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SimpleDet - A Simple and Versatile Framework for Object Detection and Instance Recognition

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Setup

All-in-one Script

We provide a setup script for install simpledet and preppare the coco dataset. If you use this script, you can skip to the Quick Start.

Install

We provide a conda installation here for Debian/Ubuntu system. To use a pre-built docker or singularity images, please refer to INSTALL.md for more information.

# install dependency
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git wget make python3-dev libglib2.0-0 libsm6 libxext6 libxrender-dev unzip

# create conda env
conda create -n simpledet python=3.7
conda activate simpledet

# fetch CUDA environment
conda install cudatoolkit=10.1

# install python dependency
pip install 'matplotlib<3.1' opencv-python pytz

# download and intall pre-built wheel for CUDA 10.1
pip install https://1dv.aflat.top/mxnet_cu101-1.6.0b20191214-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

# install pycocotools
pip install 'git+https://github.com/RogerChern/cocoapi.git#subdirectory=PythonAPI'

# install mxnext, a wrapper around MXNet symbolic API
pip install 'git+https://github.com/RogerChern/mxnext#egg=mxnext'

# get simpledet
git clone https://github.com/tusimple/simpledet
cd simpledet
make

# test simpledet installation
mkdir -p experiments/faster_r50v1_fpn_1x
python detection_infer_speed.py --config config/faster_r50v1_fpn_1x.py --shape 800 1333

If the last line execute successfully, the average running speed of Faster R-CNN R-50 FPN will be reported. And you have successfuly setup SimpleDet. Now you can head up to the next section to prepare your dataset.

Preparing Data

We provide a step by step preparation for the COCO dataset below.

cd simpledet

# make data dir
mkdir -p data/coco/images data/src

# skip this if you have the zip files
wget -c http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/train2017.zip -O data/src/train2017.zip
wget -c http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/val2017.zip -O data/src/val2017.zip
wget -c http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/test2017.zip -O data/src/test2017.zip
wget -c http://images.cocodataset.org/annotations/annotations_trainval2017.zip -O data/src/annotations_trainval2017.zip
wget -c http://images.cocodataset.org/annotations/image_info_test2017.zip -O data/src/image_info_test2017.zip

unzip data/src/train2017.zip -d data/coco/images
unzip data/src/val2017.zip -d data/coco/images
unzip data/src/test2017.zip -d data/coco/images
unzip data/src/annotations_trainval2017.zip -d data/coco
unzip data/src/image_info_test2017.zip -d data/coco

python utils/create_coco_roidb.py --dataset coco --dataset-split train2017
python utils/create_coco_roidb.py --dataset coco --dataset-split val2017
python utils/create_coco_roidb.py --dataset coco --dataset-split test-dev2017

For other datasets or your own data, please check DATASET.md for more details.

Quick Start

# train
python detection_train.py --config config/faster_r50v1_fpn_1x.py

# test
python detection_test.py --config config/faster_r50v1_fpn_1x.py

Finetune

Please check FINTUNE.md

Model Zoo

Please refer to MODEL_ZOO.md for available models

Distributed Training

Please refer to DISTRIBUTED.md

Project Organization

Code Structure

detection_train.py
detection_test.py
config/
    detection_config.py
core/
    detection_input.py
    detection_metric.py
    detection_module.py
models/
    FPN/
    tridentnet/
    maskrcnn/
    cascade_rcnn/
    retinanet/
mxnext/
symbol/
    builder.py

Config

Everything is configurable from the config file, all the changes should be out of source.

Experiments

One experiment is a directory in experiments folder with the same name as the config file.

E.g. r50_fixbn_1x.py is the name of a config file

config/
    r50_fixbn_1x.py
experiments/
    r50_fixbn_1x/
        checkpoint.params
        log.txt
        coco_minival2014_result.json

Models

The models directory contains SOTA models implemented in SimpletDet.

How is Faster R-CNN built

Faster R-CNN

Simpledet supports many popular detection methods and here we take Faster R-CNN as a typical example to show how a detector is built.

How to build a custom detector

The flexibility of simpledet framework makes it easy to build different detectors. We take TridentNet as an example to demonstrate how to build a custom detector simply based on the Faster R-CNN framework.

Contributors

Yuntao Chen, Chenxia Han, Yanghao Li, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang, Xiaotao Chen, Jingqiu Zhou, Zhen Wei, Zehui Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Bo Ke

License and Citation

This project is release under the Apache 2.0 license for non-commercial usage. For commercial usage, please contact us for another license.

If you find our project helpful, please consider cite our tech report.

@article{JMLR:v20:19-205,
  author  = {Yuntao Chen and Chenxia Han and Yanghao Li and Zehao Huang and Yi Jiang and Naiyan Wang and Zhaoxiang Zhang},
  title   = {SimpleDet: A Simple and Versatile Distributed Framework for Object Detection and Instance Recognition},
  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  year    = {2019},
  volume  = {20},
  number  = {156},
  pages   = {1-8},
  url     = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v20/19-205.html}
}