Accimage vs. Pillow-SIMD

tushar · April 24, 2018, 10:05pm

Hi,

I see that torchvision supports 3 backends: Pillow, Pillow-SIMD and accimage. The benchmarks tell me that Pillow-SIMD is a lot faster than Pillow, but I can’t find any sources comparing accimage and Pillow-SIMD. I have both installed, which should I use?

Thanks!

gabrieldernbach · December 16, 2020, 7:35pm

For installation of pillow-simd please follow their github installation section.
https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd

At the current state it is nicely summarized by this gist

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/ciscorn/31c7e29e8a53a8b546cd69aef520450a

install_pillow_simd.sh

#!/bin/env bash

pip3 uninstall pillow

apt install \
    libjpeg-turbo8-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    libtiff5-dev \
    liblcms2-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev \

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Note that Pillow-SIMD is a drop in replacement and you will have to remove Pillow before.

After installation there should be a new suffix to
$ python -c "from PIL import Image; print(Image.__version__)"