* Tweak command line scripts

enable fine grained control of command flags parsing
switch to attribute style of accessing config options

* Break down visualization function

decouple it from IO operations

* Move flag parsing out of `main()`

* Fix a bug where `None` is returned instead of `{}`

* Rename `save_xxx` to `output_xxx` in command line flags

could be confusing since checkpoint is stored in `save_dir`

* Support image file extensions in upper case