Image 2 Vec with PyTorch

Medium post on building the first version from scratch: https://becominghuman.ai/extract-a-feature-vector-for-any-image-with-pytorch-9717561d1d4c

Applications of image embeddings:

Ranking for recommender systems
Clustering images to different categories
Classification tasks

Available models

Resnet-18 (CPU, GPU)
- Returns vector length 512
Alexnet (CPU, GPU)
- Returns vector length 4096

Installation

Tested on Python 3.6

Requires Pytorch: http://pytorch.org/

pip install img2vec_pytorch

Using img2vec as a library

from img2vec_pytorch import Img2Vec
from PIL import Image

# Initialize Img2Vec with GPU
img2vec = Img2Vec(cuda=True)

# Read in an image
img = Image.open('test.jpg')
# Get a vector from img2vec, returned as a torch FloatTensor
vec = img2vec.get_vec(img, tensor=True)
# Or submit a list
vectors = img2vec.get_vec(list_of_PIL_images)

For running the example, you will additionally need:

Pillow: pip install Pillow
Sklearn pip install scikit-learn

Running the example

git clone https://github.com/christiansafka/img2vec.git

cd img2vec/example

python test_img_to_vec.py

Expected output

Which filename would you like similarities for?
cat.jpg
0.72832 cat2.jpg
0.641478 catdog.jpg
0.575845 face.jpg
0.516689 face2.jpg

Which filename would you like similarities for?
face2.jpg
0.668525 face.jpg
0.516689 cat.jpg
0.50084 cat2.jpg
0.484863 catdog.jpg

Try adding your own photos!

Img2Vec Params

cuda = (True, False) # Run on GPU? default: False
model = ('resnet-18', 'alexnet') # Which model to use? default: 'resnet-18'

Advanced users

Additional Parameters

layer = 'layer_name' or int # For advanced users, which layer of the model to extract the output from. default: 'avgpool'
layer_output_size = int # Size of the output of your selected layer

Resnet-18

Defaults: (layer = 'avgpool', layer_output_size = 512)
Layer parameter must be an string representing the name of a layer below

conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=7, stride=2, padding=3, bias=False)
bn1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(64)
relu = nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
maxpool = nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1)
layer1 = self._make_layer(block, 64, layers[0])
layer2 = self._make_layer(block, 128, layers[1], stride=2)
layer3 = self._make_layer(block, 256, layers[2], stride=2)
layer4 = self._make_layer(block, 512, layers[3], stride=2)
avgpool = nn.AvgPool2d(7)
fc = nn.Linear(512 * block.expansion, num_classes)

Alexnet

Defaults: (layer = 2, layer_output_size = 4096)
Layer parameter must be an integer representing one of the layers below

alexnet.classifier = nn.Sequential(
            7. nn.Dropout(),                  < - output_size = 9216
            6. nn.Linear(256 * 6 * 6, 4096),  < - output_size = 4096
            5. nn.ReLU(inplace=True),         < - output_size = 4096
            4. nn.Dropout(),              < - output_size = 4096
            3. nn.Linear(4096, 4096),         < - output_size = 4096
            2. nn.ReLU(inplace=True),         < - output_size = 4096
            1. nn.Linear(4096, num_classes),  < - output_size = 4096
        )

To-do

Benchmark speed and accuracy
Add ability to fine-tune on input data
Export documentation to a normal place
Package for Pip