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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

Data augmentation is a critical component of training deep learning models. Although data augmentation has been shown to significantly improve image classification, its potential has not been thoroughly investigated for object detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Barret Zoph , Ekin D. Cubuk , Golnaz Ghiasi , Tsung-Yi Lin , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Recent work has shown that deep vision models tend to be overly dependent on low-level or "texture" features, leading to poor generalization. Various data augmentation strategies have been proposed to overcome this so-called texture bias in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Aditay Tripathi , Rishubh Singh , Anirban Chakraborty , Pradeep Shenoy

Recent studies revealed that convolutional neural networks do not generalize well to small image transformations, e.g. rotations by a few degrees or translations of a few pixels. To improve the robustness to such transformations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Adrian Sandru , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

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

We study how effective data augmentation is at capturing the inductive bias of carefully designed network architectures for spatial translation invariance. We evaluate various image classification architectures (antialiased, convolutional,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Suriya Gunasekar

Although data augmentation is a powerful technique for improving the performance of image classification tasks, it is difficult to identify the best augmentation policy. The optimal augmentation policy, which is the latent variable, cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Koichi Kuriyama

Data augmentation (DA) is fundamental against overfitting in large convolutional neural networks, especially with a limited training dataset. In images, DA is usually based on heuristic transformations, like geometric or color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Saypraseuth Mounsaveng , David Vazquez , Ismail Ben Ayed , Marco Pedersoli

Deep learning models have a large number of freeparameters that need to be calculated by effective trainingof the models on a great deal of training data to improvetheir generalization performance. However, data obtaining andlabeling is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Benlin Hu , Cheng Lei , Dong Wang , Shu Zhang , Zhenyu Chen

Data augmentation is widely known as a simple yet surprisingly effective technique for regularizing deep networks. Conventional data augmentation schemes, e.g., flipping, translation or rotation, are low-level, data-independent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yulin Wang , Gao Huang , Shiji Song , Xuran Pan , Yitong Xia , Cheng Wu

Deep image matting methods have achieved increasingly better results on benchmarks (e.g., Composition-1k/alphamatting.com). However, the robustness, including robustness to trimaps and generalization to images from different domains, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yutong Dai , Brian Price , He Zhang , Chunhua Shen

In this paper, we present augmentation inside the network, a method that simulates data augmentation techniques for computer vision problems on intermediate features of a convolutional neural network. We perform these transformations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Maciej Sypetkowski , Jakub Jasiulewicz , Zbigniew Wojna

Self-supervised representation learning is heavily dependent on data augmentations to specify the invariances encoded in representations. Previous work has shown that applying diverse data augmentations is crucial to downstream performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Philip Andrew Mansfield , Arash Afkanpour , Warren Richard Morningstar , Karan Singhal

The rapid progress in machine learning methods has been empowered by i) huge datasets that have been collected and annotated, ii) improved engineering (e.g. data pre-processing/normalization). The existing datasets typically include several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Grigorios G. Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Data augmentation is a widely used technique in many machine learning tasks, such as image classification, to virtually enlarge the training dataset size and avoid overfitting. Traditional data augmentation techniques for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Hiroshi Inoue

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) serve as the workhorse of deep learning, finding applications in various fields that rely on images. Given sufficient data, they exhibit the capacity to learn a wide range of concepts across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Saorj Kumar , Prince Asiamah , Oluwatoyin Jolaoso , Ugochukwu Esiowu

In this paper, we propose a novel implicit semantic data augmentation (ISDA) approach to complement traditional augmentation techniques like flipping, translation or rotation. Our work is motivated by the intriguing property that deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yulin Wang , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Hong Zhang , Cheng Wu , Gao Huang

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

Fine-tuning is widely applied in image classification tasks as a transfer learning approach. It re-uses the knowledge from a source task to learn and obtain a high performance in target tasks. Fine-tuning is able to alleviate the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Xuyang Shen , Jo Plested , Sabrina Caldwell , Yiran Zhong , Tom Gedeon

Data augmentation is a widely used technique and an essential ingredient in the recent advance in self-supervised representation learning. By preserving the similarity between augmented data, the resulting data representation can improve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-16 Shulei Wang