With this release, we're bringing Stable Diffusion to multi-backend Keras, as well as a few other improvements
Introduction of SegFormer for semantic segmentation
Improvements to DeepLabV3Plus
Expansion of segmentation mask support in preprocessing layers
Migrating CenterPillar (3D OD) to multi-backend Keras
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors for your efforts on this release!
What's Changed
* Update README for Keras Core by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1936
* Remove unneeded environment variable by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1938
* Fix markdown formatting by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1937
* Port DeepLabV3 segmentation model from `keras_cv.models.legacy` to the `Task` API by soumik12345 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1831
* Add GPU testing for Jax+Torch by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1935
* Update quickstart for Keras Core by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1945
* Add Keras Core as an install dep by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1949
* Fix MBConv Layer for Quickstart by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1951
* Support segmentation mask in cutmix preprocessing layer by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1892
* Port DeepLabV3+ to Keras Core by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1943
* Readme patch by DavidLandup0 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1955
* Replacing `tf` with `np` in some files by ID6109 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1956
* Add segmentation mask support to Mosaic and JitteredResize by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1958
* Use p5 output instead of p4 for deeplab high-level features by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1961
* U-Net Research Paper Attached, Linter Issue Solved by NiharJani2002 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1959
* Replacing `tf` with `np` in some more files by ID6109 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1962
* Fit predict by Xrenya in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1963
* Fix linter error (bad PR merged in 1959 which broke linter) by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1966
* Refactor CSPDarknet for readability by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1921
* Migrate CenterPillar to the Backbone+Task API by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1953
* Update ImageNet training script to support Keras Core by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1976
* Waymo Dataset's Research Paper And Website Link Attached In load.py o… by NiharJani2002 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1975
* Fix broken StableDiffusion tests by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1980
* Add Augmenter utility by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1978
* Remove pinning of keras-core, set min TF vers to 2.13 by sampathweb in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1983
* A `README` for the preprocessing layers by ariG23498 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1979
* Add support of segmentation mask to fourier mix by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1991
* Testing bounding boxes in WithMixedPrecisionTest by jaygala223 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1860
* RandomGaussianBlur crashes when factor=0 by muxamilian in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1968
* Fix lint issue with Waymo data loader by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1993
* Add support of segmentation mask in Augmix layer by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1988
* Use Namex for API generation by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1995
* Fix Keras serialization naming collision by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2001
* Add bug template by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2016
* [RandomTranslation] Supporting Segmentation Masks by IMvision12 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2024
* Restructure retinanet steps to avoid modifying args by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2029
* Use non-ragged outputs in MultiClassNMS by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2030
* Use correct convention for static shape in point_cloud grouping by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2028
* Migrate Efficientnetlite to Backbone by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1877
* Migrate Efficientnetv1 to Backbone by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1716
* Issue_1957 Returning the Matplotlib plt object in the plot_bounding_box_gallery.py file by Zekrom-7780 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2000
* [EfficientNetV2 Backbone] Style fix by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2031
* Add pre-trained MobileNetV3Small preset by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2034
* [MobileNetV3Backbone] alias fix + doc fix in preset by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2035
* keras.layers.add->keras.layers.Add by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2033
* Added support of segmentation mask in RandomShear Layer by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2021
* [RandomZoom] Supporting Segmentation Masks by ariG23498 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2010
* Add support of segmentation mask in RandomCutout by cosmo3769 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2004
* Remove forward slashes from layer names for backbones by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2037
* [DeepVision Port] SegFormer and Mix-Transformers by DavidLandup0 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1946
* Fix test errors that were introduced by upgrading to Keras Core 0.1.5 by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2041
* Port CenterPillar to Keras Core by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2003
* Fix code example in RetinaNet class docstring by DiegoMont in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2045
* Re-write YOLOV8LabelEncoder from scratch by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2044
* Migrate StableDiffusion to Keras Core by jbischof in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1982
* Update centernet_label_encoder.py by qlzh727 in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2052
* Default to jit_compile=True for SD by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2054
* Update version to 0.6.2 by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2053
* Add the full Waymo 3D object detection example by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1977
* Fix loss computation for CenterPillar when batch_size > 1 by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2056
* Remove direct imports of tf.keras by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2048
* Add namex to release action by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2058
* Add keras-core as a dependency for release by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2059
* Install all deps for release cut. by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2060
* Re-include non-dependencies required for release by ianstenbit in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2062
New Contributors
* soumik12345 made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1831
* NiharJani2002 made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1959
* Xrenya made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1963
* sampathweb made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1983
* muxamilian made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/1968
* Zekrom-7780 made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2000
* DiegoMont made their first contribution in https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/pull/2045
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/keras-team/keras-cv/compare/v0.6.1...v0.6.2