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Dataset augmentation

A short video on how to handle having too little data to train a machine learning model

Performance bad and you don’t have enough data?

If you’ve trained a model on your data and performance is poor, it may be that you don’t have enough data. How much is enough? This is hard to say and varies depending on the domain and task.

In this video we look at some options for increasing the size of your dataset, including augmentation, which multiples the training images without needing more annotations. In the following video we will look at using synthetic data to do this.

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