def _find_image_files(data_dir, labels_file):
  """Build a list of all images files and labels in the data set.

  Args:
    data_dir: string, path to the root directory of images.

      Assumes that the image data set resides in JPEG files located in
      the following directory structure.

        data_dir/dog/another-image.JPEG
        data_dir/dog/my-image.jpg

      where 'dog' is the label associated with these images.

    labels_file: string, path to the labels file.

      The list of valid labels are held in this file. Assumes that the file
      contains entries as such:
        dog
        cat
        flower
      where each line corresponds to a label. We map each label contained in
      the file to an integer starting with the integer 0 corresponding to the
      label contained in the first line.

  Returns:
    filenames: list of strings; each string is a path to an image file.
    texts: list of strings; each string is the class, e.g. 'dog'
    labels: list of integer; each integer identifies the ground truth.
  """
  print('Determining list of input files and labels from %s.' % data_dir)
  unique_labels = [l.strip() for l in tf.gfile.FastGFile(
      labels_file, 'r').readlines()]

  labels = []
  filenames = []
  texts = []

  # Leave label index 0 empty as a background class.
  label_index = 1

  # Construct the list of JPEG files and labels.
  for text in unique_labels:
    jpeg_file_path = '%s/%s/*' % (data_dir, text)
    matching_files = tf.gfile.Glob(jpeg_file_path)

    labels.extend([label_index] * len(matching_files))
    texts.extend([text] * len(matching_files))
    filenames.extend(matching_files)

    if not label_index % 100:
      print('Finished finding files in %d of %d classes.' % (
          label_index, len(labels)))
    label_index += 1

  # Shuffle the ordering of all image files in order to guarantee
  # random ordering of the images with respect to label in the
  # saved TFRecord files. Make the randomization repeatable.
  shuffled_index = list(range(len(filenames)))
  random.seed(12345)
  random.shuffle(shuffled_index)

  filenames = [filenames[i] for i in shuffled_index]
  texts = [texts[i] for i in shuffled_index]
  labels = [labels[i] for i in shuffled_index]

  print('Found %d JPEG files across %d labels inside %s.' %
        (len(filenames), len(unique_labels), data_dir))
  return filenames, texts, labels