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Data Augmentation with Python

By : Duc Haba
Book Image

Data Augmentation with Python

By: Duc Haba

Overview of this book

Data is paramount in AI projects, especially for deep learning and generative AI, as forecasting accuracy relies on input datasets being robust. Acquiring additional data through traditional methods can be challenging, expensive, and impractical, and data augmentation offers an economical option to extend the dataset. The book teaches you over 20 geometric, photometric, and random erasing augmentation methods using seven real-world datasets for image classification and segmentation. You’ll also review eight image augmentation open source libraries, write object-oriented programming (OOP) wrapper functions in Python Notebooks, view color image augmentation effects, analyze safe levels and biases, as well as explore fun facts and take on fun challenges. As you advance, you’ll discover over 20 character and word techniques for text augmentation using two real-world datasets and excerpts from four classic books. The chapter on advanced text augmentation uses machine learning to extend the text dataset, such as Transformer, Word2vec, BERT, GPT-2, and others. While chapters on audio and tabular data have real-world data, open source libraries, amazing custom plots, and Python Notebook, along with fun facts and challenges. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in image, text, audio, and tabular data augmentation techniques.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Data Augmentation
4
Part 2: Image Augmentation
7
Part 3: Text Augmentation
10
Part 4: Audio Data Augmentation
13
Part 5: Tabular Data Augmentation

Geometric and photometric transformations

As discussed in Chapter 3, geometric transformations alter a picture’s geometry, such as by flipping, cropping, padding, rotating, or resizing it. For segmentation, when horizontally flipping an image, the same must be done for the mask. Pluto will show you how to flip an original and accompanying mask image; here is a sneak peek:

Figure 4.1 – Image segmentation horizontal flip

Figure 4.1 – Image segmentation horizontal flip

Many of the safe values discussed in Chapter 3 stay mostly the same. For example, if the picture’s subject is people or an urban cityscape, the classification augmentation can’t flip vertically because the prediction of people’s age or the city’s name relies on the picture not being upside down. However, segmentation aims to group or draw an outline of the people or cars. Thus, vertical flipping is acceptable.

The safe range needs further investigation for many real-world applications. For example...