Add elliptical rotation option to RotationTransform #1752
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This PR adds a small extension to the
RotationTransform
transform for object detection; the user can choose to rotate bounding boxes by approximating the underlying object as an ellipsis rather than a rectangle. This solves a common problem with using rotations, where the bounding boxes are enlarged (this can significantly hurt performance).In the below image, the original bounding box is shown in red, the "normal" way of rotating the bounding box (current behaviour) is shown in blue. The elliptical method added by this PR is shown in green. As you can see, the rectangular boxes are significantly larger than the objects which the boxes are for.
Source code for the below image
This PR adds this feature by overloading
RotationTransform.apply_box
and adding a new parameterbox_method
. The default behaviour is unchanged, but if the user setsbox_method='ellipsis'
they will get the tighter elliptical boxes. This also passes the linter :)For reference: [Paper showing significant performance improvements] [Same feature in albumentations]