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Enhancing Convolutional Neural Network Classification Performance through Dataset Enrichment: A Comparative Study

Term

4. term

Publication year

2024

Submitted on

Pages

21

Abstract

This research is an exploration to compare the effect of enriching a small dataset through different techniques. The techniques considered are duplicating images, adding augmented variations of the original images or generating synthetic images by means of an independent Deep Convolutional Generative Neural Network (DCGAN). Different classifiers were trained on different datasets, enriched through the different techniques. The classifiers trained on enriched datasets, including DCGAN generated datasets, shows promising results and were able to match or exceed the performance of the models trained on the baseline dataset. This suggests that artificially generating additional training data can enhance the classification process. However, further research is required to fully understand the limitations and potentials of these methods in different contexts and with various dataset characteristics.