CowMask

• @frenchMilkingCowMaskSemiSupervised2020
• semi-supervised learning
• original and augmented images are brought closer during training
• CowMask suggests two types of mixing approaches 1) erasing and 2) mixing two images similar to CutMix
• The mask here is of irregular shape rather than rectangular and generated by masking or keeping a proportion of image pixels through thresholding.
• [Gaussian filter](Gaussian filter.md) is applied to remove noise before thresholding.
• Pixel values below the threshold are either erased or replaced by the pixel values of the randomly selected image at the corresponding locations.