객체 탐지를 위한 객체 복사 기반의 적대적 생성 신경망 활용 이미지 데이터 증강 기법

In the field of computer vision, massive well-annotated image data are essential to achieve good performance of a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. However, in real world applications, gathering massive well-annotated data is a difficult and time-consuming job. Thus, image data augmentation has been continually studied. In this paper, we proposed an image data augmentation method that could generate more diverse image data by combining generative adversarial network (GAN) and copy-paste based augmentation. The proposed method generated not pixel-level or image-level augmentation, but object-level augmentation by cutting off segmentation boundaries(mask) instead of bounding boxes. It then applyied GAN to transform objects.