How much images will generate after data albumentation augmentation

[yjackboo]

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Hi,

I know we can use albumentation augmentation with yolov5. I want to know how many images will generate during training yolov5 model, when we use albumentation with it.

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[glenn-jocher]

@yjackboo 👋 Hello! Thanks for asking about image augmentation. YOLOv5 🚀 applies online imagespace and colorspace augmentations in the trainloader (but not the val_loader) to present a new and unique augmented Mosaic (original image + 3 random images) each time an image is loaded for training. Images are never presented twice in the same way.

Augmentation Hyperparameters

The hyperparameters used to define these augmentations are in your hyperparameter file (default data/hyp.scratch.yaml) defined when training:

python train.py --hyp hyp.scratch-low.yaml

yolov5/data/hyps/hyp.scratch-low.yaml

Lines 6 to 34 in b94b59e

	lr0: 0.01 # initial learning rate (SGD=1E-2, Adam=1E-3)
	lrf: 0.01 # final OneCycleLR learning rate (lr0 * lrf)
	momentum: 0.937 # SGD momentum/Adam beta1
	weight_decay: 0.0005 # optimizer weight decay 5e-4
	warmup_epochs: 3.0 # warmup epochs (fractions ok)
	warmup_momentum: 0.8 # warmup initial momentum
	warmup_bias_lr: 0.1 # warmup initial bias lr
	box: 0.05 # box loss gain
	cls: 0.5 # cls loss gain
	cls_pw: 1.0 # cls BCELoss positive_weight
	obj: 1.0 # obj loss gain (scale with pixels)
	obj_pw: 1.0 # obj BCELoss positive_weight
	iou_t: 0.20 # IoU training threshold
	anchor_t: 4.0 # anchor-multiple threshold
	# anchors: 3 # anchors per output layer (0 to ignore)
	fl_gamma: 0.0 # focal loss gamma (efficientDet default gamma=1.5)
	hsv_h: 0.015 # image HSV-Hue augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_s: 0.7 # image HSV-Saturation augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_v: 0.4 # image HSV-Value augmentation (fraction)
	degrees: 0.0 # image rotation (+/- deg)
	translate: 0.1 # image translation (+/- fraction)
	scale: 0.5 # image scale (+/- gain)
	shear: 0.0 # image shear (+/- deg)
	perspective: 0.0 # image perspective (+/- fraction), range 0-0.001
	flipud: 0.0 # image flip up-down (probability)
	fliplr: 0.5 # image flip left-right (probability)
	mosaic: 1.0 # image mosaic (probability)
	mixup: 0.0 # image mixup (probability)
	copy_paste: 0.0 # segment copy-paste (probability)

Augmentation Previews

You can view the effect of your augmentation policy in your train_batch*.jpg images once training starts. These images will be in your train logging directory, typically yolov5/runs/train/exp:

train_batch0.jpg shows train batch 0 mosaics and labels:

YOLOv5 Albumentations Integration

YOLOv5 🚀 is now fully integrated with Albumentations, a popular open-source image augmentation package. Now you can train the world's best Vision AI models even better with custom Albumentations 😃!

PR #3882 implements this integration, which will automatically apply Albumentations transforms during YOLOv5 training if albumentations>=1.0.3 is installed in your environment. See #3882 for full details.

Example train_batch0.jpg on COCO128 dataset with Blur, MedianBlur and ToGray. See the YOLOv5 Notebooks to reproduce:

Good luck 🍀 and let us know if you have any other questions!

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[Sarouch]

@yjackboo 👋 Hello! Thanks for asking about image augmentation. YOLOv5 🚀 applies online imagespace and colorspace augmentations in the trainloader (but not the val_loader) to present a new and unique augmented Mosaic (original image + 3 random images) each time an image is loaded for training. Images are never presented twice in the same way.

Augmentation Hyperparameters

The hyperparameters used to define these augmentations are in your hyperparameter file (default data/hyp.scratch.yaml) defined when training:

python train.py --hyp hyp.scratch-low.yaml

yolov5/data/hyps/hyp.scratch-low.yaml

Lines 6 to 34 in b94b59e

	lr0: 0.01 # initial learning rate (SGD=1E-2, Adam=1E-3)
	lrf: 0.01 # final OneCycleLR learning rate (lr0 * lrf)
	momentum: 0.937 # SGD momentum/Adam beta1
	weight_decay: 0.0005 # optimizer weight decay 5e-4
	warmup_epochs: 3.0 # warmup epochs (fractions ok)
	warmup_momentum: 0.8 # warmup initial momentum
	warmup_bias_lr: 0.1 # warmup initial bias lr
	box: 0.05 # box loss gain
	cls: 0.5 # cls loss gain
	cls_pw: 1.0 # cls BCELoss positive_weight
	obj: 1.0 # obj loss gain (scale with pixels)
	obj_pw: 1.0 # obj BCELoss positive_weight
	iou_t: 0.20 # IoU training threshold
	anchor_t: 4.0 # anchor-multiple threshold
	# anchors: 3 # anchors per output layer (0 to ignore)
	fl_gamma: 0.0 # focal loss gamma (efficientDet default gamma=1.5)
	hsv_h: 0.015 # image HSV-Hue augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_s: 0.7 # image HSV-Saturation augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_v: 0.4 # image HSV-Value augmentation (fraction)
	degrees: 0.0 # image rotation (+/- deg)
	translate: 0.1 # image translation (+/- fraction)
	scale: 0.5 # image scale (+/- gain)
	shear: 0.0 # image shear (+/- deg)
	perspective: 0.0 # image perspective (+/- fraction), range 0-0.001
	flipud: 0.0 # image flip up-down (probability)
	fliplr: 0.5 # image flip left-right (probability)
	mosaic: 1.0 # image mosaic (probability)
	mixup: 0.0 # image mixup (probability)
	copy_paste: 0.0 # segment copy-paste (probability)

Augmentation Previews

You can view the effect of your augmentation policy in your train_batch*.jpg images once training starts. These images will be in your train logging directory, typically yolov5/runs/train/exp:

train_batch0.jpg shows train batch 0 mosaics and labels:

YOLOv5 Albumentations Integration

YOLOv5 🚀 is now fully integrated with Albumentations, a popular open-source image augmentation package. Now you can train the world's best Vision AI models even better with custom Albumentations 😃!

PR #3882 implements this integration, which will automatically apply Albumentations transforms during YOLOv5 training if albumentations>=1.0.3 is installed in your environment. See #3882 for full details.

Example train_batch0.jpg on COCO128 dataset with Blur, MedianBlur and ToGray. See the YOLOv5 Notebooks to reproduce:

Good luck 🍀 and let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi @glenn-jocher ! Do you mean by (original image + 3 augmented images) that my new augmented dataset is (3*N+N) where N is my initial amount of data ? and the model train on these new augmented data? Is there a way to modify the number of augmented images? (changing the 3 to 5 for example to have more data? )

[glenn-jocher]

👋 Hi @Sarouch! That's a great question. When I mentioned "original image + 3 random images," I was referring to the Mosaic augmentation, which combines 4 images into one. This means that no additional copies of the original images are created, but rather novel combinations of images for training.

If you want to increase the number of augmented images, you can certainly modify the augmentation hyperparameters in your hyp.yaml file. Look for the hsv, degrees, translate, scale, shear, perspective, and flip_ud and flip_lr parameters, among others, to customize the kind and extent of augmentation.

Remember that increasing the number of augmented images doesn't always improve model performance, as there is a tradeoff between diversity and information. Additionally, the risk of overfitting may also be heightened.

Good luck 🍀, and feel free to reach out if you have any more questions!