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Description

A data augmentation library for Deep Learning that supports images, segmentation masks, labels, and keypoints. Furthermore, SOLT is fast and has OpenCV in its backend. Full auto-generated docs and examples are available at https://imedslab.github.io/solt/.

Features

  • Support of Images, masks, and keypoints for all the transforms (including multiple items at the time)
  • Fast and PyTorch-integrated
  • Convenient and flexible serialization API
  • Excellent documentation
  • Easy to extend
  • 100% Code coverage

Examples

Images: Cats Images + Keypoints: Cats Medical Images + Binary Masks: Brain MRI Medical Images + Multiclass Masks Knee MRI

E.g. the last row is generated using the following transforms stream.

stream = solt.Stream([
    slt.Rotate(angle_range=(-20, 20), p=1, padding='r'),
    slt.Crop((256, 256)),
    solt.SelectiveStream([
        slt.GammaCorrection(gamma_range=0.5, p=1),
        slt.Noise(gain_range=0.1, p=1),
        slt.Blur()    
    ], n=3)
])

img_aug, mask_aug = stream({'image': img, 'mask': mask})

If you want to visualize the results, you need to modify the execution of the transforms:

img_aug, mask_aug = stream({'image': img, 'mask': mask}, return_torch=False).data

Installation

The most recent version is available in pip:

pip install solt

You can fetch the most fresh changes from this repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/imedslab/solt

Benchmark

We propose a fair benchmark based on the refactored version of the one proposed by albumentations team. Still, here, we also convert the results into a PyTorch tensor and do the ImageNet normalization. The following numbers support a realistic and honest comparison between the libraries (number of images per second, the higher - the better):

albumentations
0.4.3		torchvision (Pillow-SIMD backend)
0.5.0		augmentor
0.2.8		solt
0.1.9
HorizontalFlip2253254925613530
VerticalFlip2380255725723740
RotateAny147913896702070
Crop2242566196619814281
Crop1285467573857207186
Crop6492859112904910345
Crop3211979105501060712348
Pad3001642109-2631
VHFlipRotateCrop157413346161889
HFlipCrop2391194319173572

Python and library versions: Python 3.7.0 (default, Oct 9 2018, 10:31:47) [GCC 7.3.0], numpy 1.18.1, pillow-simd 7.0.0.post3, opencv-python 4.2.0.32, scikit-image 0.16.2, scipy 1.4.1.

The code was run on AMD Threadripper 1900. Please find the details about the benchmark here.

How to contribute

Follow the guidelines described here.

Author

Aleksei Tiulpin, Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology Faculty of Medicine University of Oulu, Finland.

How to cite

If you use SOLT and cite it in your research, please, don't hesitate to send an email to Aleksei Tiulpin. All the papers that use SOLT are listed here.

@misc{solt2019,
  author       = {Aleksei Tiulpin},
  title        = {SOLT: Streaming over Lightweight Transformations},
  month        = jul,
  year         = 2019,
  version      = {v0.1.9},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.3702819},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3702819}
}