BC-Breaking changes
[datasets] gdown is now a required dependency for downloading datasets that are on Google Drive. This change was actually introduced in 0.17.1 (repeated here for visibility) (#8237)
[datasets] The StanfordCars dataset isn’t available for download anymore. Please follow these instructions to manually download it (#8309, #8324)
[transforms] to_grayscale and corresponding transform now always return 3 channels when num_output_channels=3 (#8229)
Bug Fixes
[datasets] Fix download URL of EMNIST dataset (#8350)
[datasets] Fix root path expansion in Kitti dataset (#8164)
[models] Fix default momentum value of BatchNorm2d in MaxViT from 0.99 to 0.01 (#8312)
[reference scripts] Fix CutMix and MixUp arguments (#8287)
[MPS, build] Link essential libraries in cmake (#8230)
[build] Fix build with ffmpeg 6.0 (#8096)
New Features
[transforms] New GrayscaleToRgb transform (#8247)
[transforms] New JPEG augmentation transform (#8316)
Improvements
[datasets, io] Added pathlib.Path support to datasets and io utilities. (#8196, #8200, #8314, #8321)
[datasets] Added allow_empty parameter to ImageFolder and related utils to support empty classes during image discovery (#8311)
[datasets] Raise proper error in CocoDetection when a slice is passed (#8227)
[io] Added support for EXIF orientation in JPEG and PNG decoders (#8303, #8279, #8342, #8302)
[io] Avoiding unnecessary copies on io.VideoReader with pyav backend (#8173)
[transforms] Allow SanitizeBoundingBoxes to sanitize more than labels (#8319)
[transforms] Add sanitize_bounding_boxes kernel/functional (#8308)
[transforms] Make perspective more numerically stable (#8249)
[transforms] Allow 2D numpy arrays as inputs for to_image (#8256)
[transforms] Speed-up rotate for 90, 180, 270 degrees (#8295)
[transforms] Enabled torch compile on affine transform (#8218)
[transforms] Avoid some graph breaks in transforms (#8171)
[utils] Add float support to draw_keypoints (#8276)
[utils] Add visibility parameter to draw_keypoints (#8225)
[utils] Add float support to draw_segmentation_masks (#8150)
[utils] Better show overlap section of masks in draw_segmentation_masks (#8213)
[Docs] Various documentation improvements (#8341, #8332, #8198, #8318, #8202, #8246, #8208, #8231, #8300, #8197)
[code quality] Various code quality improvements (#8273, #8335, #8234, #8345, #8334, #8119, #8251, #8329, #8217, #8180, #8105, #8280, #8161, #8313)
Contributors
We're grateful for our community, which helps us improve torchvision by submitting issues and PRs, and providing feedback and suggestions. The following persons have contributed patches for this release:
Adam Dangoor Ahmad Sharif , ahmadsharif1, Andrey Talman, Anner, anthony-cabacungan, Arun Sathiya, Brizar, Brizar , cdzhan, Danylo Baibak, Huy Do, Ivan Magazinnik, JavaZero, Johan Edstedt, Li-Huai (Allan) Lin, Mantas, Mark Harfouche, Mithra, Nicolas Hug, Nicolas Hug , nihui, Philip Meier, Philip Meier , RazaProdigy , Richard Barnes , Riza Velioglu, sam-watts, Santiago Castro, Sergii Dymchenko, Syed Raza, talcs, Thien Tran, Thien Tran , TilmannR, Tobias Fischer, vfdev, vfdev , Zhu Lin Ch'ng, Zoltán Böszörményi.