

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Teaching Computers To Teach Themselves: Synthesizing Training Data Based On Human-Perceived Elements, James Little May 2019

Teaching Computers To Teach Themselves: Synthesizing Training Data Based On Human-Perceived Elements, James Little

Honors Projects

Isolation-Based Scene Generation (IBSG) is a process for creating synthetic datasets made to train machine learning detectors and classifiers. In this project, we formalize the IBSG process and describe the scenarios—object detection and object classification given audio or image input—in which it can be useful. We then look at the Stanford Street View House Number (SVHN) dataset and build several different IBSG training datasets based on existing SVHN data. We try to improve the compositing algorithm used to build the IBSG dataset so that models trained with synthetic data perform as well as models trained with the original SVHN training …