SAHI: Slicing Aided Hyper Inference

A lightweight vision library for performing large scale object detection & instance segmentation

Overview

Object detection and instance segmentation are by far the most important applications in Computer Vision. However, the detection of small objects and inference on large images still need to be improved in practical usage. Here comes the SAHI to help developers overcome these real-world problems with many vision utilities.

| Command | Description | |---|---| | predict | perform sliced/standard video/image prediction using any ultralytics/mmdet/detectron2/huggingface/torchvision model | | predict-fiftyone | perform sliced/standard prediction using any ultralytics/mmdet/detectron2/huggingface/torchvision model and explore results in fiftyone app | | coco slice | automatically slice COCO annotation and image files | | coco fiftyone | explore multiple prediction results on your COCO dataset with fiftyone ui ordered by number of misdetections | | coco evaluate | evaluate classwise COCO AP and AR for given predictions and ground truth | | coco analyse | calculate and export many error analysis plots | | coco yolov5 | automatically convert any COCO dataset to ultralytics format |

Quick Start Examples

List of publications that cite SAHI (currently 200+)

List of competition winners that used SAHI

Tutorials

• Introduction to SAHI

• Official paper (ICIP 2022 oral)

• Pretrained weights and ICIP 2022 paper files

• Visualizing and Evaluating SAHI predictions with FiftyOne (2024) (NEW)

• 'Exploring SAHI' Research Article from 'learnopencv.com'

• 'VIDEO TUTORIAL: Slicing Aided Hyper Inference for Small Object Detection - SAHI' (RECOMMENDED)

• Video inference support is live

• Kaggle notebook

• Satellite object detection

• Error analysis plots & evaluation (RECOMMENDED)

• Interactive result visualization and inspection (RECOMMENDED)

• COCO dataset conversion

• Slicing operation notebook

• YOLOX + SAHI demo: (RECOMMENDED)

• RT-DETR + SAHI walkthrough: (NEW)

• YOLOv8 + SAHI walkthrough: (NEW)

• SuperGradients/YOLONAS + SAHI: (NEW)

• DeepSparse + SAHI walkthrough:

• HuggingFace + SAHI walkthrough:

• YOLOv5 + SAHI walkthrough:

• MMDetection + SAHI walkthrough:

• Detectron2 + SAHI walkthrough:

• TorchVision + SAHI walkthrough:

Installation

Framework Agnostic Sliced/Standard Prediction

Find detailed info on sahi predict command at cli.md.

Find detailed info on video inference at video inference tutorial.

Find detailed info on image/dataset slicing utilities at slicing.md.

Error Analysis Plots & Evaluation

Find detailed info at Error Analysis Plots & Evaluation.

Interactive Visualization & Inspection

Find detailed info at Interactive Result Visualization and Inspection.

Other utilities

Find detailed info on COCO utilities (yolov5 conversion, slicing, subsampling, filtering, merging, splitting) at coco.md.

Find detailed info on MOT utilities (ground truth dataset creation, exporting tracker metrics in mot challenge format) at mot.md.

Citation

If you use this package in your work, please cite it as:

@article{akyon2022sahi, title={Slicing Aided Hyper Inference and Fine-tuning for Small Object Detection}, author={Akyon, Fatih Cagatay and Altinuc, Sinan Onur and Temizel, Alptekin}, journal={2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)}, doi={10.1109/ICIP46576.2022.9897990}, pages={966-970}, year={2022} }

@software{obss2021sahi, author = {Akyon, Fatih Cagatay and Cengiz, Cemil and Altinuc, Sinan Onur and Cavusoglu, Devrim and Sahin, Kadir and Eryuksel, Ogulcan}, title = {{SAHI: A lightweight vision library for performing large scale object detection and instance segmentation}}, month = nov, year = 2021, publisher = {Zenodo}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5718950}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5718950} }

Contributing

sahi library currently supports all YOLOv5 models, MMDetection models, Detectron2 models, and HuggingFace object detection models. Moreover, it is easy to add new frameworks.

All you need to do is, create a new .py file under sahi/models/ folder and create a new class in that .py file that implements DetectionModel class. You can take the MMDetection wrapper or YOLOv5 wrapper as a reference.

Before opening a PR:

• Install required development packages:

bash pip install -e ."[dev]"

• Reformat with black and isort:

bash python -m scripts.run_code_style format

Contributors