Generates batches of data from images in a directory (with optional augmented/normalized data)

Generates batches of data from images in a directory (with optional augmented/normalized data)

flow_images_from_directory(directory, generator = image_data_generator(),
  target_size = c(256, 256), color_mode = "rgb", classes = NULL,
  class_mode = "categorical", batch_size = 32, shuffle = TRUE,
  seed = NULL, save_to_dir = NULL, save_prefix = "",
  save_format = "png", follow_links = FALSE, subset = NULL,
  interpolation = "nearest")

Arguments

directory

path to the target directory. It should contain one subdirectory per class. Any PNG, JPG, BMP, PPM, or TIF images inside each of the subdirectories directory tree will be included in the generator. See this script for more details.
generator

Image data generator (default generator does no data augmentation/normalization transformations)
target_size

integer vectir, default: c(256, 256). The dimensions to which all images found will be resized.
color_mode

one of "grayscale", "rbg". Default: "rgb". Whether the images will be converted to have 1 or 3 color channels.
classes

optional list of class subdirectories (e.g. c('dogs', 'cats')). Default: NULL, If not provided, the list of classes will be automatically inferred (and the order of the classes, which will map to the label indices, will be alphanumeric).
class_mode

one of "categorical", "binary", "sparse" or NULL. Default: "categorical". Determines the type of label arrays that are returned: "categorical" will be 2D one-hot encoded labels, "binary" will be 1D binary labels, "sparse" will be 1D integer labels. If NULL, no labels are returned (the generator will only yield batches of image data, which is useful to use predict_generator(), evaluate_generator(), etc.).
batch_size

int (default: 32).
shuffle

boolean (defaut: TRUE).
seed

int (default: NULL).
save_to_dir

NULL or str (default: NULL). This allows you to optionally specify a directory to which to save the augmented pictures being generated (useful for visualizing what you are doing).
save_prefix

str (default: ''). Prefix to use for filenames of saved pictures (only relevant if save_to_dir is set).
save_format

one of "png", "jpeg" (only relevant if save_to_dir is set). Default: "png".
follow_links

whether to follow symlinks inside class subdirectories (default: FALSE)
subset

Subset of data ("training" or "validation") if validation_split is set in image_data_generator().
interpolation

Interpolation method used to resample the image if the target size is different from that of the loaded image. Supported methods are "nearest", "bilinear", and "bicubic". If PIL version 1.1.3 or newer is installed, "lanczos" is also supported. If PIL version 3.4.0 or newer is installed, "box" and "hamming" are also supported. By default, "nearest" is used.

Details

Yields batches indefinitely, in an infinite loop.

Yields

(x, y) where x is an array of image data and y is a array of corresponding labels. The generator loops indefinitely.

See also

Other image preprocessing: fit_image_data_generator, flow_images_from_data, image_load, image_to_array