Better Object Detection: Image Augmentation with TensorFlow and Albumentations

In this tutorial, we explored integrating the Deep Lake, Albumentations, and TensorFlow libraries to enhance object detection tasks with data augmentation. We utilized the COCO dataset from Activeloop, leveraged Deep Lake for efficient dataset filtering on a metadata level, and implemented composed transformations using Albumentations both for image preprocessing and data augmentation. By doing this, we will achieve significantly more variation in the datasets and can train bigger models to better accuracy using smaller datasets. We also demonstrated how TensorFlow is used for image and annotation transformations, focusing on practical implementation without delving into model training. The next step for you should be to adapt the format of the images and the labels to suit your model; then, you can get started training your models on your dataset with TensorFlow.