# How to convert input numpy data to tensorflow tf.data to train model in tensorfow?

I am working on an image classification problem using TensorFlow. I have converted my input image dataset and label into NumPy data but it takes more time and more ram to load all the data into memory because I have 90K images. I would like to use TensorFlow data API using tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_director

Here's my current code to train NumPy data. I want to convert this code into tf.data(tf.keras.preprocessing.image_dataset_from_director) to train my huge dataset.

INIT_LR = 1e-4
EPOCHS = 20
BS = 32

# grab the list of images in our dataset directory, then initialize
# the list of data (i.e., images) and class images
imagePaths = list(paths.list_images(args["dataset"]))
data = []
labels = []

# loop over the image paths
for imagePath in imagePaths:
# extract the class label from the filename
label = imagePath.split(os.path.sep)[-2]

# load the input image (224x224) and preprocess it
image = img_to_array(image)
image = preprocess_input(image)

# update the data and labels lists, respectively
data.append(image)
labels.append(label)

# convert the data and labels to NumPy arrays
data = np.array(data, dtype="float32")
labels = np.array(labels)

# perform one-hot encoding on the labels
lb = LabelBinarizer()
labels = lb.fit_transform(labels)
labels = to_categorical(labels)

# partition the data into training and testing splits using 75% of
# the data for training and the remaining 25% for testing
(trainX, testX, trainY, testY) = train_test_split(data, labels,
test_size=0.20, stratify=labels, random_state=42)

# construct the training image generator for data augmentation
aug = ImageDataGenerator(
rotation_range=20,
zoom_range=0.15,
width_shift_range=0.2,
height_shift_range=0.2,
shear_range=0.15,
horizontal_flip=True,
fill_mode="nearest")

# load the MobileNetV2 network, ensuring the head FC layer sets are
# left off
baseModel = MobileNetV2(weights="imagenet", include_top=False,
input_tensor=Input(shape=(224, 224, 3)))

# construct the head of the model that will be placed on top of the
# the base model

# place the head FC model on top of the base model (this will become
# the actual model we will train)

# loop over all layers in the base model and freeze them so they will
# *not* be updated during the first training process
for layer in baseModel.layers:
layer.trainable = False

# compile our model
print("[INFO] compiling model...")
opt = Adam(lr=INIT_LR, decay=INIT_LR / EPOCHS)
model.compile(loss="binary_crossentropy", optimizer=opt,
metrics=["accuracy"])

# train the head of the network
H = model.fit(
aug.flow(trainX, trainY, batch_size=BS),
steps_per_epoch=len(trainX) // BS,
validation_data=(testX, testY),
validation_steps=len(testX) // BS,
epochs=EPOCHS)

# make predictions on the testing set
print("[INFO] evaluating network...")
predIdxs = model.predict(testX, batch_size=BS)

# for each image in the testing set we need to find the index of the
# label with corresponding largest predicted probability
predIdxs = np.argmax(predIdxs, axis=1)

# show a nicely formatted classification report
print(classification_report(testY.argmax(axis=1), predIdxs,
target_names=lb.classes_))

# serialize the model to disk
model.save(args["model"], save_format="h5")

• Don't read the data from the Directory, just pass the path of the parent directory to the function. Read here – 10xAI Jan 10 at 17:07

You could try using the flow_from_directory() method on your ImageDataGenerator class, which does the augmentation - only a small change is necessary:
H = model.fit(

If you start using a tf.data.Dataset directly, you will get more control over how the data is read from disk (caching, number of threads etc.), but you will lose the easy image augmentation you get with the ImageDataGenerator.
• The main problem is when i loop over the image paths to read all images it takes more time and more memory . for imagePath in imagePaths: # extract the class label from the filename label = imagePath.split(os.path.sep)[-2] # load the input image (224x224) and preprocess it image = load_img(imagePath, target_size=(224, 224)) image = img_to_array(image) image = preprocess_input(image) # update the data and labels lists, respectively data.append(image) labels.append(label) i want to remove this line. – Bala venkatesh Jan 11 at 3:21
• If you use the flow_from_directory method, you don't need to loop over the files at all, that happens automatically during training! You can set the target image size as a parameter to that method. I don't know what you do in YOUR process_input function - you might need to find another way to do that, e.g. wrapping the generator in your own generator (like this), or adding a Lambda layer before your model's first layer. – n1k31t4 Jan 11 at 9:53