I think an exciting area that can innovate the lack of data is domain randomization, and synthetic data generation. Slides from Josh Tobin is a great introduct

I think an exciting area that can innovate the lack of data is domain randomization, and synthetic data generation. Slides from Josh Tobin is a great introduction: http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/randomization_and_the_reality_gap.pdf http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/randomization_and_the_reali... http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/BeyondDomainRandomization_Tobin_RSS19.pdf http://josh-tobin.com/assets/pdf/BeyondDomainRandomization_T... And a really cool project implementing synthetic generation of text in images: https://github.com/ankush-me/SynthText https://github.com/ankush-me/SynthText