The using of data augmentation in machine learning in image processing tasks in the face of data scarcity

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the efficiency of various neural networks in the limited conditions of the source data and with a number of simple augmentations. In this case, the dependences were obtained for a serial neural network with back propagation of error. For data augmentation, the simplest transformations were used, including the letters tilting (italics), changing the color of letters (from black to red), as well as distortion of the reference images with white Gaussian noise at a signal-to-noise ratio q from 1 to 10. It is shown that the best results of recognition of letters of the Russian alphabet are provided by a network for which all the augmentation methods discussed in this work were used. A study of the dependence of recognition accuracy on the signal-to-noise ratio in all trained neural networkswas also conducted.