Keras split train test set when using ImageDataGenerator

I have a single directory which contains sub-folders (according to labels) of images. I want to split this data into train and test set while using ImageDataGenerator in Keras. Although model.fit() in keras has argument validation_split for specifying the split, I could not find the same for model.fit_generator(). How to do it ?

train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255,
    shear_range=0.2,
    zoom_range=0.2,
    horizontal_flip=True)

train_generator = train_datagen.flow_from_directory(
    train_data_dir,
    target_size=(img_width, img_height),
    batch_size=32,
    class_mode='binary')

model.fit_generator(
    train_generator,
    samples_per_epoch=nb_train_samples,
    nb_epoch=nb_epoch,
    validation_data=??,
    nb_val_samples=nb_validation_samples)

I don't have separate directory for validation data, need to split it from the training data


Keras has now added Train / validation split from a single directory using ImageDataGenerator:

train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255,
    shear_range=0.2,
    zoom_range=0.2,
    horizontal_flip=True,
    validation_split=0.2) # set validation split

train_generator = train_datagen.flow_from_directory(
    train_data_dir,
    target_size=(img_height, img_width),
    batch_size=batch_size,
    class_mode='binary',
    subset='training') # set as training data

validation_generator = train_datagen.flow_from_directory(
    train_data_dir, # same directory as training data
    target_size=(img_height, img_width),
    batch_size=batch_size,
    class_mode='binary',
    subset='validation') # set as validation data

model.fit_generator(
    train_generator,
    steps_per_epoch = train_generator.samples // batch_size,
    validation_data = validation_generator, 
    validation_steps = validation_generator.samples // batch_size,
    epochs = nb_epochs)

https://keras.io/preprocessing/image/


For example, you have folder like this

full_dataset
|--horse (40 images)
|--donkey (30 images)
|--cow ((50 images)
|--zebra (70 images)

FIRST WAY

image_generator = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1/255, validation_split=0.2)    

train_dataset = image_generator.flow_from_directory(batch_size=32,
                                                 directory='full_dataset',
                                                 shuffle=True,
                                                 target_size=(280, 280), 
                                                 subset="training",
                                                 class_mode='categorical')

validation_dataset = image_generator.flow_from_directory(batch_size=32,
                                                 directory='full_dataset',
                                                 shuffle=True,
                                                 target_size=(280, 280), 
                                                 subset="validation",
                                                 class_mode='categorical')

SECOND WAY

import glob
horse = glob.glob('full_dataset/horse/*.*')
donkey = glob.glob('full_dataset/donkey/*.*')
cow = glob.glob('full_dataset/cow/*.*')
zebra = glob.glob('full_dataset/zebra/*.*')

data = []
labels = []

for i in horse:   
    image=tf.keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(i, color_mode='RGB', 
    target_size= (280,280))
    image=np.array(image)
    data.append(image)
    labels.append(0)
for i in donkey:   
    image=tf.keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(i, color_mode='RGB', 
    target_size= (280,280))
    image=np.array(image)
    data.append(image)
    labels.append(1)
for i in cow:   
    image=tf.keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(i, color_mode='RGB', 
    target_size= (280,280))
    image=np.array(image)
    data.append(image)
    labels.append(2)
for i in zebra:   
    image=tf.keras.preprocessing.image.load_img(i, color_mode='RGB', 
    target_size= (280,280))
    image=np.array(image)
    data.append(image)
    labels.append(3)

data = np.array(data)
labels = np.array(labels)

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
X_train, X_test, ytrain, ytest = train_test_split(data, labels, test_size=0.2,
                                                random_state=42)

Main drawback from First way, you can't use for display a picture. It will error if you write validation_dataset[1]. But it worked if I use first way : X_test[1]