def save_images(images, filenames, output_dir):
  """Saves images to the output directory.

  Args:
    images: array with minibatch of images
    filenames: list of filenames without path
      If number of file names in this list less than number of images in
      the minibatch then only first len(filenames) images will be saved.
    output_dir: directory where to save images
  """
  for i, filename in enumerate(filenames):
    # Images for inception classifier are normalized to be in [-1, 1] interval,
    # so rescale them back to [0, 1].
    with tf.gfile.Open(os.path.join(output_dir, filename), 'w') as f:
      imsave(f, (images[i, :, :, :] + 1.0) * 0.5, format='png')