import tensorflow as tf
def triplet_loss(anchor, positive, negative, alpha):
"""Calculate the triplet loss according to the FaceNet paper
Args:
anchor: the embeddings for the anchor images.
positive: the embeddings for the positive images.
negative: the embeddings for the negative images.
Returns:
the triplet loss according to the FaceNet paper as a float tensor.
"""
with tf.variable_scope('triplet_loss'):
pos_dist = tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(tf.subtract(anchor, positive)), 1)
neg_dist = tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(tf.subtract(anchor, negative)), 1)
basic_loss = tf.add(tf.subtract(pos_dist,neg_dist), alpha)
loss = tf.reduce_mean(tf.maximum(basic_loss, 0.0), 0)
return loss