Synthetic Image Models for Smart Agriculture

Synthetic image models are improving rapidly, particularly in text-to-image generation. These advancements offer potential applications for various enterprise problems. In this post, we discuss using synthetic image models to improve a computer vision application by addressing data drift and enhancing model accuracy under unexpected conditions. We demonstrate this through an example of autonomous farming, where a neural network is trained to distinguish crops from weeds. The classifier's performance drops when faced with changing weather patterns like snow. By efficiently generating synthetic images of plants in snowy conditions, the training dataset is augmented, and the computer vision classification accuracy improves. Synthetic data can reduce costs and speed up iteration time while maintaining high utility for downstream machine learning applications.