Ensure input type of normalize is float. (#3621)

test/test_transforms_tensor.py

@@ -446,12 +446,15 @@ class Tester(TransformsTester):
         )
 
     def test_normalize(self):
+        fn = T.Normalize((0.5, 0.5, 0.5), (0.5, 0.5, 0.5))
         tensor, _ = self._create_data(26, 34, device=self.device)
-        batch_tensors = torch.rand(4, 3, 44, 56, device=self.device)
 
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError, r"Input tensor should be a float tensor"):
+            fn(tensor)
+
+        batch_tensors = torch.rand(4, 3, 44, 56, device=self.device)
         tensor = tensor.to(dtype=torch.float32) / 255.0
         # test for class interface
-        fn = T.Normalize((0.5, 0.5, 0.5), (0.5, 0.5, 0.5))
         scripted_fn = torch.jit.script(fn)
 
         self._test_transform_vs_scripted(fn, scripted_fn, tensor)

torchvision/transforms/functional.py

@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ def to_pil_image(pic, mode=None):
 
 
 def normalize(tensor: Tensor, mean: List[float], std: List[float], inplace: bool = False) -> Tensor:
-    """Normalize a tensor image with mean and standard deviation.
+    """Normalize a float tensor image with mean and standard deviation.
     This transform does not support PIL Image.
 
     .. note::
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def normalize(tensor: Tensor, mean: List[float], std: List[float], inplace: bool
     See :class:`~torchvision.transforms.Normalize` for more details.
 
     Args:
-        tensor (Tensor): Tensor image of size (C, H, W) or (B, C, H, W) to be normalized.
+        tensor (Tensor): Float tensor image of size (C, H, W) or (B, C, H, W) to be normalized.
         mean (sequence): Sequence of means for each channel.
         std (sequence): Sequence of standard deviations for each channel.
         inplace(bool,optional): Bool to make this operation inplace.
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@ def normalize(tensor: Tensor, mean: List[float], std: List[float], inplace: bool
     if not isinstance(tensor, torch.Tensor):
         raise TypeError('Input tensor should be a torch tensor. Got {}.'.format(type(tensor)))
 
+    if not tensor.is_floating_point():
+        raise TypeError('Input tensor should be a float tensor. Got {}.'.format(tensor.dtype))
+
     if tensor.ndim < 3:
         raise ValueError('Expected tensor to be a tensor image of size (..., C, H, W). Got tensor.size() = '
                          '{}.'.format(tensor.size()))