[D] Image Augmentation in Practice: In-Distribution vs OOD Augmentations, TTA, and the Manifold View
I wrote a long practical guide on image augmentation based on ~10 years of training computer vision models and ~7 years working on Albumentations. In practice I’ve found that augmentation operates in two different regimes: In-distribution augmentation Simulate realistic variation that could occur during data collection (pose, lighting, blur, noise). Out-of-distribution augmentation Transforms that are intentionally unrealistic but act as regularization (extreme color jitter, grayscale, cutout, etc). The article also discusses: • why unrealistic augmentations can still improve […]