How to display custom images in TensorBoard using Keras?

Question

I'm working on a segmentation problem in Keras and I want to display segmentation results at the end of every training epoch.

I want something similar to Tensorflow: How to Display Custom Images in Tensorboard (e.g. Matplotlib Plots), but using Keras. I know that Keras has the TensorBoard callback but it seems limited for this purpose.

I know this would break the Keras backend abstraction, but I'm interested in using TensorFlow backend anyway.

Is it possible to achieve that with Keras + TensorFlow?

Answer 1

So, the following solution works well for me:

import tensorflow as tf

def make_image(tensor):
    """
    Convert an numpy representation image to Image protobuf.
    Copied from https://github.com/lanpa/tensorboard-pytorch/
    """
    from PIL import Image
    height, width, channel = tensor.shape
    image = Image.fromarray(tensor)
    import io
    output = io.BytesIO()
    image.save(output, format='PNG')
    image_string = output.getvalue()
    output.close()
    return tf.Summary.Image(height=height,
                         width=width,
                         colorspace=channel,
                         encoded_image_string=image_string)

class TensorBoardImage(keras.callbacks.Callback):
    def __init__(self, tag):
        super().__init__() 
        self.tag = tag

    def on_epoch_end(self, epoch, logs={}):
        # Load image
        img = data.astronaut()
        # Do something to the image
        img = (255 * skimage.util.random_noise(img)).astype('uint8')

        image = make_image(img)
        summary = tf.Summary(value=[tf.Summary.Value(tag=self.tag, image=image)])
        writer = tf.summary.FileWriter('./logs')
        writer.add_summary(summary, epoch)
        writer.close()

        return

tbi_callback = TensorBoardImage('Image Example')

Just pass the callback to fit or fit_generator.

Note that you can also run some operations using the model inside the callback. For example, you may run the model on some images to check its performance.