How to make use of Labelled Images in AzureML Designer?

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How to make use of Labelled Images in AzureML Designer?

andrew blance 1

Hello! I have been labeling images in AzureML Data Labeling. I wish to use this labelled set in Designer, to prototype some model ideas. However, I cannot get this to work. Any output (Dataset, COCO or csv) seems not to be compatible with "Convert to Image Directory".

My question is quite similar to one asked over a year ago - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/32203/how-to-use-labeled-image-datasets-to-perform-an-im.html - the answer suggests a result was imminent. Has there been any update?

If there is not one individual module capable of parsing this information, is there a way to use multiple modules to import the data?

Thanks!

EDIT: The problem is also discussed here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/194940/how-to-use-azuremldataset.html
Is there a cleaner solution yet? Or is downloading it, converting to pandas, then reuploading the best thing to do?

YutongTie-MSFT 53,971 Reputation points Moderator

2021-08-15T07:49:29.227+00:00

Hello,

The solution mentioned by Rohit is workable. But I am checking internally to see if there any better one.

Regards,
Yutong
andrew blance 1 Reputation point

2021-08-15T15:20:38.113+00:00

Thanks! I'll try this out then

I am checking internally to see if there any better one.

I appreciate it!

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YutongTie-MSFT 53,971 Reputation points Moderator

2021-08-15T07:49:29.227+00:00

Hello,

The solution mentioned by Rohit is workable. But I am checking internally to see if there any better one.

Regards,
Yutong
andrew blance 1 Reputation point

2021-08-15T15:20:38.113+00:00

Thanks! I'll try this out then

I am checking internally to see if there any better one.

I appreciate it!

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YutongTie-MSFT 53,971 Moderator

Hello @andrew blance

Sorry I didn't hear anything from product team, what I can do now is I will continue following up with them to see any new ways for this and also I can help you enable a support ticket to escalate this issue for more awareness. Please let me know if you do not have a support plan, I can help you to enable a one time free ticket regarding to this issue. Thanks.

Regards,
Yutong

Johann Beukes 1 Reputation point

2021-10-12T14:06:12.583+00:00

This seems like a very big bug that needs to be fixed in order to use AzureML tools with each other.
Any update at this point?
Has this been escalated?
Ashley Schilling 1 Reputation point

2022-03-17T17:33:46.2+00:00

Hi @YutongTie-MSFT ,
I am also looking to use the labeled data in designer to train a model.
Has this issue been resolved?
andrew blance 1 Reputation point

2022-03-18T15:19:42.707+00:00
as far as I can tell, not yet.
Its been a little while since I was working on this and posted these questions, but if I recall correctly, my workaround was:

download the excel sheet of labels from Labeller

use Azure ML Notebooks instead

We had the images stored in blob somewhere if I recall correctly, and we had a huge number of them. At the time the function to download them was prohibitively slow, so we ended up mounting the directory. We found mounting, instead of downloading the images to the Azure ML workspace sped things up massively.

Then, with the mounted images, and downloaded list of labels, I could begin training

While this doesn't address my original question directly, this is what we did to continue with the project. I hope it helps - I might write up a blog post about this shortly.
Ashley Schilling 1 Reputation point

2022-03-18T15:24:07.207+00:00

Thanks so much!
And if you do write up a post, please link it here, I would definitely be interested.

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