diff --git a/imgaug/augmenters/pooling.py b/imgaug/augmenters/pooling.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/imgaug/augmenters/pooling.py
+++ b/imgaug/augmenters/pooling.py
@@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ class AveragePooling(_AbstractPoolingBase):
         #      to reflection padding
         return ia.avg_pool(
             image,
-            (max(kernel_size_h, 1), max(kernel_size_w, 1))
+            (max(kernel_size_h, 1), max(kernel_size_w, 1)),
+            cval=128
         )
 
 
@@ -325,7 +326,8 @@ class MaxPooling(_AbstractPoolingBase):
         #      to reflection padding
         return ia.max_pool(
             image,
-            (max(kernel_size_h, 1), max(kernel_size_w, 1))
+            (max(kernel_size_h, 1), max(kernel_size_w, 1)),
+            cval=0
         )
Improve cvals in pooling