---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - image-classification
  - rotation-prediction
  - resnet
  - pytorch
  - vision
datasets:
  - ILSVRC/imagenet-1k
pipeline_tag: image-classification
library_name: transformers
---

# 🔄 GyroScope — Image Rotation Prediction

**GyroScope** is a ResNet-18 trained **from scratch** to detect whether an image is rotated by **0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°** — and correct it automatically.

> Is that photo upside down? Let GyroScope figure it out.

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## 🎯 Task

Given any image, GyroScope classifies its orientation into one of **4 classes**:

| Label | Meaning | Correction |
|-------|---------|------------|
| 0 | 0° — upright ✅ | None |
| 1 | 90° CCW | Rotate 270° CCW |
| 2 | 180° — upside down | Rotate 180° |
| 3 | 270° CCW (= 90° CW) | Rotate 90° CCW |

**Correction formula:** `correction = (360 − detected_angle) % 360`

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## 📊 Benchmarks

Trained on **50,000 images** from [ImageNet-1k](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ILSVRC/imagenet-1k) × 4 rotations = **200k training samples**.  
Validated on **5,000 images** × 4 rotations = **20k validation samples**.

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| **Overall Val Accuracy** | **79.81%%** |
| Per-class: 0° (upright) | 79.8% |
| Per-class: 90° CCW | 80.1% |
| Per-class: 180° | 79.4% |
| Per-class: 270° CCW | 79.8% |
| Training Epochs | 12 |
| Training Time | ~4h (Kaggle T4 GPU) |

### Training Curve

| Epoch | Train Acc | Val Acc |
|-------|----------|---------|
| 1 | 41.4% | 43.2% |
| 2 | 52.0% | 46.9% |
| 3 | 59.4% | 62.8% |
| 4 | 64.1% | 66.0% |
| 5 | 67.8% | 69.48% |
| 6 | 70.6% | 72.22% |
| 7 | 73.3% | 74.25% |
| 8 | 75.6% | 76.49% |
| 9 | 77.5% | 77.47% |
| 10 | 79.1% | 79.47% |
| 11 | 80.3% | 79.78% |
| 12 | 80.9% | 79.81% |

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## 🏗️ Architecture

| Detail | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Base | ResNet-18 (from scratch, **no pretrained weights**) |
| Parameters | 11.2M |
| Input | 224 × 224 RGB |
| Output | 4 classes (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°) |
| Framework | 🤗 Hugging Face Transformers (`ResNetForImageClassification`) |

### Training Details

- **Optimizer:** AdamW (lr=1e-3, weight_decay=0.05)
- **Scheduler:** Cosine annealing with 1-epoch linear warmup
- **Loss:** CrossEntropy with label smoothing (0.1)
- **Augmentations:** RandomCrop, ColorJitter, RandomGrayscale, RandomErasing
- **⚠️ No flips** — horizontal/vertical flips would corrupt rotation labels
- **Mixed precision:** FP16 via `torch.cuda.amp`

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## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
pip install transformers torch torchvision pillow requests
```

### Inference — Single Image from URL
```bash
python3 use_with_UI.py
```

--> Download `use_with_UI.py` first 😄

## 💡 Example

Input (rotated 180°):

![cat image, rotated to the left by 90°](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/697f2832c2c5e4daa93cece7/My19YzxFOYQkftVHw1rPr.png)

GyroScope Output:
**📐 Recognized: 90° | Correction: 270°**
**📊 Probs: {'0°': '0.0257', '90°': '0.8706', '180°': '0.0735', '270°': '0.0300'}**
<br>
Corrected:

![cat image, now correctly rotated](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/697f2832c2c5e4daa93cece7/QhpbxPuwhyMj19N7v34iZ.png)

*Original Image Source: [Link to Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/de-de/foto/ruhiger-schlaf-einer-getigerten-hauskatze-auf-einem-sofa-32441547/)*

## ⚠️ Limitations

- Rotationally symmetric images (balls, textures, patterns) are inherently ambiguous — no model can reliably classify these.
- Trained on natural images (ImageNet). Performance may degrade on:
- Documents / text-heavy images
- Medical imaging
- Satellite / aerial imagery
- Abstract art


Only handles 90° increments — arbitrary angles (e.g. 45° or 135°) are **not supported**!
Trained from scratch on 50k images — a pretrained backbone would likely yield higher accuracy (Finetuning).


## 📝 Use Cases

- 📸 Photo management — auto-correct phone/camera orientation
- 🗂️ Data preprocessing — fix rotated images in scraped datasets
- 🤖 ML pipelines — orientation normalization before feeding to downstream models
- 🖼️ Digital archives — batch-correct scanned/uploaded images

> Yesterday, I was sorting photos and like every photo was rotated wrong! This inspired me to make this tool 😂

## 💻 Training code

The full training code can be found in `train.py`. Have fun 😊

## 📜 License

Apache 2.0

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Dataset: ILSVRC/ImageNet-1k
- Architecture: Microsoft ResNet via 🤗 Transformers
- Trained on Kaggle (Tesla T4 GPU)

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>  GyroScope — because every image deserves to stand upright.