Use COCO Mask Parsing from pycocotools
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Description
🚀 The feature
The CocoDetection v2 transform wrapper attempts to decode the mask itself, but pycocotools provides a high performance implementation already. We have had to copy from master, this _dataset_wrapper.py because of a bug related to the handling of these masks that was fixed in master but not installable using pip yet.
https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/main/torchvision/tv_tensors/_dataset_wrapper.py#L402
Seeing torchvision.datasets.CocoDetection has self.coco as a COCO() object, let's use it.
coco_ann = dataset.coco.imgToAnns[image_id]
if "masks" in target_keys:
target["masks"] = tv_tensors.Mask(
torch.stack([
torch.from_numpy(dataset.coco.annToMask(ann))
for ann in coco_ann
])
)
Motivation, pitch
There have already been bugs related to this, and there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Instead, let's use the existing implementation.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in torchvision/tv_tensors/_dataset_wrapper.py around the referenced mask-decoding logic and inspect the CocoDetection dataset entry point. Verify how dataset.coco.imgToAnns and annToMask provide the annotations, then run the relevant existing dataset or transform tests; done means mask targets are decoded through pycocotools without changing expected output.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- computer-vision
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100