mindspore.dataset.CocoDataset

class mindspore.dataset.CocoDataset(dataset_dir, annotation_file, task='Detection', num_samples=None, num_parallel_workers=None, shuffle=None, decode=False, sampler=None, num_shards=None, shard_id=None, cache=None, extra_metadata=False, decrypt=None)[source]

COCO(Common Objects in Context) dataset.

CocoDataset supports five kinds of tasks, which are Object Detection, Keypoint Detection, Stuff Segmentation, Panoptic Segmentation and Captioning of 2017 Train/Val/Test dataset.

Parameters
  • dataset_dir (str) – Path to the root directory that contains the dataset.

  • annotation_file (str) – Path to the annotation JSON file.

  • task (str, optional) – Set the task type for reading COCO data. Supported task types: 'Detection', 'Stuff', 'Panoptic', 'Keypoint' and 'Captioning'. Default: 'Detection'.

  • num_samples (int, optional) – The number of images to be included in the dataset. Default: None , all images.

  • num_parallel_workers (int, optional) – Number of worker threads to read the data. Default: None , will use global default workers(8), it can be set by mindspore.dataset.config.set_num_parallel_workers() .

  • shuffle (bool, optional) – Whether to perform shuffle on the dataset. Default: None , expected order behavior shown in the table below.

  • decode (bool, optional) – Decode the images after reading. Default: False.

  • sampler (Sampler, optional) – Object used to choose samples from the dataset. Default: None , expected order behavior shown in the table below.

  • num_shards (int, optional) – Number of shards that the dataset will be divided into. Default: None . When this argument is specified, num_samples reflects the maximum sample number of per shard.

  • shard_id (int, optional) – The shard ID within num_shards . Default: None . This argument can only be specified when num_shards is also specified.

  • cache (DatasetCache, optional) – Use tensor caching service to speed up dataset processing. More details: Single-Node Data Cache . Default: None , which means no cache is used.

  • extra_metadata (bool, optional) – Flag to add extra meta-data to row. If True, an additional column will be output at the end [_meta-filename, dtype=string] . Default: False.

  • decrypt (callable, optional) – Image decryption function, which accepts the path of the encrypted image file and returns the decrypted bytes data. Default: None , no decryption.

The generated dataset with different task setting has different output columns:

task

Output column

Detection

[image, dtype=uint8]

[bbox, dtype=float32]

[category_id, dtype=uint32]

[iscrowd, dtype=uint32]

Stuff

[image, dtype=uint8]

[segmentation, dtype=float32]

[iscrowd, dtype=uint32]

Keypoint

[image, dtype=uint8]

[keypoints, dtype=float32]

[num_keypoints, dtype=uint32]

Panoptic

[image, dtype=uint8]

[bbox, dtype=float32]

[category_id, dtype=uint32]

[iscrowd, dtype=uint32]

[area, dtype=uint32]

Raises
  • RuntimeError – If dataset_dir does not contain data files.

  • RuntimeError – If sampler and shuffle are specified at the same time.

  • RuntimeError – If sampler and num_shards/shard_id are specified at the same time.

  • RuntimeError – If num_shards is specified but shard_id is None.

  • RuntimeError – If shard_id is specified but num_shards is None.

  • RuntimeError – If parse JSON file failed.

  • ValueError – If num_parallel_workers exceeds the max thread numbers.

  • ValueError – If task is not 'Detection', 'Stuff', 'Panoptic', 'Keypoint' or 'Captioning'.

  • ValueError – If annotation_file is not exist.

  • ValueError – If dataset_dir is not exist.

  • ValueError – If shard_id is not in range of [0, num_shards ).

Tutorial Examples:

Note

  • Column ‘[_meta-filename, dtype=string]’ won’t be output unless an explicit rename dataset op is added to remove the prefix(‘_meta-‘).

  • Not support mindspore.dataset.PKSampler for sampler parameter yet.

  • This dataset can take in a sampler . sampler and shuffle are mutually exclusive. The table below shows what input arguments are allowed and their expected behavior.

Expected Order Behavior of Using sampler and shuffle

Parameter sampler

Parameter shuffle

Expected Order Behavior

None

None

random order

None

True

random order

None

False

sequential order

Sampler object

None

order defined by sampler

Sampler object

True

not allowed

Sampler object

False

not allowed

Examples

>>> import mindspore.dataset as ds
>>> coco_dataset_dir = "/path/to/coco_dataset_directory/images"
>>> coco_annotation_file = "/path/to/coco_dataset_directory/annotation_file"
>>>
>>> # 1) Read COCO data for Detection task
>>> dataset = ds.CocoDataset(dataset_dir=coco_dataset_dir,
...                          annotation_file=coco_annotation_file,
...                          task='Detection')
>>>
>>> # 2) Read COCO data for Stuff task
>>> dataset = ds.CocoDataset(dataset_dir=coco_dataset_dir,
...                          annotation_file=coco_annotation_file,
...                          task='Stuff')
>>>
>>> # 3) Read COCO data for Panoptic task
>>> dataset = ds.CocoDataset(dataset_dir=coco_dataset_dir,
...                          annotation_file=coco_annotation_file,
...                          task='Panoptic')
>>>
>>> # 4) Read COCO data for Keypoint task
>>> dataset = ds.CocoDataset(dataset_dir=coco_dataset_dir,
...                          annotation_file=coco_annotation_file,
...                          task='Keypoint')
>>>
>>> # 5) Read COCO data for Captioning task
>>> dataset = ds.CocoDataset(dataset_dir=coco_dataset_dir,
...                          annotation_file=coco_annotation_file,
...                          task='Captioning')
>>>
>>> # In COCO dataset, each dictionary has keys "image" and "annotation"

About COCO dataset:

COCO(Microsoft Common Objects in Context) is a large-scale object detection, segmentation, and captioning dataset with several features: Object segmentation, Recognition in context, Superpixel stuff segmentation, 330K images (>200K labeled), 1.5 million object instances, 80 object categories, 91 stuff categories, 5 captions per image, 250,000 people with keypoints. In contrast to the popular ImageNet dataset, COCO has fewer categories but more instances in per category.

You can unzip the original COCO-2017 dataset files into this directory structure and read by MindSpore’s API.

.
└── coco_dataset_directory
     ├── train2017
     │    ├── 000000000009.jpg
     │    ├── 000000000025.jpg
     │    ├── ...
     ├── test2017
     │    ├── 000000000001.jpg
     │    ├── 000000058136.jpg
     │    ├── ...
     ├── val2017
     │    ├── 000000000139.jpg
     │    ├── 000000057027.jpg
     │    ├── ...
     └── annotations
          ├── captions_train2017.json
          ├── captions_val2017.json
          ├── instances_train2017.json
          ├── instances_val2017.json
          ├── person_keypoints_train2017.json
          └── person_keypoints_val2017.json

Citation:

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/LinMBHPRDZ14,
author        = {Tsung{-}Yi Lin and Michael Maire and Serge J. Belongie and
                Lubomir D. Bourdev and  Ross B. Girshick and James Hays and
                Pietro Perona and Deva Ramanan and Piotr Doll{'{a}}r and C. Lawrence Zitnick},
title         = {Microsoft {COCO:} Common Objects in Context},
journal       = {CoRR},
volume        = {abs/1405.0312},
year          = {2014},
url           = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0312},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint        = {1405.0312},
timestamp     = {Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:48:13 +0200},
biburl        = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/LinMBHPRDZ14.bib},
bibsource     = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Pre-processing Operation

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.apply

Apply a function in this dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.concat

Concatenate the dataset objects in the input list.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.filter

Filter dataset by prediction.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.flat_map

Map func to each row in dataset and flatten the result.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.map

Apply each operation in operations to this dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.project

The specified columns will be selected from the dataset and passed into the pipeline with the order specified.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.rename

Rename the columns in input datasets.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.repeat

Repeat this dataset count times.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.reset

Reset the dataset for next epoch.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.save

Save the dynamic data processed by the dataset pipeline in common dataset format.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.shuffle

Shuffle the dataset by creating a cache with the size of buffer_size .

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.skip

Skip the first N elements of this dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.split

Split the dataset into smaller, non-overlapping datasets.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.take

Takes at most given numbers of elements from the dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.zip

Zip the datasets in the sense of input tuple of datasets.

Batch

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.batch

Combine batch_size number of consecutive rows into batch which apply per_batch_map to the samples first.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.bucket_batch_by_length

Bucket elements according to their lengths.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.padded_batch

Combine batch_size number of consecutive rows into batch which apply pad_info to the samples first.

Iterator

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.create_dict_iterator

Create an iterator over the dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.create_tuple_iterator

Create an iterator over the dataset.

Attribute

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.get_batch_size

Return the size of batch.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.get_class_indexing

Return the class index.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.get_col_names

Return the names of the columns in dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.get_dataset_size

Return the number of batches in an epoch.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.get_repeat_count

Get the replication times in RepeatDataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.input_indexs

Get the column index, which represents the corresponding relationship between the data column order and the network when using the sink mode.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.num_classes

Get the number of classes in a dataset.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.output_shapes

Get the shapes of output data.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.output_types

Get the types of output data.

Apply Sampler

mindspore.dataset.MappableDataset.add_sampler

Add a child sampler for the current dataset.

mindspore.dataset.MappableDataset.use_sampler

Replace the last child sampler of the current dataset, remaining the parent sampler unchanged.

Others

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.device_que

Return a transferred Dataset that transfers data through a device.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.sync_update

Release a blocking condition and trigger callback with given data.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.sync_wait

Add a blocking condition to the input Dataset and a synchronize action will be applied.

mindspore.dataset.Dataset.to_json

Serialize a pipeline into JSON string and dump into file if filename is provided.