Trivial example for Mixed-Gradient-Error and Mean-Gradient-Error

MeanGradientError.py

import tensorflow as tf

def MeanGradientError(outputs, targets, weight):
    filter_x = tf.tile(tf.expand_dims(tf.constant([[-1, -2, -1], [0, 0, 0], [1, 2, 1]], dtype = outputs.dtype), axis = -1), [1, 1, outputs.shape[-1])
    filter_x = tf.tile(tf.expand_dims(filter_x, axis = -1), [1, 1, 1, outputs.shape[-1]])
    filter_y = tf.tile(tf.expand_dims(tf.constant([[-1, 0, 1], [-2, 0, 2], [-1, 0, 1]], dtype = outputs.dtype), axis = -1), [1, 1, targets.shape[-1]])
    filter_y = tf.tile(tf.expand_dims(filter_y, axis = -1), [1, 1, 1, targets.shape[-1]])

    # output gradient
    output_gradient_x = tf.math.square(tf.nn.conv2d(outputs, filter_x, strides = 1, padding = 'SAME'))
    output_gradient_y = tf.math.square(tf.nn.conv2d(outputs, filter_y, strides = 1, padding = 'SAME'))

    #target gradient
    target_gradient_x = tf.math.square(tf.nn.conv2d(targets, filter_x, strides = 1, padding = 'SAME'))
    target_gradient_y = tf.math.square(tf.nn.conv2d(targets, filter_y, strides = 1, padding = 'SAME'))

    # square
    output_gradients = tf.math.sqrt(tf.math.add(output_gradient_x, output_gradient_y))
    target_gradients = tf.math.sqrt(tf.math.add(target_gradient_x, target_gradient_y))

    # compute mean gradient error
    shape = output_gradients.shape[1:3]
    mge = tf.math.reduce_sum(tf.math.squared_difference(output_gradients, target_gradients) / (shape[0] * shape[1]))

    return mge * weight
    
x = tf.random.normal(shape = (224, 224, 3)
y = tf.random.normal(shape = (224, 224, 3)

gradient_loss = MeanGradientError(x, y, weight = 0.1)

I guess there is a small problem in your code at line 4, the sobel filter should be [[-1, -2, -1], [0, 0, 0], [1, 2, 1]], but [[-1, -2, -2], [0, 0, 0], [1, 2, 1]] in your code

Just letting people know: This loss tends to cause NAN losses in starting periods of training. It behaves once you have a epoch or two but I wouldn't recommend risking it. Theres hould be a better implementation out somewhere... except that the author's github is no longer visible. This is with the sobel filter fix of course.