NVIDIA-NeMo / NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator

Support other files extension (besides .jpg) for ImageReader

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Since Dec 18, 2025.

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Description

Currently DALI only read .jpgs from .tar files (https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/blob/faff40f351c38dff20f22754b87c5e62b259cdb2/nemo_curator/stages/image/io/image_reader.py#L79).
Include other files extensions for better flexibility.

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