Eugene Khvedchenya

Dr. Eugene Khvedchenya

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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24 February 2020 in Information
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ABAlexander Buslaev
Alexander Buslaev
VIVladimir Iglovikov
Vladimir Iglovikov
EKEugene Khvedchenya
Eugene Khvedchenya
APAlex Parinov
Alex Parinov
MDMikhail Druzhinin
Mikhail Druzhinin
Alexandr KalininAlexandr Kalinin
Alexandr Kalinin
Data augmentation is a commonly used technique for increasing both the size and the diversity of labeled training sets by leveraging input transformations that preserve corresponding output labels. In computer vision, image augmentations have become a common implicit regularization technique to combat overfitting in deep learning models and are ubiquitously used to improve performance. While most deep learning frameworks implement basic image transformations, the list is typically limited to some variations of flipping, rotating, scaling, and cropping. Moreover, image processing speed varies in existing image augmentation libraries. We present Albumentations, a fast and flexible open source library for image augmentation with many various image transform operations available that is also an easy-to-use wrapper around other augmentation libraries. We discuss the design principles that drove the implementation of Albumentations and give an overview of the key features and distinct capabilities. Finally, we provide examples of image augmentations for different computer vision tasks and demonstrate that Albumentations is faster than other commonly used image augmentation tools on most image transform operations.