def METHOD_NAME():
    args = parse_args()
    assert args.out or args.eval or args.format_only or args.show \
        or args.show_dir, \
        ('Please specify at least one operation (save/eval/format/show the '
         'results / save the results) with the argument "--out", "--eval"'
         ', "--format-only", "--show" or "--show-dir"')
    if args.eval and args.format_only:
        raise ValueError('--eval and --format_only cannot be both specified')
    if args.out is not None and not args.out.endswith(('.pkl', '.pickle')):
        raise ValueError('The output file must be a pkl file.')
    cfg = mmcv.Config.fromfile(args.config)
    if args.options is not None:
        cfg.merge_from_dict(args.options)
    # set cudnn_benchmark
    if cfg.get('cudnn_benchmark', False):
        torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True
    if args.aug_test:
        # hard code index
        cfg.data.test.pipeline[1].img_ratios = [
            0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75
        ]
        cfg.data.test.pipeline[1].flip = True
    cfg.model.pretrained = None
    cfg.data.test.test_mode = True
    # init distributed env first, since logger depends on the dist info.
    if args.launcher == 'none':
        distributed = False
    else:
        distributed = True
        init_dist(args.launcher, **cfg.dist_params)
    # build the dataloader
    # TODO: support multiple images per gpu (only minor changes are needed)
    dataset = build_dataset(cfg.data.test)
    data_loader = build_dataloader(
        dataset,
        samples_per_gpu=1,
        workers_per_gpu=cfg.data.workers_per_gpu,
        dist=distributed,
        shuffle=False)
    # build the model and load checkpoint
    cfg.model.train_cfg = None
    model = build_segmentor(cfg.model, test_cfg=cfg.get('test_cfg'))
    checkpoint = load_checkpoint(model, args.checkpoint, map_location='cpu')
    model.CLASSES = checkpoint['meta']['CLASSES']
    model.PALETTE = checkpoint['meta']['PALETTE']
    efficient_test = False
    if args.eval_options is not None:
        efficient_test = args.eval_options.get('efficient_test', False)
    if not distributed:
        model = MMDataParallel(model, device_ids=[0])
        outputs = single_gpu_test(model, data_loader, args.show, args.show_dir,
                                  efficient_test)
    else:
        model = MMDistributedDataParallel(
            model.cuda(),
            device_ids=[torch.cuda.current_device()],
            broadcast_buffers=False)
        outputs = multi_gpu_test(model, data_loader, args.tmpdir,
                                 args.gpu_collect, efficient_test)
    rank, _ = get_dist_info()
    if rank == 0:
        if args.out:
            print(f'\nwriting results to {args.out}')
            mmcv.dump(outputs, args.out)
        kwargs = {} if args.eval_options is None else args.eval_options
        if args.format_only:
            dataset.format_results(outputs, **kwargs)
        if args.eval:
            dataset.evaluate(outputs, args.eval, **kwargs)