/albumentations

fast image augmentation library and easy to use wrapper around other libraries

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Albumentations

Build Status Documentation Status

  • The library is faster than other libraries on most of the transformations.
  • Based on numpy, OpenCV, imgaug picking the best from each of them.
  • Simple, flexible API that allows the library to be used in any computer vision pipeline.
  • Large, diverse set of transformations.
  • Easy to extend the library to wrap around other libraries.
  • Easy to extend to other tasks.
  • Supports transformations on images, masks, key points and bounding boxes.
  • Supports python 2.7-3.7
  • Easy integration with PyTorch.
  • Easy transfer from torchvision.
  • Was used to get top results in many DL competitions at Kaggle, topcoder, CVPR, MICCAI.
  • Written by Kaggle Masters.

Table of contents

How to use

All in one showcase notebook - showcase.ipynb

Classification - example.ipynb

Object detection - example_bboxes.ipynb

Non-8-bit images - example_16_bit_tiff.ipynb

Image segmentation example_kaggle_salt.ipynb

Keypoints example_keypoints.ipynb

Custom targets example_multi_target.ipynb

Weather transforms example_weather_transforms.ipynb

You can use this Google Colaboratory notebook to adjust image augmentation parameters and see the resulting images.

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Authors

Alexander Buslaev

Alex Parinov

Vladimir I. Iglovikov

Evegene Khvedchenya

Installation

PyPI

You can use pip to install albumentations:

pip install albumentations

If you want to get the latest version of the code before it is released on PyPI you can install the library from GitHub:

pip install -U git+https://github.com/albu/albumentations

And it also works in Kaggle GPU kernels (proof)

!pip install albumentations > /dev/null

Conda

To install albumentations using conda we need first to install imgaug via conda-forge collection

conda install -c conda-forge imgaug
conda install albumentations -c albumentations

Documentation

The full documentation is available at albumentations.readthedocs.io.

Pixel-level transforms

Pixel-level transforms will change just an input image and will leave any additional targets such as masks, bounding boxes, and keypoints unchanged. The list of pixel-level transforms:

Spatial-level transforms

Spatial-level transforms will simultaneously change both an input image as well as additional targets such as masks, bounding boxes, and keypoints. The following table shows which additional targets are supported by each transform.

Transform Image Masks BBoxes Keypoints
CenterCrop
Crop
ElasticTransform
Flip
GridDistortion
HorizontalFlip
IAAAffine
IAACropAndPad
IAAFliplr
IAAFlipud
IAAPerspective
IAAPiecewiseAffine
Lambda
LongestMaxSize
NoOp
OpticalDistortion
PadIfNeeded
RandomCrop
RandomCropNearBBox
RandomRotate90
RandomScale
RandomSizedBBoxSafeCrop
RandomSizedCrop
Resize
Rotate
ShiftScaleRotate
SmallestMaxSize
Transpose
VerticalFlip

Migrating from torchvision to albumentations

Migrating from torchvision to albumentations is simple - you just need to change a few lines of code. Albumentations has equivalents for common torchvision transforms as well as plenty of transforms that are not presented in torchvision. migrating_from_torchvision_to_albumentations.ipynb shows how one can migrate code from torchvision to albumentations.

Benchmarking results

To run the benchmark yourself follow the instructions in benchmark/README.md

Results for running the benchmark on first 2000 images from the ImageNet validation set using an Intel Xeon Gold 6140 CPU. The table shows how many images per second can be processed on a single core, higher is better.

albumentations
0.3.0
imgaug
0.2.9
torchvision (Pillow backend)
0.3.0
torchvision (Pillow-SIMD backend)
0.3.0
Keras
2.2.4
Augmentor
0.2.3

solt 0.1.6
RandomCrop64 271641 3373 26538 83251 - 22535 21383
PadToSize512 2818 - 414 422 - - 2539
Resize512 2168 696 296 1046 - 297 1907
HorizontalFlip 991 162 4881 4595 167 4595 166
VerticalFlip 4244 2278 3066 3598 4162 2985 3486
Rotate 702 475 82 110 7 37 239
ShiftScaleRotate 1761 761 81 105 9 - -
Brightness 652 1520 316 408 149 308 2506
Contrast 1059 1539 231 316 - 241 2524
BrightnessContrast 646 861 128 174 - 130 1305
ShiftHSV 168 208 32 42 - - 107
ShiftRGB 555 1521 - - 477 - -
Gamma 483 - 801 858 - - 447
Grayscale 12097 88 728 915 - 2182 9140

Python and library versions: Python 3.7.3 | Anaconda, numpy 1.16.4, pillow 6.0.0, pillow-simd 5.3.0.post1, opencv-python 4.1.0.25, scikit-image 0.15.0, scipy 1.3.0.

Contributing

  1. Clone the repository:
    git clone git@github.com:albu/albumentations.git
    cd albumentations
    
  2. Install the library in development mode:
    pip install -e .[tests]
    
  3. Run tests:
    pytest
    
  4. Run flake8 to perform PEP8 and PEP257 style checks and to check code for lint errors.
    flake8
    

Adding new transforms

If you are contributing a new transformation, make sure to update "Pixel-level transforms" or/and "Spatial-level transforms" sections of this file (README.md). To do this, simply run (with python3 only):

python3 tools/make_transforms_docs.py make

and copy/paste the results in the corresponding sections. To validate your modifications, you can run:

python3 tools/make_transforms_docs.py check README.md

Building the documentation

  1. Go to docs/ directory
    cd docs
    
  2. Install required libraries
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    
  3. Build html files
    make html
    
  4. Open _build/html/index.html in browser.

Alternatively, you can start a web server that rebuilds the documentation automatically when a change is detected by running make livehtml

Comments

In some systems, in the multiple GPU regime PyTorch may deadlock the DataLoader if OpenCV was compiled with OpenCL optimizations. Adding the following two lines before the library import may help. For more details pytorch/pytorch#1355

cv2.setNumThreads(0)
cv2.ocl.setUseOpenCL(False)

Citing

If you find this library useful for your research, please consider citing:

@article{2018arXiv180906839B,
    author = {A. Buslaev, A. Parinov, E. Khvedchenya, V.~I. Iglovikov and A.~A. Kalinin},
     title = "{Albumentations: fast and flexible image augmentations}",
   journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
    eprint = {1809.06839},
      year = 2018      
}