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arxiv: 1708.04896 · v2 · pith:VHQMGZAUnew · submitted 2017-08-16 · 💻 cs.CV

Random Erasing Data Augmentation

Zhun Zhong , Liang Zheng , Guoliang Kang , Shaozi Li , Yi Yang This is my paper
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In this paper, we introduce Random Erasing, a new data augmentation method for training the convolutional neural network (CNN). In training, Random Erasing randomly selects a rectangle region in an image and erases its pixels with random values. In this process, training images with various levels of occlusion are generated, which reduces the risk of over-fitting and makes the model robust to occlusion. Random Erasing is parameter learning free, easy to implement, and can be integrated with most of the CNN-based recognition models. Albeit simple, Random Erasing is complementary to commonly used data augmentation techniques such as random cropping and flipping, and yields consistent improvement over strong baselines in image classification, object detection and person re-identification. Code is available at: https://github.com/zhunzhong07/Random-Erasing.

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