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Implementation EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detection in PyTorch

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A [PyTorch](http://pytorch.org/) implementation of [EfficientDet](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09070) from the 2019 paper by Mingxing Tan Ruoming Pang Quoc V. Le Google Research, Brain Team. The official and original: comming soon. The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 1,443 stars and 304 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: coco, computer-vision, demo, detection, efficientdet-d0.

EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detection, in PyTorch

A PyTorch implementation of EfficientDet from the 2019 paper by Mingxing Tan Ruoming Pang Quoc V. Le
Google Research, Brain Team. The official and original: comming soon.

<img src= "./docs/arch.png"/>

Fun with Demo:

Shell
python demo.py --weight ./checkpoint_VOC_efficientdet-d1_97.pth --threshold 0.6 --iou_threshold 0.5 --cam --score
<p align="center"> <img src="docs/pytoan.gif"> </p>

Table of Contents

  • <a href='#recent-update'>Recent Update</a>
  • <a href='#benchmarking'>Benchmarking</a>
  • <a href='#installation'>Installation</a>
  • <a href='#installation'>Installation</a>
  • <a href='#prerequisites'>Prerequisites</a>
  • <a href='#datasets'>Datasets</a>
  • <a href='#training-efficientdet'>Train</a>
  • <a href='#evaluation'>Evaluate</a>
  • <a href='#performance'>Performance</a>
  • <a href='#demo'>Demo</a>
  • <a href='#todo'>Future Work</a>
  • <a href='#references'>Reference</a>

 
 
 
 

Recent Update

  • [06/01/2020] Support both DistributedDataParallel and DataParallel, change augmentation, eval_voc
  • [17/12/2019] Add Fast normalized fusion, Augmentation with Ratio, Change RetinaHead, Fix Support EfficientDet-D0->D7
  • [7/12/2019] Support EfficientDet-D0, EfficientDet-D1, EfficientDet-D2, EfficientDet-D3, EfficientDet-D4,... . Support change gradient accumulation steps, AdamW.

Benchmarking

We benchmark our code thoroughly on three datasets: pascal voc and coco, using family efficientnet different network architectures: EfficientDet-D0->7. Below are the results:

1). PASCAL VOC 2007 (Train/Test: 07trainval/07test, scale=600, ROI Align)

model  mAP
[EfficientDet-D0(with Weight)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r7MAyBfG5OK_9F_cU8yActUWxTHOuOpL/view?usp=sharing62.16

Installation

  • Install PyTorch by selecting your environment on the website and running the appropriate command.
  • Clone this repository and install package prerequisites below.
  • Then download the dataset by following the instructions below.
  • Note: For training, we currently support VOC and COCO, and aim to add ImageNet support soon.

prerequisites

  • Python 3.6+
  • PyTorch 1.3+
  • Torchvision 0.4.0+ (We need high version because Torchvision support nms now.)
  • requirements.txt

Datasets

To make things easy, we provide bash scripts to handle the dataset downloads and setup for you. We also provide simple dataset loaders that inherit torch.utils.data.Dataset, making them fully compatible with the torchvision.datasets API.

VOC Dataset

PASCAL VOC: Visual Object Classes

Download VOC2007 + VOC2012 trainval & test
Shell
# specify a directory for dataset to be downloaded into, else default is ~/data/ sh datasets/scripts/VOC2007.sh sh datasets/scripts/VOC2012.sh

COCO

Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

Download COCO 2017
Shell
# specify a directory for dataset to be downloaded into, else default is ~/data/ sh datasets/scripts/COCO2017.sh

Training EfficientDet

  • To train EfficientDet using the train script simply specify the parameters listed in train.py as a flag or manually change them.
Shell
python train.py --network effcientdet-d0 # Example
  • With VOC Dataset:
Shell
# DataParallel python train.py --dataset VOC --dataset_root /root/data/VOCdevkit/ --network effcientdet-d0 --batch_size 32 # DistributedDataParallel with backend nccl python train.py --dataset VOC --dataset_root /root/data/VOCdevkit/ --network effcientdet-d0 --batch_size 32 --multiprocessing-distributed
  • With COCO Dataset:
Shell
# DataParallel python train.py --dataset COCO --dataset_root ~/data/coco/ --network effcientdet-d0 --batch_size 32 # DistributedDataParallel with backend nccl python train.py --dataset COCO --dataset_root ~/data/coco/ --network effcientdet-d0 --batch_size 32 --multiprocessing-distributed

Evaluation

To evaluate a trained network:

  • With VOC Dataset:
    Shell
    python eval_voc.py --dataset_root ~/data/VOCdevkit --weight ./checkpoint_VOC_efficientdet-d0_261.pth
  • With COCO Dataset
    comming soon.

Demo

Shell
python demo.py --threshold 0.5 --iou_threshold 0.5 --score --weight checkpoint_VOC_efficientdet-d1_34.pth --file_name demo.png

Output:

<p align="center"> <img src= "./docs/demo.png"> </p>

Webcam Demo

You can use a webcam in a real-time demo by running:

Shell
python demo.py --threshold 0.5 --iou_threshold 0.5 --cam --score --weight checkpoint_VOC_efficientdet-d1_34.pth

Performance

<img src= "./docs/compare.png"/>

TODO

We have accumulated the following to-do list, which we hope to complete in the near future

  • Still to come:
    • EfficientDet-[D0-7]
    • GPU-Parallel
    • NMS
    • Soft-NMS
    • Pretrained model
    • Demo
    • Model zoo
    • TorchScript
    • Mobile
    • C++ Onnx

Authors

Note: Unfortunately, this is just a hobby of ours and not a full-time job, so we'll do our best to keep things up to date, but no guarantees. That being said, thanks to everyone for your continued help and feedback as it is really appreciated. We will try to address everything as soon as possible.

References

Citation

@article{efficientdetpytoan,
    Author = {Toan Dao Minh},
    Title = {A Pytorch Implementation of EfficientDet Object Detection},
    Journal = {github.com/toandaominh1997/EfficientDet.Pytorch},
    Year = {2019}
}

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