segcraft 0.1.4

Config-driven semantic segmentation framework

SegCraft

SegCraft is a config-first semantic segmentation toolkit for training, evaluating, and running image/video prediction from the same YAML setup.

Install

Use an isolated environment. Installing ML/video stacks into a global or Conda base Python can make pip upgrade unrelated packages and produce dependency conflicts.

python --version

If this opens the Microsoft Store or says Python was not found, install Python from https://python.org with python.exe on PATH, or run the commands from Anaconda Prompt.

python -m venv segcraft-env
.\segcraft-env\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

python -m pip install segcraft

For the browser UI from PyPI:

python -m pip install "segcraft[web]"
segcraft doctor
segcraft-web

Other extras:

python -m pip install "segcraft[torch]"                    # prediction/training with TorchVision
python -m pip install "segcraft[torch,smp]"                # segmentation-models-pytorch
python -m pip install "segcraft[torch,transformers]"       # Hugging Face segmentation models
python -m pip install "segcraft[torch,transformers,video]" # video files and YouTube helpers

From a checkout:

python -m pip install -e ".[web,dev]"

For NVIDIA GPUs, install the CUDA-enabled PyTorch wheel that matches your system from the PyTorch install page, then run:

segcraft doctor

segcraft doctor reports the Python executable, Torch version, CUDA build, CUDA availability, visible GPU names, and NumPy/OpenCV import checks. If it reports CUDA available: False, launch SegCraft from the environment where Torch can see CUDA, or keep runtime.device: auto so SegCraft falls back to CPU instead of failing.

CLI

segcraft validate
segcraft predict --preset cityscapes_video --local configs/local.yaml
segcraft train --preset fast_dev --local configs/local.yaml
segcraft evaluate --preset quality --local configs/local.yaml

configs/local.yaml is for machine-specific paths and is ignored by git. Start from configs/local.example.yaml.

Web App

segcraft-web

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000. The UI accepts either a video upload or a YouTube URL, lets you choose a preset or type a custom preset path/name, shows job progress, shows the active Torch/CUDA runtime, and exposes downloads for the generated outputs. YouTube downloads are cached under outputs/web by URL and format, and running jobs can be stopped from the UI.

Notebooks

• notebooks/01_quickstart.ipynb: video prediction demo.
• notebooks/02_config_and_api.ipynb: config and API basics.
• notebooks/03_web_app.ipynb: launching the optional FastAPI app.

Presets

SegCraft merges configs in this order:

1. configs/base.yaml
2. optional preset
3. optional local config

Preset names work in the CLI, Python API, and web app:

• fast_dev: tiny CPU training run.
• quality: longer training settings with scheduler and metrics.
• binary_quickstart: binary foreground/background setup.
• pascal_fast_video: faster TorchVision PASCAL/VOC video prediction.
• pascal_video: TorchVision PASCAL/VOC video prediction.
• pascal_quality_video: larger TorchVision PASCAL/VOC video prediction.
• cityscapes_video: SegFormer Cityscapes video prediction.
• cityscapes_quality_video: larger SegFormer Cityscapes video prediction.
• cpu_video_demo: short Cityscapes CPU demo settings.
• ade20k_video: SegFormer ADE20K video prediction.
• ade20k_quality_video: larger SegFormer ADE20K video prediction.
• smp_unet_resnet34: SMP Unet training setup.

task.num_classes controls trainable model heads. task.class_names only controls display names; if labels are missing or do not match the model, SegCraft falls back to class_<id> names during prediction.

For more pretrained models, use Hugging Face semantic-segmentation model IDs with model.backend: transformers, TorchVision segmentation model names with model.backend: torchvision, or SMP architectures/encoders with model.backend: smp:

• Hugging Face image segmentation models: https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-segmentation
• TorchVision semantic segmentation weights: https://docs.pytorch.org/vision/stable/models.html#semantic-segmentation
• Segmentation Models PyTorch encoders: https://smp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/encoders.html

Python API

from segcraft import load_config, load_config_object, list_available_presets
from segcraft.prediction import run_prediction

print(list_available_presets())

config = load_config("configs/base.yaml", preset_path="cityscapes_video")
typed = load_config_object("configs/base.yaml", preset_path="cityscapes_video")

events = []
summary = run_prediction(config, progress_callback=events.append)

Outputs

Video prediction writes:

• original.mp4
• overlay.mp4
• comparison.mp4
• summary.json

Image-folder prediction writes masks, overlays, an optional overlay video, and the same summary metadata.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[web,dev]"
pytest
python -m build
twine check dist/*

Publishing uses .github/workflows/release.yml with GitHub trusted publishing. Configure the PyPI/TestPyPI publisher for owner iodriller, repository SegCraft-Semantic-Segmentation, workflow release.yml, and environment pypi, then run the workflow manually for the target repository.