tensorflow: how to rotate an image for data augmentation?

Question

In tensorflow, I would like to rotate an image from a random angle, for data augmentation. But I don\'t find this transformation in the tf.image module.

Answer 1

Update: see @astromme's answer below. Tensorflow now supports rotating images natively.

What you can do while there is no native method in tensorflow is something like this:

from PIL import Image
sess = tf.InteractiveSession()

# Pass image tensor object to a PIL image
image = Image.fromarray(image.eval())

# Use PIL or other library of the sort to rotate
rotated = Image.Image.rotate(image, degrees)

# Convert rotated image back to tensor
rotated_tensor = tf.convert_to_tensor(np.array(rotated))