• 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.

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

Custom tasks such as autoencoders, more then three channel images - refer to Compose class documentation to use additional_targets.

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

Alexander Buslaev

Alex Parinov

Vladimir I. Iglovikov

Evegene Khvedchenya

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

To install albumentations using conda we need first to install imgaug with pip

pip install imgaug
conda install albumentations -c albumentations

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

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.

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 Core i7-7800X CPU. The table shows how many images per second can be processed on a single core, higher is better.

Python and library versions: Python 3.6.6 | Anaconda, numpy 1.15.2, pillow 5.3.0, pillow-simd 5.2.0.post0, opencv-python 3.4.3.18, scikit-image 0.14.1, scipy 1.1.0.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [email protected]: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
   

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

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)

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      
}