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Data augmentation is a series of techniques that generate high-quality artificial data by manipulating existing data samples. By leveraging data augmentation techniques, AI models can achieve significantly improved applicability in tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zaitian Wang , Pengfei Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu , Chang-Tien Lu , Charu C. Aggarwal , Jian Pei , Yuanchun Zhou

Data augmentation is a popular pre-processing trick to improve generalization accuracy. It is believed that by processing augmented inputs in tandem with the original ones, the model learns a more robust set of features which are shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Vihari Piratla , Shiv Shankar

Data augmentation (DA) is indispensable in modern machine learning and deep neural networks. The basic idea of DA is to construct new training data to improve the model's generalization by adding slightly disturbed versions of existing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chengtai Cao , Fan Zhou , Yurou Dai , Jianping Wang , Kunpeng Zhang

Multimodal Person Reidentification is gaining popularity in the research community due to its effectiveness compared to counter-part unimodal frameworks. However, the bottleneck for multimodal deep learning is the need for a large volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Mulham Fawakherji , Eduard Vazquez , Pasquale Giampa , Binod Bhattarai

In this paper, we explore and compare multiple solutions to the problem of data augmentation in image classification. Previous work has demonstrated the effectiveness of data augmentation through simple techniques, such as cropping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Luis Perez , Jason Wang

Dynamic data selection aims to accelerate training with lossless performance. However, reducing training data inherently limits data diversity, potentially hindering generalization. While data augmentation is widely used to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Suorong Yang , Peng Ye , Furao Shen , Dongzhan Zhou

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 is a technique to improve the generalization ability of machine learning methods by increasing the size of the dataset. However, since every augmentation method is not equally effective for every dataset, you need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Daisuke Oba , Shinnosuke Matsuo , Brian Kenji Iwana

Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability in medical image analysis, it is frequently underutilized. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Adam Tupper , Christian Gagné

Data augmentation is a popular technique which helps improve generalization capabilities of deep neural networks. It plays a pivotal role in remote-sensing scenarios in which the amount of high-quality ground truth data is limited, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Jakub Nalepa , Michal Myller , Michal Kawulok

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

Patch-level data augmentation techniques such as Cutout and CutMix have demonstrated significant efficacy in enhancing the performance of vision tasks. However, a comprehensive theoretical understanding of these methods remains elusive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Junsoo Oh , Chulhee Yun

Contrary to most machine learning models, modern deep artificial neural networks typically include multiple components that contribute to regularization. Despite the fact that some (explicit) regularization techniques, such as weight decay…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Alex Hernández-García , Peter König

Data augmentation is a powerful technique to improve performance in applications such as image and text classification tasks. Yet, there is little rigorous understanding of why and how various augmentations work. In this work, we consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sen Wu , Hongyang R. Zhang , Gregory Valiant , Christopher Ré

Data augmentation is an essential technique for improving recognition accuracy in object recognition using deep learning. Methods that generate mixed data from multiple data sets, such as mixup, can acquire new diversity that is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shungo Fujii , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are capable of learning robust representation with different regularization methods and activations as convolutional layers are spatially correlated. Based on this property, a large variety of regional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Devesh Walawalkar , Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Marios Savvides

We propose the first unified theoretical analysis of mixed sample data augmentation (MSDA), such as Mixup and CutMix. Our theoretical results show that regardless of the choice of the mixing strategy, MSDA behaves as a pixel-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chanwoo Park , Sangdoo Yun , Sanghyuk Chun

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bohan Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Regional dropout strategies have been proposed to enhance the performance of convolutional neural network classifiers. They have proved to be effective for guiding the model to attend on less discriminative parts of objects (e.g. leg as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-11 Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han , Seong Joon Oh , Sanghyuk Chun , Junsuk Choe , Youngjoon Yoo

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