Humans don't need to do data augmentation over several thousands of frames just to learn to recognize an object or image. In the words of Joshua Tenenbaum and

Humans don't need to do data augmentation over several thousands of frames just to learn to recognize an object or image. In the words of Joshua Tenenbaum and coauthors, "human children learning names for object concepts routinely make strong generalizations from just a few examples". You can check this out for yourself on the brilliant illustration that went with it: http://i.imgur.com/5axtXSo.png http://i.imgur.com/5axtXSo.png From Tenenbaum J.B. et al, "How to grow a mind: statistics, structure, and abstraction," March 2011, Science, DOI:10.1126/science.1192788.