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Data augmentation is a key element for training accurate models by reducing overfitting and improving generalization. For image classification, the most popular data augmentation techniques range from simple photometric and geometrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Avery Ma , Nikita Dvornik , Ran Zhang , Leila Pishdad , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Afsaneh Fazly

Self-supervised learning holds promise in leveraging large numbers of unlabeled data. However, its success heavily relies on the highly-curated dataset, e.g., ImageNet, which still needs human cleaning. Directly learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Meilin Chen , Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Haiyang Yang , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Donglian Qi , Wanli Ouyang

Mixup style data augmentation algorithms have been widely adopted in various tasks as implicit network regularization on representation learning to improve model generalization, which can be achieved by a linear interpolation of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Lihua Guo , Yaowei Wang , Kui Jia

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

We introduce a saliency-based distortion layer for convolutional neural networks that helps to improve the spatial sampling of input data for a given task. Our differentiable layer can be added as a preprocessing block to existing task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Adrià Recasens , Petr Kellnhofer , Simon Stent , Wojciech Matusik , Antonio Torralba

Data augmentation has become a standard component of vision pre-trained models to capture the invariance between augmented views. In practice, augmentation techniques that mask regions of a sample with zero/mean values or patches from other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

Data augmentation improves the generalization power of deep learning models by synthesizing more training samples. Sample-mixing is a popular data augmentation approach that creates additional data by combining existing samples. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tsz-Him Cheung , Dit-Yan Yeung

The state of the art in semantic segmentation is steadily increasing in performance, resulting in more precise and reliable segmentations in many different applications. However, progress is limited by the cost of generating labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Viktor Olsson , Wilhelm Tranheden , Juliano Pinto , Lennart Svensson

Cutmix-based data augmentation, which uses a cut-and-paste strategy, has shown remarkable generalization capabilities in deep learning. However, existing methods primarily consider global semantics with image-level constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fadi Dornaika , Danyang Sun

Due to the high cost of annotation or the rarity of some diseases, medical image segmentation is often limited by data scarcity and the resulting overfitting problem. Self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning can mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Danyang Sun , Fadi Dornaika , Nagore Barrena

Semantic segmentation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) is a crucial component in image analysis. Training a CNN to perform semantic segmentation requires a large amount of labeled data, where the production of such labeled data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

This paper proposes an unsupervised bottom-up saliency detection approach by aggregating complementary background template with refinement. Feature vectors are extracted from each superpixel to cover regional color, contrast and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Chenxing Xia , Hanling Zhang , Xiuju Gao

Salient object detection has been attracting a lot of interest, and recently various heuristic computational models have been designed. In this paper, we formulate saliency map computation as a regression problem. Our method, which is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Huaizu Jiang , Zejian Yuan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yihong Gong , Nanning Zheng , Jingdong Wang

The development of medical image segmentation using deep learning can significantly support doctors' diagnoses. Deep learning needs large amounts of data for training, which also requires data augmentation to extend diversity for preventing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Xiaoqing Liu , Kenji Ono , Ryoma Bise

Saliency maps that identify the most informative regions of an image for a classifier are valuable for model interpretability. A common approach to creating saliency maps involves generating input masks that mask out portions of an image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Krzysztof J. Geras

Recently, many methods to interpret and visualize deep neural network predictions have been proposed and significant progress has been made. However, a more class-discriminative and visually pleasing explanation is required. Thus, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Dasom Seo , Kanghan Oh , Il-Seok Oh

Data augmentation is widely used to enhance generalization in visual classification tasks. However, traditional methods struggle when source and target domains differ, as in domain adaptation, due to their inability to address domain gaps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Karthik Nandakumar , Naveed Akhtar

In order to reduce overfitting, neural networks are typically trained with data augmentation, the practice of artificially generating additional training data via label-preserving transformations of existing training examples. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Data augmentation has been widely applied as an effective methodology to improve generalization in particular when training deep neural networks. Recently, researchers proposed a few intensive data augmentation techniques, which indeed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhuoxun He , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Single-source domain generalization (SDG) in medical image segmentation is a challenging yet essential task as domain shifts are quite common among clinical image datasets. Previous attempts most conduct global-only/random augmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zixian Su , Kai Yao , Xi Yang , Qiufeng Wang , Jie Sun , Kaizhu Huang