Image classification as a service

I have a folder where I put all my cambridge holidays pictures... I would love to sort by topics my pictures of my holidays in Cambridge.

In fact, these pictures are a groundtruth for computer vision algorithms from University of Washington

Here is the expected result of the classification :

Oh dear god ! My computer analysed my pictures and recognized on its own all the churches of my cambridge holidays pictures and put them in the same folder :

Example

With this command line, I am now able to sort my pictures by topics as above

python3.5 messed_path_to_classify.py --out_path ./example/sorted ./example/cambridge

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Installation

The installation procedure has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04.

Dependancies

This code needs python3 and TensorFlow to work.

• Install python3 :

sudo apt-get install python3

• Install TensorFlow :

  You need to first install pip3 plugin for managing the modules.

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev

Then, install Tensorflow :

sudo pip3 install --upgrade <link>

Choose your link on tensorflow documentation.

Because of some difficulties to install TensorFlow with cuda and cudnn libraries, I used :
sudo pip3 install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-1.0.1-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl

Get the code

Once you have fill the requirements, you need to clone the repository :

git clone https://github.com/Tofull/image-classifier-service
cd image-classifier-service

Create an alias

The goal of creating an alias is to not care about the location of the repository but used it anywhere.

chmod +x ./alias.sh
./alias.sh

You could now use classify_path to call the script. Easier and faster.

Now have fun and classify your folder !

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Usage :

• Mainly use :

   classify_path --out_path ./sorted ./path_to_classify/
  

  where :

  • ./sorted is the destination path
  • ./path_to_classify/ is the path where images are located

• Help :

   classify_path -h
  

How does it work ?

• Label image with deep learning
• Create folder corresponding to the Label
• Copy the image into the right path

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TODO :

• Check if the code is working on Ubuntu 16
• Update installation part of the documentation
• Upgrade the code with the new tensorflow API : Op BatchNormWithGlobalNormalization is deprecated. It will cease to work in GraphDef version 9. Use tf.nn.batch_normalization()
• Try with GPU tensorflow
• Add png format use case (png decoder)
• Parallelize image recognition (check with openMP ?)
• Build a dockerfile to transform the script as a service
• Learn how to generate the model with my own data
• Create a responsive interface website (hosting the service) for no-computer-friendly people who want to sort their holiday pictures
• Keep playing with Tensorflow
• ⭐ Star the github repository
• Talk about this service to attract developers to contribute
• Revise this todo list

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Contributions

messed_path_to_classify.py has been created by Loic MESSAL (Student at the French National School of Geomatics).
24 March 2016