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Random Erasing

19 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Zhun Zhong et al. in Random Erasing Data Augmentation

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

Random Erasing is a data augmentation method for training the convolutional neural network (CNN), which randomly selects a rectangle region in an image and erases its pixels with random values. In this process, training images with various levels of occlusion are generated, which reduces the risk of over-fitting and makes the model robust to occlusion. Random Erasing is parameter learning free, easy to implement, and can be integrated with most of the CNN-based recognition models. Random Erasing is complementary to commonly used data augmentation techniques such as random cropping and flipping, and can be implemented in various vision tasks, such as image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation.

In the Albumentations library, there is a generalization of RandomErasing called CoarseDropout, which allows masking an arbitrary number of regions of rectangular shape.

It could be applied to images, segmentation masks, and key points.

Documentation for CoarseDropout

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Data Augmentation12
Image Classification5
Person Re-Identification4
image-classification4
Object Detection3
object-detection3
Diversity2
General Classification2
Knowledge Distillation2
Meta-Learning2
Transfer Learning2
Adversarial Attack1
Anomaly Detection1
Cross-Modal Person Re-Identification1
Data Visualization1
Facial Expression Recognition1
Facial Expression Recognition (FER)1
Fine-Grained Image Classification1
Fire Detection1
Generalizable Person Re-identification1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Random Erasing: 2017 to 2025, peak 6 6 0 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 0 papers 2019 2020: 2 papers 2020 2021: 6 papers 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 5 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (19 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

Image Data Augmentation

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