Usage

Here we describe the general usage of Augmentor.

Getting Started

To use Augmentor, the following general procedure is followed:

  1. You instantiate a Pipeline object pointing to a directory containing your initial image data set.
  2. You define a number of operations to perform on this data set using your Pipeline object.
  3. You execute these operations by calling the Pipeline’s sample() method.

We will go through each of these steps in order in the proceeding 3 sub-sections.

Step 1: Create a New Pipeline

Let us first create an empty pipeline. In other words, to begin any augmentation task, you must first initialise a Pipeline object, that points to a directory where your original image dataset is stored:

>>> import Augmentor
>>> p = Augmentor.Pipeline("/path/to/images")
Initialised with 100 images found in selected directory.

The variable p now contains a Pipeline object, and has been initialised with a list of images found in the source directory.

Step 2: Add Operations to the Pipeline

Once you have created a Pipeline, p, we can begin by adding operations to p. For example, we shall begin by adding a rotate() operation:

>>> p.rotate(probability=0.7, max_left_rotation=10, max_right_rotation=10)

In this case, we have added a rotate() operation, that will execute with a probability of 70%, and have defined the maximum range by which an image will be rotated from between -10 and 10 degrees.

Next, we add a further operation, in this case a zoom() operation:

>>> p.zoom(probability=0.3, min_factor=1.1, max_factor=1.6)

This time, we have specified that we wish the operation to be applied with a probability of 30%, while the scale should be randomly selected from between 1.1 and 1.6

Step 3: Execute and Sample From the Pipeline

Once you have added the operations that you require, you can generate new, augmented data by using the sample() function and specify the number of images you require, in this case 10,000:

>>> p.sample(10000)

A progress bar will appear providing a number of metrics while your samples are generated. Newly generated, augmented images will by default be saved into an directory named output, relative to the directory which contains your initial image data set.

Hint

A full list of operations can be found in the Operations module documentation.