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Data augmentation is a cornerstone of the machine learning pipeline, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain unclear. Is it merely a way to artificially augment the data set size? Or is it about encouraging the model to satisfy certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ruoqi Shen , Sébastien Bubeck , Suriya Gunasekar

Data augmentation techniques, such as simple image transformations and combinations, are highly effective at improving the generalization of computer vision models, especially when training data is limited. However, such techniques are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Wenxuan Bao , Francesco Pittaluga , Vijay Kumar B G , Vincent Bindschaedler

Data augmentation is a widely used training trick in deep learning to improve the network generalization ability. Despite many encouraging results, several recent studies did point out limitations of the conventional data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yi Xu , Asaf Noy , Ming Lin , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Table Structure Recognition is an essential part of end-to-end tabular data extraction in document images. The recent success of deep learning model architectures in computer vision remains to be non-reflective in table structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Umar Khan , Sohaib Zahid , Muhammad Asad Ali , Adnan ul Hassan , Faisal Shafait

Data augmentation has been widely employed to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. Most existing methods apply fixed or random transformations. However, we find that sample difficulty evolves along with the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Suorong Yang , Jie Zong , Lihang Wang , Ziheng Qin , Hai Gan , Pengfei Zhou , Kai Wang , Yang You , Furao Shen

We introduce style augmentation, a new form of data augmentation based on random style transfer, for improving the robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNN) over both classification and regression based tasks. During training, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Philip T. Jackson , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Toby Breckon , Boguslaw Obara

Weak supervision combines the advantages of training on real data with the ability to exploit signal properties. However, training a neural network using weak supervision often requires an excessive amount of signal data, which severely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-23 Zong-En Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Feng-Yang Hsieh

Deep networks for visual recognition are known to leverage "easy to recognise" portions of objects such as faces and distinctive texture patterns. The lack of a holistic understanding of objects may increase fragility and overfitting. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Ruth Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to remove the influence of specific data from a trained model while preserving its performance on the remaining data. Although a few works suggest connections between memorisation and augmentation, the role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Andreza M. C. Falcao , Filipe R. Cordeiro

In this paper, we introduce a novel data augmentation technique that combines the advantages of style augmentation and random erasing by selectively replacing image subregions with style-transferred patches. Our approach first applies a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qikai Yang , Cheng Ji , Huaiying Luo , Panfeng Li , Zhicheng Ding

Data augmentation, a cornerstone technique in deep learning, is crucial in enhancing model performance, especially with scarce labeled data. While traditional techniques are effective, their reliance on hand-crafted methods limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mucong Ding , Bang An , Yuancheng Xu , Anirudh Satheesh , Furong Huang

Contrastive learning enables learning useful audio and speech representations without ground-truth labels by maximizing the similarity between latent representations of similar signal segments. In this framework various data augmentation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Salah Zaiem , Titouan Parcollet , Slim Essid

Data-Augmentation (DA) is known to improve performance across tasks and datasets. We propose a method to theoretically analyze the effect of DA and study questions such as: how many augmented samples are needed to correctly estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Randall Balestriero , Ishan Misra , Yann LeCun

Data augmentation is an effective way to improve the performance of deep networks. Unfortunately, current methods are mostly developed for high-level vision tasks (e.g., classification) and few are studied for low-level vision tasks (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Jaejun Yoo , Namhyuk Ahn , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Modeling and manufacturing of personalized cranial implants are important research areas that may decrease the waiting time for patients suffering from cranial damage. The modeling of personalized implants may be partially automated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Marek Wodzinski , Kamil Kwarciak , Mateusz Daniol , Daria Hemmerling

In many machine learning problems, large-scale datasets have become the de-facto standard to train state-of-the-art deep networks at the price of heavy computation load. In this paper, we focus on condensing large training sets into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable achievements in many fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and others. Adequate training data is the key to ensure the effectiveness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Chunxu Zhang , Jiaxu Cui , Bo Yang

Data augmentation has been proven to be an effective technique for developing machine learning models that are robust to known classes of distributional shifts (e.g., rotations of images), and alignment regularization is a technique often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Haohan Wang , Zeyi Huang , Xindi Wu , Eric P. Xing

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on both heuristics-driven and data-driven augmentations as a means to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Manipulating data, such as weighting data examples or augmenting with new instances, has been increasingly used to improve model training. Previous work has studied various rule- or learning-based approaches designed for specific types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhiting Hu , Bowen Tan , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Tom Mitchell , Eric P. Xing