The Art Of Deep Learning Image Augmentation The Seeds Of Success

The Art of Deep Learning Image Augmentation: The Seeds of Success

This book addresses the critical challenge of limited training data in deep learning for computer vision by exploring and evaluating various image augmentation techniques, with a particular emphasis on deep learning-based methods. Chapter 1 establishes the core problem of data scarcity, outlining its negative impacts on model performance, and introduces traditional image augmentation techniques like geometric transformations, color space manipulations, and other methods such as noise injection. It highlights the limitations of these traditional approaches, including limited variation, lack of control, and inability to introduce new information, before introducing the advantages of deep learning-based augmentation, such as superior control, task adaptability, enhanced realism, and automation. Chapter 2 delves into GAN-based image augmentation, discussing how GANs generate realistic synthetic images for various applications like super-resolution and image-to-image translation, while also addressing the challenges associated with GAN training and potential future directions. Chapter 3 explores autoencoder-based image augmentation, covering techniques like VAEs, DAEs, and AAEs, and highlighting architectural considerations and challenges such as overfitting. Chapter 4 showcases the diverse applications of deep learning-based image augmentation and how it enhances various computer vision tasks by improving generalization, robustness, and accuracy. Chapter 5 discusses strategies for evaluating and optimizing deep learning image augmentation, including traditional metrics, image quality metrics, and hyperparameter tuning techniques. Finally, Chapter 6 explores cutting-edge advancements, covering AutoAugment, interpretable augmentation, attention-based augmentation, counterfactual augmentation, and human-in-the-loop augmentation, emphasizing the role of human expertise in creating high-quality augmented data.

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Hyperspectral Image Analysis

This book reviews the state of the art in algorithmic approaches addressing the practical challenges that arise with hyperspectral image analysis tasks, with a focus on emerging trends in machine learning and image processing/understanding. It presents advances in deep learning, multiple instance learning, sparse representation based learning, low-dimensional manifold models, anomalous change detection, target recognition, sensor fusion and super-resolution for robust multispectral and hyperspectral image understanding. It presents research from leading international experts who have made foundational contributions in these areas. The book covers a diverse array of applications of multispectral/hyperspectral imagery in the context of these algorithms, including remote sensing, face recognition and biomedicine. This book would be particularly beneficial to graduate students and researchers who are taking advanced courses in (or are working in) the areas of image analysis, machine learning and remote sensing with multi-channel optical imagery. Researchers and professionals in academia and industry working in areas such as electrical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, geosciences and biomedical image processing, who work with multi-channel optical data will find this book useful.