Multi-Modal Biometric and Diagnostic Analysis Using Synthetic Data Priming and Adaptive Depth Refinement

10 May 2026, Version 1
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Abstract

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for augmented human perception through multi-modal biometric and diagnostic analysis. The proposed system addresses critical challenges in real-world computer vision applications, particularly data scarcity, sensor noise, and privacy constraints. Our methodology integrates three synergistic modules: a synthetic digital twin generator for data augmentation, an adaptive depth refinement algorithm for sensor fusion, and a multi-modal transfer learning architecture. The synthetic generation module employs physically-based rendering techniques to create photorealistic human models with mathematically precise ground truth annotations. The depth refinement algorithm utilizes random walk processes and variational optimization to denoise and complete depth maps from low-cost sensors. The transfer learning framework enables knowledge distillation across spectral domains, allowing models trained on synthetic RGB data to effectively interpret thermal signatures. Experimental validation across dermatological screening and biometric classification tasks demonstrates that our framework achieves classification accuracies exceeding 94.3% with less than 500 real training samples. The depth refinement algorithm reduces mean absolute error in depth estimation by 67.2% compared to raw sensor data. Our thermal-to-RGB transfer approach enables gender classification from thermal images with 91.7% accuracy in complete darkness, representing a 28.4% improvement over baseline methods. The mathematical foundations, algorithmic implementations, and extensive experimental results establish this framework as a robust solution for high-stakes human analysis applications where data availability and sensor limitations pose significant constraints.

Keywords

Augmented perception
synthetic data
depth refinement
multi-modal fusion
biometric analysis
medical diagnostics
transfer learning
sensor fusion

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