tensorflow/models · error · ValueError

`mask` elements should be in [0, 1]

Error message

`mask` elements should be in [0, 1]

What it means

Error "`mask` elements should be in [0, 1]" thrown in tensorflow/models.

Source

Thrown at official/vision/utils/object_detection/visualization_utils.py:667

def draw_mask_on_image_array(image, mask, color='red', alpha=0.4):
  """Draws mask on an image.

  Args:
    image: uint8 numpy array with shape (img_height, img_height, 3)
    mask: a uint8 numpy array of shape (img_height, img_height) with values
      between either 0 or 1.
    color: color to draw the keypoints with. Default is red.
    alpha: transparency value between 0 and 1. (default: 0.4)

  Raises:
    ValueError: On incorrect data type for image or masks.
  """
  if image.dtype != np.uint8:
    raise ValueError('`image` not of type np.uint8')
  if mask.dtype != np.uint8:
    raise ValueError('`mask` not of type np.uint8')
  if np.any(np.logical_and(mask != 1, mask != 0)):
    raise ValueError('`mask` elements should be in [0, 1]')
  if image.shape[:2] != mask.shape:
    raise ValueError('The image has spatial dimensions %s but the mask has '
                     'dimensions %s' % (image.shape[:2], mask.shape))
  rgb = ImageColor.getrgb(color)
  pil_image = Image.fromarray(image)

  solid_color = np.expand_dims(
      np.ones_like(mask), axis=2) * np.reshape(list(rgb), [1, 1, 3])
  pil_solid_color = Image.fromarray(np.uint8(solid_color)).convert('RGBA')
  pil_mask = Image.fromarray(np.uint8(255.0 * alpha * mask)).convert('L')
  pil_image = Image.composite(pil_solid_color, pil_image, pil_mask)
  np.copyto(image, np.array(pil_image.convert('RGB')))


def visualize_boxes_and_labels_on_image_array(
    image,
    boxes,
    classes,

View on GitHub (pinned to e006f5f0d5)

Solutions

1. Scale or threshold mask values into [0, 1].
2. Binarize soft masks with a threshold before visualization.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at official/vision/utils/object_detection/visualization_utils.py:667 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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