Using the FiftyOne App¶

The FiftyOne App is a powerful graphical user interface that enables you to visualize, browse, and interact directly with your FiftyOne Datasets.

Sessions¶

The basic FiftyOne workflow is to open a Python shell and load a Dataset. From there you can launch the FiftyOne App and interact with it programmatically via a session.

Creating a session¶

You can launch an instance of the App by calling fo.launch_app(). This method returns a Session instance, which you can subsequently use to interact programmatically with the App!

import fiftyone as fo

session = fo.launch_app()

Note

fo.launch_app() will launch the App asynchronously and return control to your Python process. The App will then remain open until you close it or the process exits.

If you are using the App in a non-interactive script, you should use session.wait() to block execution until you close it manually:

# Launch the App
session = fo.launch_app(...)
# (Perform any additional operations here)

# Blocks execution until the App is closed
session.wait()

Updating a session’s dataset¶

Sessions can be updated to show a new Dataset by updating the Session.dataset property of the session object:

import fiftyone.zoo as foz

dataset = foz.load_zoo_dataset("cifar10")
session.dataset = dataset

Updating a session’s view¶

You can also show a specific DatasetView into the current dataset in the App by updating the Session.view property of the session.

For example, the command below loads a DatasetView in the App that shows the first 10 samples in the dataset sorted alphabetically by ground truth label:

session.view = dataset.sort_by("ground_truth.label")[:10]

Remote sessions¶

If your data is stored on a remote machine, you can forward a session from the remote machine to the FiftyOne App on your local machine and seemlessly browse your remote dataset.

Remote machine¶

On the remote machine, load a Dataset and launch a session using launch_app() with the remote=True argument. This will open the session on port 5151 on your machine:

# On remote machine

import fiftyone as fo

dataset = fo.Dataset(name="my_dataset")
session = fo.launch_app(dataset=dataset, remote=True)

You can manipulate the session object as usual to programmatically interact with the remote App instance that you’ll connect to next.

Local machine¶

On the local machine, you can launch an App instance connected to a remote session via the CLI. Alternatively, you can manually setup port forwarding on your local machine via ssh and connect to the App via Python.

On the local machine, you can use the CLI to automatically configure port forwarding and open the App.

In a local terminal, run the command:

# On local machine
fiftyone app connect --destination username@remote_machine_ip --port 5151

Open two terminal windows on the local machine. In order to forward the port 5151 from the remote machine to the local machine, run the following command in one terminal and leave the process running:

# On local machine
ssh -N -L 5151:127.0.0.1:5151 username@remote_machine_ip

Port 5151 is now being forwarded from the remote machine to port 5151 of the local machine.

In the other terminal, launch the FiftyOne App locally by starting Python and running the following commands:

# On local machine
import fiftyone.core.session as fos

fos.launch_app()

Using the FiftyOne App¶

The App exposes powerful dataset exploration functionality directly in its user interface.

Display options¶

Any labels, tags, and scalar fields can be overlaid on the samples in the App by toggling the corresponding display options on the lefthand side of the App.

Viewing a sample¶

Double-click a sample to open an expanded view of the sample. This modal also contains information about the fields of the Sample and allows you to access the raw JSON description of the sample.

Using the view bar¶

The view bar makes all of the powerful searching, sorting, and filtering operations provided by DatasetViews available directly in the App. Any changes to the current view that you make in the view bar are reflected in the DatasetView exposed by the Session.view property of the Session object associated with the App.

Tabs¶

The Samples, Labels, Tags, and Scalars tabs in the App let you visualize different aspects and statistics about your dataset. Samples is the default tab, which lets you visualize and select your image samples. The Labels tab shows a distribution of labels of the currently loaded Dataset or DatasetView. Any tags that were added and their corresponding counts will show up under the Tags tab. Scalar fields, for example if you computed uniqueness on your dataset, will be displayed under the Scalars tab.

Accessing selected samples¶

As previously explained, the Session object created when you launch the App lets you interact with the App from your Python process.

One common workflow is to select samples visually in the App and then access the data for the selected samples in Python. To perform this workflow, first select some samples in the App:

Next, access the Session.selected property of your session to retrieve the IDs of the currently selected samples in the App:

# Print the IDs of the currently selected samples
print(session.selected)

# Create a view containing only the selected samples
selected_view = dataset.select(session.selected)

['5ef0eef405059ebb0ddfa6cc',
 '5ef0eef405059ebb0ddfa7c4',
 '5ef0eef405059ebb0ddfa86e',
 '5ef0eef405059ebb0ddfa93c']