Cutout Augmentation

Randomly mask portions of an image with black boxes to make your model resilient to object occlusion.

Cutout Augmentation is an Enhanced Augmentation, a premium feature.

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Cutout will randomly replace a portion of your image with black boxes. Add cutout to help your model be more resilient to object occlusion.

• Percent: The size of each cutout box as a percentage of the image. Higher values produce larger occluded regions.

• Count: The number of cutout boxes placed on each image. Higher values add more occlusions.

Many modern models apply Cutout as an online augmentation during training; applying it twice can cause undesirable results. We do not recommend using this with Roboflow 3.0 or YOLOv8.

Example

Original Image

Cutout set to 10%, 10 Count