Should I try the classifier on flipped images too?

asked Sep 16 '14

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updated Sep 18 '14

I am training a Bag Of Words classifier. My application is based on this code. I have a question linked to the training database:

Should I mirror flipped the images, or this kind of classifier is invariant to the flipping operation?

For example, I have a class of car_lateral. Shall I mirror flip the images and add both (initial and flipped) in the training database?

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