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Motivation

I want to fix #11770 and allow more up-to-date versions of the albumentations library to be used in my transform pipeline.

Modification

This PR introduces very basic version parsing for albumentations in order to know whether the strict parameter for albu.Compose is supported, and passes strict=False if it is. If it isn't supported, fall back to not passing the strict parameter, which only works on albu <= 1.4.6.

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Does the modification introduce changes that break the backward-compatibility of the downstream repos?
If so, please describe how it breaks the compatibility and how the downstream projects should modify their code to keep compatibility with this PR.

No.

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2. The modification is covered by complete unit tests. If not, please add more unit test to ensure the correctness.
3. If the modification has potential influence on downstream projects, this PR should be tested with downstream projects, like MMDet or MMPreTrain.
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