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Data augmentation is an effective and universal technique for improving generalization performance of deep neural networks. It could enrich diversity of training samples that is essential in medical image segmentation tasks because 1) the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Ju Xu , Mengzhang Li , Zhanxing Zhu

Underlying data structures, such as symmetries or invariances to transformations, are often exploited to improve the solution of learning tasks. However, embedding these properties in models or learning algorithms can be challenging and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ignacio Hounie , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Data augmentation is a ubiquitous technique for increasing the size of labeled training sets by leveraging task-specific data transformations that preserve class labels. While it is often easy for domain experts to specify individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Alexander J. Ratner , Henry R. Ehrenberg , Zeshan Hussain , Jared Dunnmon , Christopher Ré

Data augmentation has proved extremely useful by increasing training data variance to alleviate overfitting and improve deep neural networks' generalization performance. In medical image analysis, a well-designed augmentation policy usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yunhe Gao , Zhiqiang Tang , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Data augmentation is a widely adopted technique utilized to improve the robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Employing a fixed data augmentation strategy for all training data is a common practice. However, it is important to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hongxuan Lu , Biao Li

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

Deep learning has performed remarkably well on many tasks recently. However, the superior performance of deep models relies heavily on the availability of a large number of training data, which limits the wide adaptation of deep models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Huiyuan Yang , Han Yu , Akane Sano

Automated data augmentation, which aims at engineering augmentation policy automatically, recently draw a growing research interest. Many previous auto-augmentation methods utilized a Density Matching strategy by evaluating policies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jianwei Zhang , Dong Li , Lituan Wang , Lei Zhang

In many classification problems, we want a classifier that is robust to a range of non-semantic transformations. For example, a human can identify a dog in a picture regardless of the orientation and pose in which it appears. There is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Scott Mahan , Tim Doster , Henry Kvinge

Scaling laws dictate that the performance of AI models is proportional to the amount of available data. Data augmentation is a promising solution to expanding the dataset size. Traditional approaches focused on augmentation using rotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Fazle Rahat , M Shifat Hossain , Md Rubel Ahmed , Sumit Kumar Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Data augmentation is one of the most important tools in training modern deep neural networks. Recently, great advances have been made in searching for optimal augmentation policies in the image classification domain. However, two key points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Zhiqiang Tang , Yunhe Gao , Leonid Karlinsky , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rogerio Feris , Dimitris Metaxas

Ensemble methods combine the predictions of multiple models to improve performance, but they require significantly higher computation costs at inference time. To avoid these costs, multiple neural networks can be combined into one by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Emy Gervais , Kilian Fatras , Yan Zhang , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Data augmentation is a critical component of deep learning pipelines, enhancing model generalization by increasing dataset diversity. Traditional augmentation strategies rely on manually designed transformations, stochastic sampling, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ant Duru , Alptekin Temizel

The successful training of neural networks typically involves careful and time consuming hyperparameter tuning. Population Based Training (PBT) has recently been proposed to automate this process. PBT trains a population of neural networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Valentin Dalibard , Max Jaderberg

The recent progress on automatically searching augmentation policies has boosted the performance substantially for various tasks. A key component of automatic augmentation search is the evaluation process for a particular augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Keyu Tian , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Luping Zhou , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Data Augmentation (DA) has become an essential tool to improve robustness and generalization of modern machine learning. However, when deciding on DA strategies it is critical to choose parameters carefully, and this can be a daunting task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Madi Matymov , Ba-Hien Tran , Michael Kampffmeyer , Markus Heinonen , Maurizio Filippone

In practice, data augmentation is assigned a predefined budget in terms of newly created samples per epoch. When using several types of data augmentation, the budget is usually uniformly distributed over the set of augmentations but one can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-08 Arnaud Deleruyelle , John Klein , Cristian Versari

Deep neural networks have emerged as very successful tools for image restoration and reconstruction tasks. These networks are often trained end-to-end to directly reconstruct an image from a noisy or corrupted measurement of that image. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Zalan Fabian , Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Data augmentations are useful in closing the sim-to-real domain gap when training on synthetic data. This is because they widen the training data distribution, thus encouraging the model to generalize better to other domains. Many image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bram Vanherle , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth

Automated augmentation is an emerging and effective technique to search for data augmentation policies to improve generalizability of deep neural network training. Most existing work focuses on constructing a unified policy applicable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Mingjun Zhao , Shan Lu , Zixuan Wang , Xiaoli Wang , Di Niu