Synthetic Data for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Tools, Techniques, and Applications III

Our conference seeks to grow the Synthetic Data community and foster connections across use cases, methods, and disciplines. By sharing our work in one place, we find common learning opportunities and work to advance the state of the art across the many touchpoints that synthetic data can impact across commercial and defense applications. We aim to facilitate the development of tools and processes for generating Synthetic Data and the dissemination of meaningful, evidence-based guidance for its use.

Conference topics include:

• RADAR/SAR
• search, detection and classification
• satellite-based reconnaissance
• hardware/software/human in the loop
• command and control environments
• biomedical applications
• autonomous navigation, driving, and piloting
• pose and gesture recognition
• multi-modal and non-image AI/ML
• data engineering and curation
• domain adaptation
• integrated machine learning and synthesis pipelines
• data quality metrics and visualization
• virtual asset creation and inverse graphics
• synthetic data generation tools.

Panel session
Title: Deception and Trust in the Age of Synthetic Data

Description: A panel of academic and government experts will discuss deception and trust in AI and Machine Learning as synthetic data becomes more and more pervasive. Methods to detect, mitigate, and reject fake information are crucial to the modern age, while trust and reliability are paramount as AI/ML software and tools are more accessible than ever before. The panel will touch on the use of synthetic data to guard against deception and counter-AI attempts, improve transparency and trust in model outputs, and also what role synthetic data plays in disinformation and data poisoning attempts. What can the community do to protect against unethical usage, and where does the responsibility fall?

Facilitator: Dr. Kimberly Manser (C5ISR Center RTI)

Joint sessions
This conference will hold joint sessions:

1. Partner Conference: RADAR Sensor Technology
   Joint Session Title: Synthetic Data for RADAR Sensor AI/ML
   Please submit papers that touch on synthetic data generation for RADAR-based AiTR, Computer Vision, or other AI/ML applications, including data simulation, virtual assets, and tools.
2. Partner Conference: Algorithms, Technologies, and Applications of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging
   Joint Session Title: Synthetic Data for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging
   Please submit papers that touch on synthetic data generation for multispectral or hyperspectral imagery AI/ML applications, including virtual assets and components, simulation tools, and use case evaluation.
3. Partner Conference: Infrared Technologies and Applications and Automatic Target Recognition
   Joint Session Title: Synthetic Data for Infrared Automatic Target Recognition
   Please submit papers that touch on synthetic infrared (IR) image simulation or generation for AI and deep learning, ATR-based applications. This includes virtual assets, tools, and use case evaluation of synthetic data for IR applications and A(i)TR.