Resources

Resources are an easy way to manage large files that transforms need and are not included on easycv by default. Examples of such files are datasets and pre-trained models.

Creating a resource

Resources are represented by a YAML file. You can manually create this file or use the built-in resource creator.

Using resource creator

The following script creates a resource.

from easycv.resources import create_resource

create_resource()

>>> Resource name: test-resource
>>> Number of files: 1
>>> File 1 name: file1.txt
>>> File 1 url: example.com/file1.txt
>>> Downloading/hashing files...
>>> Resource created successfully

Manually

A resource can be represented by YAML file. We could create the resource described above with the following file:

To add this resource to easycv, save the file as test-resource.yaml and put it inside easycv\resources\sources.

Using resources

Resources can be used inside transforms to access big files that don’t ship with EasyCV by default.

For example, if you want to create a transform that uses a pre-trained neural network you can create a resource that represents the weights file. Then on your transform, if you require the resource, EasyCV downloads the resource automatically when the transform is used.

Let’s create a transform called TestTransform that uses the resource we created above. We can obtain a path to the file by using get_resource.

from easycv.resources import get_resource
from easycv.transforms.base import Transform

class TestTransform(Transform):
    def process(self, image, **kwargs):
        file = get_resource("test-resource", "file1.txt")
        (...) # do something with the file and the image
        return image

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