What is the difference between min_scale and ratio in RandomResizedCrop? I did not understand the documentation Data augmentation in computer vision | fastai. As I understand, min_scale=0.8 means a random area of 80% of the image is cropped. What is the purpose of ratio then?
I’ve checked the source code (link is also in the docs) and found this part
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area = random.uniform(self.min_scale, self.max_scale) * w * h
ratio = math.exp(random.uniform(math.log(self.ratio[0]), math.log(self.ratio[1])))
nw = int(round(math.sqrt(area * ratio)))
nh = int(round(math.sqrt(area / ratio)))
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So I guess the ratio is to add some more randomeness
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Thank you for the reply. But why is it done like that?
Hey @s_j
Like how min_scale and max_scale define how much of the image should be cropped from the original, the ratio defines in what aspect ratio should this image be cropped.
For example, let min_scale = 0.6 and max_scale = 0.8. The augmentation picks a number between 0.6 and 0.8. Lets say 0.7. Now, 70% of the image needs to be selected. This could happen in an equal 1:1 width to height ratio (height = width), or this ratio could be 3 : 4 width to height. (width = (3/4) * height). The ratio parameter defines this. It gives us more augmentations.
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