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  "id": 80059,
  "title": "Would preserving the aspect ratio give better accuracy?",
  "url": "/competitions/humpback-whale-identification/discussion/80059",
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  "post_date": "2019-02-10T03:35:28.255372900Z",
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  "content": "<p>If we resize the images preserving the aspect ratio (doing necessary zero-padding when required to fit into the model), would we get better accuracy for a typical model?</p>",
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      "id": "468928",
      "postDate": "02/10/2019 03:35:28",
      "content": "<p>If we resize the images preserving the aspect ratio (doing necessary zero-padding when required to fit into the model), would we get better accuracy for a typical model?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If we resize the images preserving the aspect ratio (doing necessary zero-padding when required to fit into the model), would we get better accuracy for a typical model?",
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      "id": "469304",
      "postDate": "02/10/2019 23:09:46",
      "content": "<p>From <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification/discussion/79086\">that I saw</a>, just rescaling the bounding boxes works the best even if it looks counterintuitive.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From [that I saw][1], just rescaling the bounding boxes works the best even if it looks counterintuitive.\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification/discussion/79086",
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    {
      "id": 469304,
      "author_name": "iafoss",
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      "post_date": "02/10/2019 23:09:46",
      "content": "<p>From <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification/discussion/79086\">that I saw</a>, just rescaling the bounding boxes works the best even if it looks counterintuitive.</p>",
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    "468928": "If we resize the images preserving the aspect ratio (doing necessary zero-padding when required to fit into the model), would we get better accuracy for a typical model?",
    "469304": "From [that I saw][1], just rescaling the bounding boxes works the best even if it looks counterintuitive.\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification/discussion/79086"
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