[elandau25]

Thanks! You have the application correct, but there are many ways by which we use this. An example is if you have trying to build models that require sequentially annotated images(like action recognition). Another is creating many micro-models that each only detect one type of object even though your general model will have to detect multiple objects.

In general, the theory of what you are saying is correct that this method annotates data that is correlated with the original set, but practically it is still quite useful. Having more ground truth to work with gives a lot more practical flexibility with things like sampling, testing your model, randomization, and training more robust versions of your model.