Objects

The Objects pipeline reads a list of images and returns a list of detected objects.

Example

The following shows a simple example using this pipeline.

from txtai.pipeline import Objects
# Create and run pipeline
objects = Objects()
objects("path to image file")

See the link below for a more detailed example.

Notebook	Description
Generate image captions and detect objects	Captions and object detection for images

Configuration-driven example

Pipelines are run with Python or configuration. Pipelines can be instantiated in configuration using the lower case name of the pipeline. Configuration-driven pipelines are run with workflows or the API.

config.yml

# Create pipeline using lower case class name
objects:
# Run pipeline with workflow
workflow:
  objects:
    tasks:
      - action: objects

Run with Workflows

from txtai.app import Application
# Create and run pipeline with workflow
app = Application("config.yml")
list(app.workflow("objects", ["path to image file"]))

Run with API

CONFIG=config.yml uvicorn "txtai.api:app" &
curl \
  -X POST "http://localhost:8000/workflow" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"objects", "elements":["path to image file"]}'

Methods

Python documentation for the pipeline.

Source code in txtai/pipeline/image/objects.py

def __init__(self, path=None, quantize=False, gpu=True, model=None, classification=False, threshold=0.9, **kwargs):
    if not PIL:
        raise ImportError('Objects pipeline is not available - install "pipeline" extra to enable')
    super().__init__("image-classification" if classification else "object-detection", path, quantize, gpu, model, **kwargs)
    self.classification = classification
    self.threshold = threshold

Applies object detection/image classification models to images. Returns a list of (label, score).

This method supports a single image or a list of images. If the input is an image, the return type is a 1D list of (label, score). If text is a list, a 2D list of (label, score) is returned with a row per image.

Parameters:

Returns:

Source code in txtai/pipeline/image/objects.py

def __call__(self, images, flatten=False, workers=0):
    """
    Applies object detection/image classification models to images. Returns a list of (label, score).
    This method supports a single image or a list of images. If the input is an image, the return
    type is a 1D list of (label, score). If text is a list, a 2D list of (label, score) is
    returned with a row per image.
    Args:
        images: image|list
        flatten: flatten output to a list of objects
        workers: number of concurrent workers to use for processing data, defaults to None
    Returns:
        list of (label, score)
    """
    # Convert single element to list
    values = [images] if not isinstance(images, list) else images
    # Open images if file strings
    values = [Image.open(image) if isinstance(image, str) else image for image in values]
    # Run pipeline
    results = (
        self.pipeline(values, num_workers=workers)
        if self.classification
        else self.pipeline(values, threshold=self.threshold, num_workers=workers)
    )
    # Build list of (id, score)
    outputs = []
    for result in results:
        # Convert to (label, score) tuples
        result = [(x["label"], x["score"]) for x in result if x["score"] > self.threshold]
        # Sort by score descending
        result = sorted(result, key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
        # Deduplicate labels
        unique = set()
        elements = []
        for label, score in result:
            if label not in unique:
                elements.append(label if flatten else (label, score))
                unique.add(label)
        outputs.append(elements)
    # Return single element if single element passed in
    return outputs[0] if not isinstance(images, list) else outputs