feat(visualization): replace cv2 GUI with Rerun (and solves ffmpeg versioning issues) (#903)

lerobot/common/policies/pi0/modeling_pi0.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Designed by Physical Intelligence. Ported from Jax by Hugging Face.
 
 Install pi0 extra dependencies:
 ```bash
-pip install --no-binary=av -e ".[pi0]"
+pip install -e ".[pi0]"
 ```
 
 Example of finetuning the pi0 pretrained model (`pi0_base` in `openpi`):

lerobot/common/robot_devices/control_configs.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class TeleoperateControlConfig(ControlConfig):
     fps: int | None = None
     teleop_time_s: float | None = None
     # Display all cameras on screen
-    display_cameras: bool = True
+    display_data: bool = False
 
 
 @ControlConfig.register_subclass("record")
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class RecordControlConfig(ControlConfig):
     # Not enough threads might cause low camera fps.
     num_image_writer_threads_per_camera: int = 4
     # Display all cameras on screen
-    display_cameras: bool = True
+    display_data: bool = False
     # Use vocal synthesis to read events.
     play_sounds: bool = True
     # Resume recording on an existing dataset.
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ class ReplayControlConfig(ControlConfig):
 @dataclass
 class RemoteRobotConfig(ControlConfig):
     log_interval: int = 100
+    # Display all cameras on screen
+    display_data: bool = False
+    # Rerun configuration for remote robot (https://ref.rerun.io/docs/python/0.22.1/common/initialization_functions/#rerun.connect_tcp)
+    viewer_ip: str | None = None
+    viewer_port: str | None = None
 
 
 @dataclass

lerobot/common/robot_devices/control_utils.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from contextlib import nullcontext
 from copy import copy
 from functools import cache
 
-import cv2
+import rerun as rr
 import torch
 from deepdiff import DeepDiff
 from termcolor import colored
@@ -174,13 +174,13 @@ def warmup_record(
     events,
     enable_teleoperation,
     warmup_time_s,
-    display_cameras,
+    display_data,
     fps,
 ):
     control_loop(
         robot=robot,
         control_time_s=warmup_time_s,
-        display_cameras=display_cameras,
+        display_data=display_data,
         events=events,
         fps=fps,
         teleoperate=enable_teleoperation,
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def record_episode(
     dataset,
     events,
     episode_time_s,
-    display_cameras,
+    display_data,
     policy,
     fps,
     single_task,
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def record_episode(
     control_loop(
         robot=robot,
         control_time_s=episode_time_s,
-        display_cameras=display_cameras,
+        display_data=display_data,
         dataset=dataset,
         events=events,
         policy=policy,
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def control_loop(
     robot,
     control_time_s=None,
     teleoperate=False,
-    display_cameras=False,
+    display_data=False,
     dataset: LeRobotDataset | None = None,
     events=None,
     policy: PreTrainedPolicy = None,
@@ -264,11 +264,15 @@ def control_loop(
             frame = {**observation, **action, "task": single_task}
             dataset.add_frame(frame)
 
-        if display_cameras and not is_headless():
+        # TODO(Steven): This should be more general (for RemoteRobot instead of checking the name, but anyways it will change soon)
+        if (display_data and not is_headless()) or (display_data and robot.robot_type.startswith("lekiwi")):
+            for k, v in action.items():
+                for i, vv in enumerate(v):
+                    rr.log(f"sent_{k}_{i}", rr.Scalar(vv.numpy()))
+
             image_keys = [key for key in observation if "image" in key]
             for key in image_keys:
-                cv2.imshow(key, cv2.cvtColor(observation[key].numpy(), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR))
-            cv2.waitKey(1)
+                rr.log(key, rr.Image(observation[key].numpy()), static=True)
 
         if fps is not None:
             dt_s = time.perf_counter() - start_loop_t
@@ -297,15 +301,11 @@ def reset_environment(robot, events, reset_time_s, fps):
     )
 
 
-def stop_recording(robot, listener, display_cameras):
+def stop_recording(robot, listener, display_data):
     robot.disconnect()
 
-    if not is_headless():
-        if listener is not None:
-            listener.stop()
-
-        if display_cameras:
-            cv2.destroyAllWindows()
+    if not is_headless() and listener is not None:
+        listener.stop()
 
 
 def sanity_check_dataset_name(repo_id, policy_cfg):