Level 3: Data Import and Export

Datumaro is a tool that supports public data formats across a wide range of tasks such as classification, detection, segmentation, pose estimation, or visual tracking. To facilitate this, Datumaro provides assistance with data import and export via both Python API and CLI. This makes it easier for users to work with various data formats using Datumaro.

Prepare dataset

For the segmentation task, we here introduce the Cityscapes, which collects road scenes from 50 different cities and contains 5K fine-grained pixel-level annotations and 20K coarse annotations. More detailed description is given by here. The Cityscapes dataset is available for free download.

Convert data format

Users sometimes need to compare, merge, or manage various kinds of public datasets in a unified system. To achieve this, Datumaro not only has import and export funcionalities, but also provides convert, which shortens the import and export into a single command line. Let’s convert the Cityscapes data into the MS-COCO format, which is described in here.

CLI

Without creation of a project, we can achieve this with a single line command convert in Datumaro

datum convert -if cityscapes -i <path/to/cityscapes> -f coco_panoptic -o <path/to/output>

Python

With Python API, we can import the data through Dataset as below.

from datumaro.components.dataset import Dataset

data_path = '/path/to/cityscapes'
data_format = 'cityscapes'

dataset = Dataset.import_from(data_path, data_format)

We then export the import dataset as

output_path = '/path/to/output'

dataset.export(output_path, format='coco_panoptic')

ProjectCLI

With the project-based CLI, we first require to create a project by

datum project create -o <path/to/project>

We now import Cityscapes data into the project through

datum project import --format cityscapes -p <path/to/project> <path/to/cityscapes>

(Optional) When we import a data, the change is automatically commited in the project. This can be shown through log as

datum project log -p <path/to/project>

(Optional) We can check the imported dataset information such as subsets, number of data, or categories through info.

datum project info -p <path/to/project>

Finally, we export the data within the project with MS-COCO format as

datum project export --format coco -p <path/to/project> -o <path/to/save> -- --save-media

Even if you are not sure about the format of the dataset, there’s no need to worry. You can easily detect the format in the next level, which is described in the next level!