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# Noise Augmentation

Injects random salt and pepper noise to an image to help your model be more resilient to camera artifacts.

* Percent: Selects the percent of an image’s pixels that are affected, up to 25 percent.

## Example

<figure><img src="/files/ufNS2MakqYkLUS9g2SLi" alt=""><figcaption><p>Original Image</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/DU7vueHzj1EWLQXthcJL" alt=""><figcaption><p>Noise Augmentation set to .3%</p></figcaption></figure>

## Learn More

* [Why Add Noise to Images for Machine Learning](https://blog.roboflow.com/why-to-add-noise-to-images-for-machine-learning/)