Dataset Preparation

📁 Dataset Download: ⏬ Google Drive ⏬ 百度网盘 (提取码:basr)

Data Storage Format

At present, there are three types of data storage formats supported:

Store in hard disk directly in the format of images / video frames.
Make LMDB, which could accelerate the IO and decompression speed during training.
memcached is also supported, if they are installed (usually on clusters).

How to Use

At present, we can modify the configuration yaml file to support different data storage formats. Taking PairedImageDataset as an example, we can modify the yaml file according to different requirements.

Directly read disk data.

type: PairedImageDataset
dataroot_gt: datasets/DIV2K/DIV2K_train_HR_sub
dataroot_lq: datasets/DIV2K/DIV2K_train_LR_bicubic/X4_sub
io_backend:
  type: disk

Use LMDB. We need to make LMDB before using it. Please refer to LMDB description. Note that we add meta information to the original LMDB, and the specific binary contents are also different. Therefore, LMDB from other sources can not be used directly.
```
type: PairedImageDataset
dataroot_gt: datasets/DIV2K/DIV2K_train_HR_sub.lmdb
dataroot_lq: datasets/DIV2K/DIV2K_train_LR_bicubic_X4_sub.lmdb
io_backend:
  type: lmdb
```

Use Memcached Your machine/clusters mush support memcached before using it. The configuration file should be modified accordingly.

type: PairedImageDataset
dataroot_gt: datasets/DIV2K_train_HR_sub
dataroot_lq: datasets/DIV2K_train_LR_bicubicX4_sub
io_backend:
  type: memcached
  server_list_cfg: /mnt/lustre/share/memcached_client/server_list.conf
  client_cfg: /mnt/lustre/share/memcached_client/client.conf
  sys_path: /mnt/lustre/share/pymc/py3

How to Implement

The implementation is to call the elegant fileclient design in mmcv. In order to be compatible with BasicSR, we have made some changes to the interface (mainly to adapt to LMDB). See file_client.py for details.

When we implement our own dataloader, we can easily call the interfaces to support different data storage forms. Please refer to PairedImageDataset for more details.

LMDB Description

During training, we use LMDB to speed up the IO and CPU decompression. (During testing, usually the data is limited and it is generally not necessary to use LMDB). The acceleration depends on the configurations of the machine, and the following factors will affect the speed:

Some machines will clean cache regularly, and LMDB depends on the cache mechanism. Therefore, if the data fails to be cached, you need to check it. After the command free -h, the cache occupied by LMDB will be recorded under the buff/cache entry.
Whether the memory of the machine is large enough to put the whole LMDB data in. If not, it will affect the speed due to the need to constantly update the cache.
If you cache the LMDB dataset for the first time, it may affect the training speed. So before training, you can enter the LMDB dataset directory and cache the data by: cat data.mdb > /dev/nul.

In addition to the standard LMDB file (data.mdb and lock.mdb), we also add meta_info.txt to record additional information. Here is an example:

Folder Structure

DIV2K_train_HR_sub.lmdb
├── data.mdb
├── lock.mdb
├── meta_info.txt

meta information

meta_info.txt, We use txt file to record for readability. The contents are:

0001_s001.png (480,480,3) 1
0001_s002.png (480,480,3) 1
0001_s003.png (480,480,3) 1
0001_s004.png (480,480,3) 1
...

Each line records an image with three fields, which indicate:

Image name (with suffix): 0001_s001.png
Image size: (480, 480,3) represents a 480x480x3 image
Other parameters (BasicSR uses cv2 compression level for PNG): In restoration tasks, we usually use PNG format, so 1 represents the PNG compression level CV_IMWRITE_PNG_COMPRESSION is 1. It can be an integer in [0, 9]. A larger value indicates stronger compression, that is, smaller storage space and longer compression time.

Binary Content

For convenience, the binary content stored in LMDB dataset is encoded image by cv2: cv2.imencode('.png', img, [cv2.IMWRITE_PNG_COMPRESSION, compress_level]. You can control the compression level by compress_level, balancing storage space and the speed of reading (including decompression).

How to Make LMDB We provide a script to make LMDB. Before running the script, we need to modify the corresponding parameters accordingly. At present, we support DIV2K, REDS and Vimeo90K datasets; other datasets can also be made in a similar way.
python scripts/data_preparation/create_lmdb.py

Data Pre-fetcher

Apar from using LMDB for speed up, we could use data per-fetcher. Please refer to prefetch_dataloader for implementation.
It can be achieved by setting prefetch_mode in the configuration file. Currently, it provided three modes:

None. It does not use data pre-fetcher by default. If you have already use LMDB or the IO is OK, you can set it to None.
```
prefetch_mode: ~
```
prefetch_mode: cuda. Use CUDA prefetcher. Please see NVIDIA/apex for more details. It will occupy more GPU memory. Note that in the mode. you must also set pin_memory=True.
```
prefetch_mode: cuda
pin_memory: true
```
prefetch_mode: cpu. Use CPU prefetcher, please see IgorSusmelj/pytorch-styleguide for more details. (In my tests, this mode does not accelerate)
```
prefetch_mode: cpu
num_prefetch_queue: 1  # 1 by default
```

Image Super-Resolution

It is recommended to symlink the dataset root to datasets with the command ln -s xxx yyy. If your folder structure is different, you may need to change the corresponding paths in config files.

DIV2K

DIV2K is a widely-used dataset in image super-resolution. In many research works, a MATLAB bicubic downsampling kernel is assumed. It may not be practical because the MATLAB bicubic downsampling kernel is not a good approximation for the implicit degradation kernels in real-world scenarios. And there is another topic named blind restoration that deals with this gap.

Preparation Steps

Download the datasets from the official DIV2K website.
Crop to sub-images: DIV2K has 2K resolution (e.g., 2048 × 1080) images but the training patches are usually small (e.g., 128x128 or 192x192). So there is a waste if reading the whole image but only using a very small part of it. In order to accelerate the IO speed during training, we crop the 2K resolution images to sub-images (here, we crop to 480x480 sub-images).
Note that the size of sub-images is different from the training patch size (gt_size) defined in the config file. Specifically, the cropped sub-images with 480x480 are stored. The dataloader will further randomly crop the sub-images to GT_size x GT_size patches for training.
Run the script extract_subimages.py:
```
python scripts/data_preparation/extract_subimages.py
```
Remember to modify the paths and configurations if you have different settings.
[Optional] Create LMDB files. Please refer to LMDB Description. python scripts/data_preparation/create_lmdb.py. Use the create_lmdb_for_div2k function and remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.
Test the dataloader with the script tests/test_paired_image_dataset.py. Remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.
[Optional] If you want to use meta_info_file, you may need to run python scripts/data_preparation/generate_meta_info.py to generate the meta_info_file.

Common Image SR Datasets

We provide a list of common image super-resolution datasets.

Name	Datasets	Short Description	Download
Classical SR Training	T91	_{91 images for training}	Google Drive / Baidu Drive
	BSDS200	_{A subset (train) of BSD500 for training}
	General100	_{100 images for training}
Classical SR Testing	Set5	_{Set5 test dataset}
	Set14	_{Set14 test dataset}
	BSDS100	_{A subset (test) of BSD500 for testing}
	urban100	_{100 building images for testing (regular structures)}
	manga109	_{109 images of Japanese manga for testing}
	historical	_{10 gray low-resolution images without the ground-truth}
2K Resolution	DIV2K	_{proposed in NTIRE17 (800 train and 100 validation)}	official website
	Flickr2K	_{2650 2K images from Flickr for training}	official website
	DF2K	_{A merged training dataset of DIV2K and Flickr2K}	-
OST (Outdoor Scenes)	OST Training	_{7 categories images with rich textures}	Google Drive / Baidu Drive
OST (Outdoor Scenes)	OST300	_{300 test images of outdoor scenes}	Google Drive / Baidu Drive
PIRM	PIRM	_{PIRM self-val, val, test datasets}	Google Drive / Baidu Drive

Video Super-Resolution

It is recommended to symlink the dataset root to datasets with the command ln -s xxx yyy. If your folder structure is different, you may need to change the corresponding paths in config files.

REDS

Official website.
We regroup the training and validation dataset into one folder. The original training dataset has 240 clips from 000 to 239. And we rename the validation clips from 240 to 269.

Validation Partition

The official validation partition and that used in EDVR for competition are different:

name	clips	total number
REDSOfficial	[240, 269]	30 clips
REDS4	000, 011, 015, 020 clips from the original training set	4 clips

All the left clips are used for training. Note that it it not required to explicitly separate the training and validation datasets; and the dataloader does that.

Preparation Steps

Download the datasets from the official website.
Regroup the training and validation datasets: python scripts/data_preparation/regroup_reds_dataset.py
[Optional] Make LMDB files when necessary. Please refer to LMDB Description. python scripts/data_preparation/create_lmdb.py. Use the create_lmdb_for_reds function and remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.
Test the dataloader with the script tests/test_reds_dataset.py. Remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.

Vimeo90K

Official webpage

Download the dataset: Septuplets dataset --> The original training + test set (82GB).This is the Ground-Truth (GT). There is a sep_trainlist.txt file listing the training samples in the download zip file.
Generate the low-resolution images (TODO) The low-resolution images in the Vimeo90K test dataset are generated with the MATLAB bicubic downsampling kernel. Use the script data_scripts/generate_LR_Vimeo90K.m (run in MATLAB) to generate the low-resolution images.
[Optional] Make LMDB files when necessary. Please refer to LMDB Description. python scripts/data_preparation/create_lmdb.py. Use the create_lmdb_for_vimeo90k function and remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.
Test the dataloader with the script tests/test_vimeo90k_dataset.py. Remember to modify the paths and configurations accordingly.

StyleGAN2

FFHQ

Training dataset: FFHQ.

Download FFHQ dataset. Recommend to download the tfrecords files from NVlabs/ffhq-dataset.
Extract tfrecords to images or LMDBs. (TensorFlow is required to read tfrecords). For each resolution, we will create images folder or LMDB files separately.
```
python scripts/data_preparation/extract_images_from_tfrecords.py
```

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