The study introduces FICAug, a feature-to-image data augmentation framework designed to improve model generalization under limited data conditions.
FICAug operates in the feature space, where original data are clustered and synthetic data is generated through Gaussian sampling.
These synthetic features are then projected back into the image domain using a generative neural network.
Experimental results demonstrate that FICAug significantly improves classification accuracy, achieving a cross-validation accuracy of 84.09% in the feature space and 88.63% when training a ResNet-18 model on the reconstructed images.