Does ImageDataGenerator add more images to my dataset?

Question

I\'m trying to do image classification with the Inception V3 model. Does ImageDataGenerator from Keras create new images which are added onto my dataset? If I h

Answer 1

Also note that: These augmented images are not stored in the memory, they are generated on the fly while training and lost after training. You can't read again those augmented images.

Not storing those images is a good idea because we'd run out of memory very soon storing huge no of images