AWS described a synthetic data augmentation pipeline for detecting people near heavy machinery
AWS described a pipeline on Amazon SageMaker AI that uses the diffusion model Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 to insert synthetic figures into real images of machinery and automatically labels them using Amazon Rekognition. According to AWS, this improved the detection of people near machinery (mAP50) by up to 160 % without manual annotation.
According to AWS, the pipeline enables industrial companies using autonomous machinery (agriculture, construction, mining, manufacturing) to fill gaps in training data for detecting dangerous situations without risky photography in the field and without manual annotation, reducing both costs and safety risks during data collection.