completely turn off mosaic/albumentations

[hwuebben]

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Hello,
How do I completely turn off any augmentation while training? I set all the appropriate parameters in the hyp file to 0.
But in the training data there ist still some what seems to be mosaic augmentation going on...

lr0: 0.01 # initial learning rate (SGD=1E-2, Adam=1E-3) lrf: 0.01 # final OneCycleLR learning rate (lr0 * lrf) momentum: 0.937 # SGD momentum/Adam beta1 weight_decay: 0.0005 # optimizer weight decay 5e-4 warmup_epochs: 3.0 # warmup epochs (fractions ok) warmup_momentum: 0.8 # warmup initial momentum warmup_bias_lr: 0.1 # warmup initial bias lr box: 0.05 # box loss gain cls: 0.5 # cls loss gain cls_pw: 1.0 # cls BCELoss positive_weight obj: 1.0 # obj loss gain (scale with pixels) obj_pw: 1.0 # obj BCELoss positive_weight iou_t: 0.20 # IoU training threshold anchor_t: 4.0 # anchor-multiple threshold fl_gamma: 0.0 # focal loss gamma (efficientDet default gamma=1.5) hsv_h: 0.0 # image HSV-Hue augmentation (fraction) hsv_s: 0.0 # image HSV-Saturation augmentation (fraction) hsv_v: 0.0 # image HSV-Value augmentation (fraction) degrees: 0.0 # image rotation (+/- deg) translate: 0.0 # image translation (+/- fraction) scale: 0.0 # image scale (+/- gain) shear: 0.0 # image shear (+/- deg) perspective: 0.0 # image perspective (+/- fraction), range 0-0.001 flipud: 0.0 # image flip up-down (probability) fliplr: 0.0 # image flip left-right (probability) mosaic: 0.0 # image mosaic (probability) mixup: 0.0 # image mixup (probability) copy_paste: 0.0 # segment copy-paste (probability)

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👋 Hello! Thanks for asking about image augmentation. YOLOv5 🚀 applies online imagespace and colorspace augmentations in the trainloader (but not the val_loader) to present a new and unique augmented Mosaic (original image + 3 random images) each time an image is loaded for training. Images are never presented twice in the same way.

You can set mosaic key in your augmentation hyp file to zero to completely disable mosaic augmentation.

Augmentation Hyperparameters

The hyperparameters used to define these augmentations are in your hyperparameter file (default data/hyp.scratch.yaml) defined when training:

python train.py --hyp hyp.scratch-low.yaml

yolov5/data/hyps/hyp.scratch-low.yaml

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	lr0: 0.01 # initial learning rate (SGD=1E-2, Adam=1E-3)
	lrf: 0.01 # final OneCycleLR learning rate (lr0 * lrf)
	momentum: 0.937 # SGD momentum/Adam beta1
	weight_decay: 0.0005 # optimizer weight decay 5e-4
	warmup_epochs: 3.0 # warmup epochs (fractions ok)
	warmup_momentum: 0.8 # warmup initial momentum
	warmup_bias_lr: 0.1 # warmup initial bias lr
	box: 0.05 # box loss gain
	cls: 0.5 # cls loss gain
	cls_pw: 1.0 # cls BCELoss positive_weight
	obj: 1.0 # obj loss gain (scale with pixels)
	obj_pw: 1.0 # obj BCELoss positive_weight
	iou_t: 0.20 # IoU training threshold
	anchor_t: 4.0 # anchor-multiple threshold
	# anchors: 3 # anchors per output layer (0 to ignore)
	fl_gamma: 0.0 # focal loss gamma (efficientDet default gamma=1.5)
	hsv_h: 0.015 # image HSV-Hue augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_s: 0.7 # image HSV-Saturation augmentation (fraction)
	hsv_v: 0.4 # image HSV-Value augmentation (fraction)
	degrees: 0.0 # image rotation (+/- deg)
	translate: 0.1 # image translation (+/- fraction)
	scale: 0.5 # image scale (+/- gain)
	shear: 0.0 # image shear (+/- deg)
	perspective: 0.0 # image perspective (+/- fraction), range 0-0.001
	flipud: 0.0 # image flip up-down (probability)
	fliplr: 0.5 # image flip left-right (probability)
	mosaic: 1.0 # image mosaic (probability)
	mixup: 0.0 # image mixup (probability)
	copy_paste: 0.0 # segment copy-paste (probability)

Augmentation Previews

You can view the effect of your augmentation policy in your train_batch*.jpg images once training starts. These images will be in your train logging directory, typically yolov5/runs/train/exp:

train_batch0.jpg shows train batch 0 mosaics and labels:

YOLOv5 Albumentations Integration

YOLOv5 🚀 is now fully integrated with Albumentations, a popular open-source image augmentation package. Now you can train the world's best Vision AI models even better with custom Albumentations 😃!

PR #3882 implements this integration, which will automatically apply Albumentations transforms during YOLOv5 training if albumentations>=1.0.3 is installed in your environment. See #3882 for full details.

Example train_batch0.jpg on COCO128 dataset with Blur, MedianBlur and ToGray. See the YOLOv5 Notebooks to reproduce:

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