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opencvtransforms 0.0.6

opencv_transforms
This repository is intended as a faster drop-in replacement for Pytorch's Torchvision augmentations. This repo uses OpenCV for fast image augmentation for PyTorch computer vision pipelines. I wrote this code because the Pillow-based Torchvision transforms was starving my GPU due to slow image augmentation.
Requirements

A working installation of OpenCV. Tested with OpenCV version 3.4.1, 4.1.0
Tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. There is evidence that OpenCV doesn't work well with multithreading on Linux / MacOS, for example num_workers >0 in a pytorch DataLoader. I haven't run into this issue yet.

Installation
opencv_transforms is now a pip package! Simply use

pip install opencv_transforms

Usage
Breaking change! Please note the import syntax!

from opencv_transforms import transforms
From here, almost everything should work exactly as the original transforms.

Example: Image resizing
import numpy as np
image = np.random.randint(low=0, high=255, size=(1024, 2048, 3))
resize = transforms.Resize(size=(256,256))
image = resize(image)

Should be 1.5 to 10 times faster than PIL. See benchmarks
Performance

Most transformations are between 1.5X and ~4X faster in OpenCV. Large image resizes are up to 10 times faster in OpenCV.
To reproduce the following benchmarks, download the Cityscapes dataset.
An example benchmarking file can be found in the notebook bencharming_v2.ipynb I wrapped the Cityscapes default directories with a HDF5 file for even faster reading.

The changes start to add up when you compose multiple transformations together.

TODO

Initial commit with all currently implemented torchvision transforms
Cityscapes benchmarks
Make the resample flag on RandomRotation, RandomAffine actually do something
Speed up augmentation in saturation and hue. Currently, fastest way is to convert to a PIL image, perform same augmentation as Torchvision, then convert back to np.ndarray