[mendeza]

I think an exciting area that can innovate the lack of data is domain randomization, and synthetic data generation.

Slides from Josh Tobin is a great introduction: http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/randomization_and_the_reali...

http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/BeyondDomainRandomization_T...

And a really cool project implementing synthetic generation of text in images: https://github.com/ankush-me/SynthText

[tasogare]

How it that useful for subsequent learning? The output is random words that doesn't even forms phrases or sentences and has no relation with the image.