Sample Pairing

• @inoueDataAugmentationPairing2018
• merges two images by averaging their pixel intensities
• The new image has the same training image label opposite to MixUp and other approaches where labels are updated according to the proportion of image mixing.
• one epoch on ImageNet and 100 epochs on other datasets are completed without SamplePairing before mixed image data is added to the training
• Once the SamplePairing images are added to the training set, they run in cycles between 8:2 epochs, 8 with SamplePairing images, 2 without.