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Data augmentation is an effective technique for improving the accuracy of modern image classifiers. However, current data augmentation implementations are manually designed. In this paper, we describe a simple procedure called AutoAugment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Dandelion Mane , Vijay Vasudevan , Quoc V. Le

Deep learning models can perform well when evaluated on images from the same distribution as the training set. However, applying small perturbations in the forms of noise, artifacts, occlusions, blurring, etc. to a model's input image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zahra Golpayegani , Patrick St-Amant , Nizar Bouguila

This paper investigates the impact of various data augmentation techniques on the performance of object detection models. Specifically, we explore classical augmentation methods, image compositing, and advanced generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ang Jia Ning Shermaine , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Flaw detection in non-destructive testing, especially in complex signals like ultrasonic data, has thus far relied heavily on the expertise and judgement of trained human inspectors. While automated systems have been used for a long time,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Iikka Virkkunen , Tuomas Koskinen , Oskari Jessen-Juhler , Jari Rinta-Aho

Training segmentation networks requires large annotated datasets, which in medical imaging can be hard to obtain. Despite this fact, data augmentation has in our opinion not been fully explored for brain tumor segmentation. In this project…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Marco Domenico Cirillo , David Abramian , Anders Eklund

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

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in a wide variety of medical imaging tasks. However, these models often fail on data not used during training, such as data originating from a different medical centre. How to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Joona Pohjonen , Carolin Stürenberg , Atte Föhr , Reija Randen-Brady , Lassi Luomala , Jouni Lohi , Esa Pitkänen , Antti Rannikko , Tuomas Mirtti

Deep learning performs remarkably well on many time series analysis tasks recently. The superior performance of deep neural networks relies heavily on a large number of training data to avoid overfitting. However, the labeled data of many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun , Fan Yang , Xiaomin Song , Jingkun Gao , Xue Wang , Huan Xu

Data augmentation using generative models has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing performance in computer vision tasks. However, most existing augmentation approaches primarily focus on optimizing intrinsic data attributes -- such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jiyu Guo , Shuo Yang , Yiming Huang , Yancheng Long , Xiaobo Xia , Xiu Su , Bo Zhao , Zeke Xie , Liqiang Nie

One of the growing trends in machine learning is the use of data generation techniques, since the performance of machine learning models is dependent on the quantity of the training dataset. However, in many real-world applications,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yasaman Haghbin , Hadi Moradi , Reshad Hosseini

The generation of artificial data based on existing observations, known as data augmentation, is a technique used in machine learning to improve model accuracy, generalisation, and to control overfitting. Augmentor is a software package,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Marcus D. Bloice , Christof Stocker , Andreas Holzinger

Data augmentation is an essential technique in natural language processing (NLP) for enriching training datasets by generating diverse samples. This process is crucial for improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Jinghan Zhang , Xinhao Zhang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation strategy named Cut-Thumbnail, that aims to improve the shape bias of the network. We reduce an image to a certain size and replace the random region of the original image with the reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tianshu Xie , Xuan Cheng , Minghui Liu , Jiali Deng , Xiaomin Wang , Ming Liu

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

Applying machine learning technologies, especially deep learning, into medical image segmentation is being widely studied because of its state-of-the-art performance and results. It can be a key step to provide a reliable basis for clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ziyang Wang

The success of neural networks on medical image segmentation tasks typically relies on large labeled datasets for model training. However, acquiring and manually labeling a large medical image set is resource-intensive, expensive, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Chen Chen , Chen Qin , Cheng Ouyang , Zeju Li , Shuo Wang , Huaqi Qiu , Liang Chen , Giacomo Tarroni , Wenjia Bai , Daniel Rueckert

Conventional data augmentation realized by performing simple pre-processing operations (\eg, rotation, crop, \etc) has been validated for its advantage in enhancing the performance for medical image segmentation. However, the data generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Tiexin Qin , Ziyuan Wang , Kelei He , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Dinggang Shen

Recently, a number of image-mixing-based augmentation techniques have been introduced to improve the generalization of deep neural networks. In these techniques, two or more randomly selected natural images are mixed together to generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Khawar Islam , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Karthik Nandakumar

Robust cardiac image segmentation is still an open challenge due to the inability of the existing methods to achieve satisfactory performance on unseen data of different domains. Since the acquisition and annotation of medical data are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Agisilaos Chartsias , Alison O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Despite remarkable progress on visual recognition tasks, deep neural-nets still struggle to generalize well when training data is scarce or highly imbalanced, rendering them extremely vulnerable to real-world examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shiran Zada , Itay Benou , Michal Irani