📦 AlbumentationsX 2.0.17

🚀 Major Feature: Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB) Support

This release introduces native Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) support across a wide range of transforms.

AlbumentationsX now supports both:

HBB — Horizontal (axis-aligned) bounding boxes
OBB — Oriented (rotated) bounding boxes

This makes augmentation pipelines consistent for rotated object detection use cases such as aerial imagery, scene text detection, industrial inspection, and autonomous driving.

✔️ Transforms with OBB Support

All links point to the interactive transform explorer:

https://explore.albumentations.ai/transform/<TransformName>

🧭 New Bounding Box Format

`cxcywh` (unnormalized)

Added support for: cxcywh

This format:

Matches YOLO layout
Uses pixel coordinates
Is not normalized

Useful for center-based detection workflows.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

In BboxParams:

Old name	New name
`format`	`coord_format`
`clip`	`clip_bboxes_on_input`

Please update your pipelines accordingly.

⚡ Performance Improvements (Video)

Speedups when applying transforms to video:

MedianBlur
ZoomBlur
Sharpen
Solarize
UnsharpMask

These optimizations improve throughput for multi-frame augmentation.

🙌 Contributors

OBB support & cxcywh — @ternaus
Video performance — @Dipet

💰 Licensing (Important)

AlbumentationsX is distributed under a dual-license model:

AGPL — for open-source, academic, and non-commercial use
Commercial license required — for proprietary, closed-source, or commercial products

If AlbumentationsX is used in a commercial product, including internal training or inference pipelines, you must obtain a commercial license unless you fully comply with AGPL requirements.

👉 Commercial licensing details:
https://albumentations.ai/pricing

❤️ Supporting the Project

AlbumentationsX is widely used, but maintained by a small core team. If AlbumentationsX is useful to you, here are ways you can help:

💙 GitHub Sponsors

Support maintenance, CI, reviews, and features with monthly contributions:

👉 https://github.com/sponsors/albumentations-team

🏢 Commercial License

If AlbumentationsX is part of a proprietary or revenue-generating product, a commercial license:

Keeps you legally safe
Directly funds ongoing development (including features like OBB support)

Thank you to everyone who uses, reports issues, sponsors, or supports AlbumentationsX. This release exists because of that support.