Why padding the sides of training images?

[NikoBele1]

Hi, in your preprocessing code you add a 200px width black padding to both sides of the training images and downscale, instead of simply cropping 2048 x 2048 out of the original Nersemble images which are 2200 x 3208. Why is that?

[YuelangX]

@NikoBele1 Actually, I cropped 2600x2600 and resize it to 2048x2048 to ensure more content is included in the image.