Elastic Distortion Transformation on an image

Expanding Data Sets through Elastic Distortions

This file creates Elastic Distortion (deformations) on images for dataset expansion.
As an example, it is used a MNIST digit.

Reference:

Simard, P. Y.; Steinkraus, D.; Platt, J. C. (2003). Best practices for convolutional neural networks applied to visual document analysis. In: 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. Edinburgh, UK. DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227801