Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS)

Module Interface

class torchmetrics.image.lpip.LearnedPerceptualImagePatchSimilarity(net_type='alex', reduction='mean', normalize=False, **kwargs)

The Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS_) is used to judge the perceptual similarity between two images. LPIPS essentially computes the similarity between the activations of two image patches for some pre-defined network. This measure has been shown to match human perception well. A low LPIPS score means that image patches are perceptual similar.

Both input image patches are expected to have shape [N, 3, H, W]. The minimum size of H, W depends on the chosen backbone (see net_type arg).

Note

using this metrics requires you to have lpips package installed. Either install as pip install torchmetrics[image] or pip install lpips

Note

this metric is not scriptable when using torch<1.8. Please update your pytorch installation if this is a issue.

Parameters

• net_type (str) – str indicating backbone network type to use. Choose between ‘alex’, ‘vgg’ or ‘squeeze’

• reduction (Literal[‘sum’, ‘mean’]) – str indicating how to reduce over the batch dimension. Choose between ‘sum’ or ‘mean’.

• normalize (bool) – by default this is False meaning that the input is expected to be in the [-1,1] range. If set to True will instead expect input to be in the [0,1] range.

• kwargs (Any) – Additional keyword arguments, see Advanced metric settings for more info.

Raises

• ModuleNotFoundError – If lpips package is not installed

• ValueError – If net_type is not one of "vgg", "alex" or "squeeze"

• ValueError – If reduction is not one of "mean" or "sum"

Example

>>> import torch
>>> _ = torch.manual_seed(123)
>>> from torchmetrics.image.lpip import LearnedPerceptualImagePatchSimilarity
>>> lpips = LearnedPerceptualImagePatchSimilarity(net_type='vgg')
>>> # LPIPS needs the images to be in the [-1, 1] range.
>>> img1 = (torch.rand(10, 3, 100, 100) * 2) - 1
>>> img2 = (torch.rand(10, 3, 100, 100) * 2) - 1
>>> lpips(img1, img2)
tensor(0.3493, grad_fn=<SqueezeBackward0>)

Initializes internal Module state, shared by both nn.Module and ScriptModule.

compute()

Compute final perceptual similarity metric.

Return type

Tensor

update(img1, img2)

Update internal states with lpips score.

Parameters

• img1 (Tensor) – tensor with images of shape [N, 3, H, W]

• img2 (Tensor) – tensor with images of shape [N, 3, H, W]

Return type

None