The impact of the video game industry
In this section, we will understand why video games present an ideal medium for synthetic data generation.
Video games are interactive electronic games used primarily for entertainment. The player usually interacts with game elements to achieve an objective. The volume, quality, and quantity of games released each year have grown exponentially in recent years. Video games are now utilized in education, training, rehabilitation, personal development, and just recently in machine learning (ML) research. Specifically, they are presented as a rich and excellent synthetic data resource for training and testing ML models.
Synthetic data generation approaches such as simulators and GANs are promising and present a clever solution for generating large-scale and automatically annotated datasets; refer to Chapters 6 and 7. However, they still have a few limitations due to the complexity, time, and effort required to set up the data generation system...
