Open Source Python Libraries

Albumentations is a computer vision tool that boosts the performance of deep convolutional neural networks. Albumentations is a Python library for fast and flexible image augmentations. Albumentations efficiently implements a rich variety of image transform operations that are optimized for performance, and does so while providing a concise, yet powerful image augmentation interface for different computer vision tasks, including object classification, segmentation, and detection. Albumentations supports different computer vision tasks such as classification, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, object detection, and pose estimation. Albumentations works well with data from different domains: photos, medical images, satellite imagery, manufacturing and industrial applications, Generative Adversarial Networks. Albumentations can work with various deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Keras.

Implementation of 'lightweight' GAN proposed in ICLR 2021, in Pytorch. The main contribution of the paper is a skip-layer excitation in the generator, paired with autoencoding self-supervised learning in the discriminator. Quoting the one-line summary "converge on single gpu with few hours' training, on 1024 resolution sub-hundred images". Augmentation is essential for Lightweight GAN to work effectively in a low data setting. You can test and see how your images will be augmented before they pass into a neural network (if you use augmentation). The general recommendation is to use suitable augs for your data and as many as possible, then after some time of training disable the most destructive (for image) augs. You can turn on automatic mixed precision with one flag --amp. You should expect it to be 33% faster and save up to 40% memory. Aim is an open-source experiment tracker that logs your training runs, and enables a beautiful UI to compare them.