# Shearing makes the bounding boxes move

**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/shearing-makes-the-bounding-boxes-move/494
**Category:** 🛠️ Feature Reqs
**Tags:** bugs
**Created:** [May 25, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/shearing-makes-the-bounding-boxes-move/494 "2022-05-25T23:42:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![vshesh](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/vshesh/32/332_2.png) [@vshesh](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/vshesh)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/shearing-makes-the-bounding-boxes-move/494/1 "2022-05-25T23:42:57Z")

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shearing is the difference in the second one and it makes the bounding boxes migrate!  
can this be fixed? I’ll train without shearing for now.

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### Author: ![Mohamed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/mohamed/32/62_2.png) [@Mohamed](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Mohamed)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/shearing-makes-the-bounding-boxes-move/494/2 "2022-05-26T14:19:03Z")

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Here is [how our Shear Augmentation works](https://blog.roboflow.com/shear-augmentation/).

Experimenting with reduced angles for the x/y settings on shear may also help. The very small symbols in your dataset introduce some difficulty in tracking objects with shearing augmentations.

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### Author: ![kamilalfian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/kamilalfian/32/4113_2.png) [@kamilalfian](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/kamilalfian)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/shearing-makes-the-bounding-boxes-move/494/3 "2024-03-28T11:10:28Z")

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up have the same problem. auto-orient already turned on. apparently it work well only for rotation and maybe flipping, but for more complicated process like shearing the bounding box cannot keep up. However polygon can keep up with shearing. But polygons are sometimes hassle and why use polygon while bounding box should suffice?