# Image Embedding with Timm

*author: Jael Gu, Filip*



## Desription

An image embedding operator generates a vector given an image.
This operator extracts features for image with pretrained models provided by [Timm](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models).
Timm is a deep-learning library developed by [Ross Wightman](https://twitter.com/wightmanr),
which maintains SOTA deep-learning models and tools in computer vision.

## Code Example

Load an image from path './dog.jpg'
and use the pretrained ResNet50 model ('resnet50') to generate an image embedding. 

 *Write the pipeline in simplified style*:

```python
from towhee import dc

dc.glob('./dog.jpg') \
  .image_decode.cv2() \
  .image_embedding.timm(model_name='resnet50') \
  .show()
```

*Write a same pipeline with explicit inputs/outputs name specifications:*

```python
from towhee import dc

dc.glob['path']('./dog.jpg') \
  .image_decode.cv2['path', 'img']() \
  .image_embedding.timm['img', 'vec'](model_name='resnet50') \
  .select('vec') \
  .to_list()
```


## Factory Constructor

Create the operator via the following factory method

***image_embedding.timm(model_name='resnet34', num_classes=1000, skip_preprocess=False)***

**Parameters:**

​	***model_name***: *str*

​	The model name in string.
If no model name is given, it will use the default value "resnet34".
Refer [Timm Docs](https://fastai.github.io/timmdocs/#List-Models-with-Pretrained-Weights) to get a full list of supported models.

skip_preprocess (bool): 
Flag to control whether to skip image preprocess, defaults to False.
If set to True, image preprocess steps such as transform, normalization will be skipped.
In this case, the user should guarantee that all the input images are already reprocessed properly, and thus can be fed to model directly.


## Interface

An image embedding operator takes an image in ndarray as input.
It uses the pre-trained model specified by model name to generate an image embedding in ndarray.


**Parameters:**

​	***img***: *numpy.ndarray*

​	The decoded image data in numpy.ndarray.



**Returns**: *numpy.ndarray*

​	The image embedding extracted by model.