chitra

What is chitra?

chitra (चित्र) is a multi-functional library for full-stack Deep Learning. It simplifies Model Building, API development, and Model Deployment.

Components

Load Image from Internet url, filepath or numpy array and plot Bounding Boxes on the images easily. Model Training and Explainable AI. Easily create UI for Machine Learning models or Rest API backend that can be deployed for serving ML Models in Production.

Highlights:

• [New] Auto Dockerization of Models
• [New] Framework Agnostic Model Serving & Interactive UI prototype app
• [New] Data Visualization, Bounding Box Visualization
• Model interpretation using GradCAM/GradCAM++ with no extra code
• Faster data loading without any boilerplate
• Progressive resizing of images
• Rapid experiments with different models using chitra.trainer module

Implementation Roadmap

• One click deployment to serverless platform.

If you have more use case please raise an issue/PR with the feature you want. If you want to contribute, feel free to raise a PR. It doesn't need to be perfect. We will help you get there.

Installation

Using pip (recommended)

1. Minimum installation pip install -U chitra

2. Full Installation pip install -U 'chitra[all]'

3. Install for Training pip install -U 'chitra[nn]'

4. Install for Serving pip install -U 'chitra[serve]'

From source

pip install git+https://github.com/aniketmaurya/chitra@master

git clone https://github.com/aniketmaurya/chitra.git
cd chitra
pip install .

Usage

Loading data for image classification

Chitra dataloader and datagenerator modules for loading data. dataloader is a minimal dataloader that returns tf.data.Dataset object. datagenerator provides flexibility to users on how they want to load and manipulate the data.

import numpy as np
import chitra
from chitra.dataloader import Clf, show_batch
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


clf_dl = Clf()
data = clf_dl.from_folder(cat_dog_path, target_shape=(224, 224))
clf_dl.show_batch(8, figsize=(8, 8))

Image datagenerator

Dataset class provides the flexibility to load image dataset by updating components of the class.

Components of Dataset class are:

• image file generator
• resizer
• label generator
• image loader

These components can be updated with custom function by the user according to their dataset structure. For example the Tiny Imagenet dataset is organized as-

train_folder/
.....folder1/
    .....file.txt
    .....folder2/
           .....image1.jpg
           .....image2.jpg
                     .
                     .
                     .
           ......imageN.jpg

The inbuilt file generator search for images on the folder1, now we can just update the image file generator and rest of the functionality will remain same.

Dataset also support progressive resizing of images.

Updating component

from chitra.datagenerator import Dataset

ds = Dataset(data_path)
# it will load the folders and NOT images
ds.filenames[:3]

def load_files(path):
    return glob(f'{path}/*/images/*')


def get_label(path):
    return path.split('/')[-3]


ds.update_component('get_filenames', load_files)
ds.filenames[:3]

Progressive resizing

It is the technique to sequentially resize all the images while training the CNNs on smaller to bigger image sizes. Progressive Resizing is described briefly in his terrific fastai course, “Practical Deep Learning for Coders”. A great way to use this technique is to train a model with smaller image size say 64x64, then use the weights of this model to train another model on images of size 128x128 and so on. Each larger-scale model incorporates the previous smaller-scale model layers and weights in its architecture. ~KDnuggets

image_sz_list = [(28, 28), (32, 32), (64, 64)]

ds = Dataset(data_path, image_size=image_sz_list)
ds.update_component('get_filenames', load_files)
ds.update_component('get_label', get_label)

# first call to generator
for img, label in ds.generator():
    print('first call to generator:', img.shape)
    break

# seconds call to generator
for img, label in ds.generator():
    print('seconds call to generator:', img.shape)
    break

# third call to generator
for img, label in ds.generator():
    print('third call to generator:', img.shape)
    break

tf.data support

Creating a tf.data dataloader was never as easy as this one liner. It converts the Python generator into tf.data.Dataset for a faster data loading, prefetching, caching and everything provided by tf.data.

image_sz_list = [(28, 28), (32, 32), (64, 64)]

ds = Dataset(data_path, image_size=image_sz_list)
ds.update_component('get_filenames', load_files)
ds.update_component('get_label', get_label)

dl = ds.get_tf_dataset()

for e in dl.take(1):
    print(e[0].shape)

for e in dl.take(1):
    print(e[0].shape)

for e in dl.take(1):
    print(e[0].shape)

Trainer

The Trainer class inherits from tf.keras.Model, it contains everything that is required for training. It exposes trainer.cyclic_fit method which trains the model using Cyclic Learning rate discovered by Leslie Smith.

from chitra.trainer import Trainer, create_cnn
from chitra.datagenerator import Dataset


ds = Dataset(cat_dog_path, image_size=(224, 224))
model = create_cnn('mobilenetv2', num_classes=2, name='Cat_Dog_Model')
trainer = Trainer(ds, model)
# trainer.summary()

trainer.compile2(batch_size=8,
    optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.SGD(1e-3, momentum=0.9, nesterov=True),
    lr_range=(1e-6, 1e-3),
    loss='binary_crossentropy',
    metrics=['binary_accuracy'])

trainer.cyclic_fit(epochs=5,
    batch_size=8,
    lr_range=(0.00001, 0.0001),
)

Training Loop... cyclic learning rate already set!

Model Interpretability

It is important to understand what is going inside the model. Techniques like GradCam and Saliency Maps can visualize what the Network is learning. trainer module has InterpretModel class which creates GradCam and GradCam++ visualization with almost no additional code.

from chitra.trainer import InterpretModel

trainer = Trainer(ds, create_cnn('mobilenetv2', num_classes=1000, keras_applications=False))
model_interpret = InterpretModel(True, trainer)

image = ds[1][0].numpy().astype('uint8')
image = Image.fromarray(image)
model_interpret(image)
print(IMAGENET_LABELS[285])

Returning the last set size which is: (224, 224)
index: 282
Egyptian Mau

Data Visualization

Image annotation

Bounding Box creation is based on top of imgaug library.

from chitra.image import Chitra
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

bbox = [70, 25, 190, 210]
label = 'Dog'

image = Chitra(image_path, bboxes=bbox, labels=label)
plt.imshow(image.draw_boxes())

See Play with Images for detailed example!

Model Serving (Framework Agnostic)

Chitra can Create Rest API or Interactive UI app for Any Learning Model - ML, DL, Image Classification, NLP, Tensorflow, PyTorch or SKLearn. It provides chitra.serve.GradioApp for building Interactive UI app for ML/DL models and chitra.serve.API for building Rest API endpoint.

from chitra.serve import create_api
from chitra.trainer import create_cnn

model = create_cnn('mobilenetv2', num_classes=2)
create_api(model, run=True, api_type='image-classification')

See Example Section for detailed explanation!

Utility

Limit GPU memory or enable dynamic GPU memory growth for Tensorflow.

from chitra.utility.tf_utils import limit_gpu, gpu_dynamic_mem_growth

# limit the amount of GPU required for your training
limit_gpu(gpu_id=0, memory_limit=1024 * 2)

No GPU:0 found in your system!

gpu_dynamic_mem_growth()

No GPU found on the machine!

Contribute

Contributions of any kind are welcome. Please check the Contributing Guidelines before contributing.

Code Of Conduct

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Acknowledgement

chitra is built with help of awesome libraries like Tensorflow 2.x, imgaug, FastAPI and Gradio.