How to import image dataset from folder with tensorflowio

Hi I have image dataset from sharing folder. The dataset path like this: /media/sharing_folder/data and data folder has two subfolder which are "masked", "unmasked". I try to import data like this:

data = []

def create_data():
    for category in CATEGORIES:
        path =  os.path.join(DATADIR, category) #path to masked or unmasked dir
        class_num = CATEGORIES.index(category)
        for img in os.listdir(path):
            try:
                img_array = cv2.imread(os.path.join(path,img), cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
                new_array = cv2.resize(img_array, (IMG_SIZE, IMG_SIZE))
                data.append([new_array, class_num])
            except Exception as e:
                pass
            
create_data()

However, this import is very slowly run. I want to import data with tensorflowio. How can I import with tensorflowio?

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data = []

def create_data(): 
    for category in CATEGORIES: 
        path = os.path.join(DATADIR, category) #path to masked or unmasked dir 
        class_num = CATEGORIES.index(category) 
        for img in os.listdir(path): 
            try: img_array = cv2.imread(os.path.join(path,img),cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE) 
                new_array = cv2.resize(img_array, (IMG_SIZE, IMG_SIZE)) 
                data.append([new_array, class_num]) 
            except Exception as e: 
                pass

create_data()

Now to answer your question I recommend you use the keras ImageDataGenerator. Documentation is here.

split=.2 # set percentage of images to use for validation
height=254 # set to desired image height
width =254 # set to desired image width
batch_size=32 # set to desired batch size
seed = 123  # set to an arbitrary value
data_dir=r'c: /media/sharing_folder/data'
img_gen=tf.keras.preprocessing.image.ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1/255,validation_split=split) 
train_gen=img_gen.flow_from_directory(directory= data_dir,target_size=(height,width),
          color_mode='grayscale', class_mode=categorical, batch_size=batch_size,
          seed=seed, shuffle=True, subset='training)
valid_gen=img_gen.flow_from_directory(directory= data_dir,target_size=(height,width),
          color_mode='grayscale', class_mode=categorical, batch_size=batch_size,
          seed=seed, shuffle=False, subset='validation') 

then compile your model and use loss as categorical_crossentropy. Then use model.fit to train your model using the generators defined above With respect to validation it is best to set shuffle=False in the valid_gen so validation images are provided in the same order for each epoch.