py-R-FCN-multiGPU

R-FCN: Object Detection via Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks

py-R-FCN now supports both joint training and alternative optimization.

py-R-FCN-multiGPU supports multiGPU training of detectors like faster-rcnn and py-R-FCN

Soft-NMS repository gets better results on COCO, so please refer to it.

Soft-NMS+D-RFCN repository gets 40.9% mAP on COCO.

Disclaimer

The official R-FCN code (written in MATLAB) is available here.

py-R-FCN is modified from the offcial R-FCN implementation and py-faster-rcnn code, and the usage is quite similar to py-faster-rcnn.

py-R-FCN-multiGPU is a modified version of py-R-FCN. I have heavily reused it's README file as it contains most of the necessary information for running this branch.

There are slight differences between py-R-FCN and the official R-FCN implementation.

• py-R-FCN is ~10% slower at test-time, because some operations execute on the CPU in Python layers (e.g., 90ms / image vs. 99ms / image for ResNet-50)
• py-R-FCN supports both join training and alternative optimization of R-FCN.

Multi-GPU Training R-FCN

python ./tools/train_net_multi_gpu.py --gpu 0,1 --solver models/pascal_voc/ResNet-101/rfcn_end2end/solver_ohem.prototxt --weights data/imagenet_models/ResNet-101-model.caffemodel  --imdb  voc_2007_trainval+voc_2012_trainval --iters 110000 --cfg experiments/cfgs/rfcn_end2end_ohem.yml

or

./experiments/scripts/rfcn_end2end_ohem_multi_gpu.sh 0 pascal_voc

Multi-GPU Training Faster-RCNN

./experiments/scripts/faster_rcnn_end2end_multi_gpu.sh 0 VGG16 pascal_voc

This will use 2 GPUs to perform training. I have set iter_size to 1, so in this case, which is using 2 GPUs, results should be similar. Note that as more GPUs are added, batch size will increase, as it happens in the default multiGPU training in Caffe. The GPU_ID flag in the shell script is only used for testing and if you intent to use more GPUs, please edit it inside the script.

Some modification

The original py-faster-rcnn uses class-aware bounding box regression. However, R-FCN use class-agnostic bounding box regression to reduce model complexity. So I add a configuration AGNOSTIC into fast_rcnn/config.py, and the default value is False. You should set it to True both on train and test phase if you want to use class-agnostic training and test.

OHEM need all rois to select the hard examples, so I changed the sample strategy, set BATCH_SIZE: -1 for OHEM, otherwise OHEM would not take effect.

In conclusion:

AGNOSTIC: True is required for class-agnostic bounding box regression

BATCH_SIZE: -1 is required for OHEM

And I've already provided two configuration files for you(w/ OHEM and w/o OHEM) under experiments/cfgs folder, you could just m and needn't change anything.

Results on MS-COCO

If you want to use/train this model, please use the coco branch of this repository. The trained model can be found here. Use the config files from the coco branch for this model. Multi-scale training or testing was not done for obtaining this number. Image size was set to 800 and max size was 1200, RPN used 5 scales. This alone obtains 1.6% better than what was reported in the original paper. Training was done on 8 GPUs, with an iter_size of 2.

License

R-FCN is released under the MIT License (refer to the LICENSE file for details).

Citing R-FCN

If you find R-FCN useful in your research, please consider citing:

@article{dai16rfcn,
    Author = {Jifeng Dai, Yi Li, Kaiming He, Jian Sun},
    Title = {{R-FCN}: Object Detection via Region-based Fully Convolutional Networks},
    Journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06409},
    Year = {2016}
}

0. Important Please use the version of caffe uploaded with this repository. I have merged many files between the latest version of Caffe and py-R-FCN.

1. Requirements for Caffe and pycaffe (see: Caffe installation instructions)

Note: Caffe must be built with support for Python layers!

# In your Makefile.config, make sure to have this line uncommented
WITH_PYTHON_LAYER := 1
# Unrelatedly, it's also recommended that you use CUDNN
USE_CUDNN := 1
USE_NCCL := 1

2. Python packages you might not have: cython, python-opencv, easydict
3. Nvidia's NCCL library which is used for multi-GPU training https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl
4. [Optional] MATLAB is required for official PASCAL VOC evaluation only. The code now includes unofficial Python evaluation code.

Requirements: hardware

Any NVIDIA GPU with 6GB or larger memory is OK(4GB is enough for ResNet-50).

Installation

1. Clone the R-FCN repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/bharatsingh430/py-R-FCN-multiGPU/

(I only test on this commit, and I'm not sure whether this Caffe is still compatible with the prototxt in this repository in the future)

If you followed the above instruction, python code will add $RFCN_ROOT/caffe/python to PYTHONPATH automatically, otherwise you need to add $CAFFE_ROOT/python by your own, you could check $RFCN_ROOT/tools/_init_paths.py for more details.

3. Build the Cython modules

   cd $RFCN_ROOT/lib
   make
   

4. Build Caffe and pycaffe

   cd $RFCN_ROOT/caffe
   # Now follow the Caffe installation instructions here:
   #   http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/installation.html
   
   # If you're experienced with Caffe and have all of the requirements installed
   # and your Makefile.config in place, then simply do:
   make -j8 && make pycaffe
   

Demo

1. To use demo you need to download the pretrained R-FCN model, please download the model manually from OneDrive, and put it under $RFCN/data.

   Make sure it looks like this:

   $RFCN/data/rfcn_models/resnet50_rfcn_final.caffemodel
   $RFCN/data/rfcn_models/resnet101_rfcn_final.caffemodel
   

2. To run the demo

   $RFCN/tools/demo_rfcn.py
   

The demo performs detection using a ResNet-101 network trained for detection on PASCAL VOC 2007.

Preparation for Training & Testing

1. Download the training, validation, test data and VOCdevkit

   wget http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2007/VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
   wget http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2007/VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
   wget http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2007/VOCdevkit_08-Jun-2007.tar
   wget http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2012/VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
   

2. Extract all of these tars into one directory named VOCdevkit

   tar xvf VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
   tar xvf VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
   tar xvf VOCdevkit_08-Jun-2007.tar
   tar xvf VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
   

3. It should have this basic structure

   $VOCdevkit/                           # development kit
   $VOCdevkit/VOCcode/                   # VOC utility code
   $VOCdevkit/VOC2007                    # image sets, annotations, etc.
   $VOCdevkit/VOC2012                    # image sets, annotations, etc.
   # ... and several other directories ...
   

4. Since py-faster-rcnn does not support multiple training datasets, we need to merge VOC 2007 data and VOC 2012 data manually. Just make a new directory named VOC0712, put all subfolders except ImageSets in VOC2007 and VOC2012 into VOC0712(you'll merge some folders). I provide a merged-version ImageSets folder for you, please put it into VOCdevkit/VOC0712/.

5. Then the folder structure should look like this

	$VOCdevkit/                           # development kit
	$VOCdevkit/VOCcode/                   # VOC utility code
	$VOCdevkit/VOC2007                    # image sets, annotations, etc.
	$VOCdevkit/VOC2012                    # image sets, annotations, etc.
	$VOCdevkit/VOC0712                    # you just created this folder
	# ... and several other directories ...

4. Create symlinks for the PASCAL VOC dataset

   cd $RFCN_ROOT/data
   ln -s $VOCdevkit VOCdevkit0712
   

5. Please download ImageNet-pre-trained ResNet-50 and ResNet-100 model manually, and put them into $RFCN_ROOT/data/imagenet_models

6. Then everything is done, you could train your own model.

Usage

To train and test a R-FCN detector using the approximate joint training method, use experiments/scripts/rfcn_end2end.sh. Output is written underneath $RFCN_ROOT/output.

To train and test a R-FCN detector using the approximate joint training method with OHEM, use experiments/scripts/rfcn_end2end_ohem.sh. Output is written underneath $RFCN_ROOT/output.

To train and test a R-FCN detector using the alternative optimization method with OHEM, use experiments/scripts/rfcn_alt_opt_5stage_ohem.sh. Output is written underneath $RFCN_ROOT/output

cd $RFCN_ROOT
./experiments/scripts/rfcn_end2end[_ohem].sh [GPU_ID] [NET] [DATASET] [--set ...]
# GPU_ID is the GPU you want to train on
# NET in {ResNet-50, ResNet-101} is the network arch to use
# DATASET in {pascal_voc, coco} is the dataset to use(I only tested on pascal_voc)
# --set ... allows you to specify fast_rcnn.config options, e.g.
#   --set EXP_DIR seed_rng1701 RNG_SEED 1701

Trained R-FCN networks are saved under:

output/<experiment directory>/<dataset name>/

Test outputs are saved under:

output/<experiment directory>/<dataset name>/<network snapshot name>/

Misc

Tested on Red Hat with Titan X and Intel Xeon CPU E5-2683 v4 @ 2.10GHz