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.

**VoVNet** is a convolutional neural network that seeks to make [DenseNet](https://paperswithcode.com/method/densenet) more efficient by concatenating all features only once in the last feature map, which makes input size constant and enables enlarging new output channel. In the Figure to the right, $F$ represents a [convolution](https://paperswithcode.com/method/convolution) layer and $\otimes$ indicates concatenation.

VoVNet

An Energy and GPU-Computation Efficient Backbone Network for Real-Time Object Detection

Random Erasing

Random Erasing Data Augmentation

**Sarsa** is an on-policy TD control algorithm:

$$Q\left(S\_{t}, A\_{t}\right) \leftarrow Q\left(S\_{t}, A\_{t}\right) + \alpha\left[R_{t+1} + \gamma{Q}\left(S\_{t+1}, A\_{t+1}\right) - Q\left(S\_{t}, A\_{t}\right)\right] $$

This update is done after every transition from a nonterminal state $S\_{t}$. if $S\_{t+1}$ is terminal, then $Q\left(S\_{t+1}, A\_{t+1}\right)$ is defined as zero.

To design an on-policy control algorithm using Sarsa, we estimate $q\_{\pi}$ for a behaviour policy $\pi$ and then change $\pi$ towards greediness with respect to $q\_{\pi}$.

Source: Sutton and Barto, Reinforcement Learning, 2nd Edition

Source	Random Erasing Data Augmentation
Year	2000
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