Instance-Level Safety-Aware Fidelity of Synthetic Data and Its Calibration

Modeling and calibrating the fidelity of synthetic data is paramount in shaping the future of safe and reliable self-driving technology by offering a cost-effective and scalable alternative to real-world data collection. We focus on its role in safety-critical applications, introducing four types of instance-level fidelity that go beyond mere visual input characteristics. The aim is to align synthetic data with real-world safety issues. We suggest an optimization method to refine the synthetic data generator, reducing fidelity gaps identified by the DNN-based component. Our findings show this tuning enhances the correlation between safety-critical errors in synthetic and real images.