* **Linux GCC>=4.9 or Windows MS Visual Studio 2015 (v140)**: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532606&clcid=0x409 (or offline [ISO image](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615448&clcid=0x409))
*`darknet_demo_voc.cmd` - initialization with 194 MB VOC-model yolo-voc.weights & yolo-voc.cfg and play your video file which you must rename to: test.mp4
*`darknet_demo_store.cmd` - initialization with 194 MB VOC-model yolo-voc.weights & yolo-voc.cfg and play your video file which you must rename to: test.mp4, and store result to: res.avi
*`darknet_net_cam_voc.cmd` - initialization with 194 MB VOC-model, play video from network video-camera mjpeg-stream (also from you phone)
*`darknet_web_cam_voc.cmd` - initialization with 194 MB VOC-model, play video from Web-Camera number #0
*`darknet_coco_9000_demo.cmd` - initialization with 186 MB Yolo9000 COCO-model, and show detection on the video (if it is present): street4k.mp4, and store result to: res.avi
* To process a list of images `image_list.txt` and save results of detection to `result.txt` use:
`darknet.exe detector test data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights < image_list.txt > result.txt`
You can comment this line so that each image does not require pressing the button ESC: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/6ccb41808caf753feea58ca9df79d6367dedc434/src/detector.c#L509
Before make, you can set such options in the `Makefile`: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/9c1b9a2cf6363546c152251be578a21f3c3caec6/Makefile#L1)
*`LIBSO=1` to build a library `darknet.so` and binary runable file `uselib` that uses this library. Or you can try to run so `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./uselib test.mp4` How to use this SO-library from your own code - you can look at C++ example: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/src/yolo_console_dll.cpp
1. If you have **MSVS 2015, CUDA 9.1 and OpenCV 3.0** (with paths: `C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\include`&`C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib`), then start MSVS, open `build\darknet\darknet.sln`, set **x64** and **Release**, and do the: Build -> Build darknet
2. If you have other version of **CUDA (not 9.1)** then open `build\darknet\darknet.vcxproj` by using Notepad, find 2 places with "CUDA 9.1" and change it to your CUDA-version, then do step 1
3. If you **don't have GPU**, but have **MSVS 2015 and OpenCV 3.0** (with paths: `C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\include`&`C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib`), then start MSVS, open `build\darknet\darknet_no_gpu.sln`, set **x64** and **Release**, and do the: Build -> Build darknet_no_gpu
* add Windows system variable `cudnn` with path to CUDNN: https://hsto.org/files/a49/3dc/fc4/a493dcfc4bd34a1295fd15e0e2e01f26.jpg
* open `\darknet.sln` -> (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, and add at the beginning of line: `CUDNN;`
- (right click on project) -> Build dependecies -> Build Customizations -> set check on CUDA 9.1 or what version you have - for example as here: http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/VS2013-R-5.jpg
*`cusolver64_91.dll, curand64_91.dll, cudart64_91.dll, cublas64_91.dll` - 91 for CUDA 9.1 or your version, from C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v9.1\bin
1. Download pre-trained weights for the convolutional layers (76 MB): http://pjreddie.com/media/files/darknet19_448.conv.23 and put to the directory `build\darknet\x64`
6. Set `batch=64` and `subdivisions=8` in the file `yolo-voc.2.0.cfg`: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/build/darknet/x64/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L2)
7. Start training by using `train_voc.cmd` or by using the command line: `darknet.exe detector train data/voc.data yolo-voc.2.0.cfg darknet19_448.conv.23` (**Note:** If you are using CPU, try `darknet_no_gpu.exe` instead of `darknet.exe`.)
2. Then stop and by using partially-trained model `/backup/yolo-voc_1000.weights` run training with multigpu (up to 4 GPUs): `darknet.exe detector train data/voc.data yolo-voc.2.0.cfg /backup/yolo-voc_1000.weights -gpus 0,1,2,3`
* change line #237 from [`filters=125`](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/cfg/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L224) to: filters=(classes + 5)x5, so if `classes=2` then should be `filters=35`. Or if you use `classes=1` then write `filters=30`, **do not write in the cfg-file: filters=(classes + 5)x5**.
5. Create `.txt`-file for each `.jpg`-image-file - in the same directory and with the same name, but with `.txt`-extension, and put to file: object number and object coordinates on this image, for each object in new line: `<object-class> <x> <y> <width> <height>`
* atention: `<x> <y>` - are center of rectangle (are not top-left corner)
For example for `img1.jpg` you should create `img1.txt` containing:
```
1 0.716797 0.395833 0.216406 0.147222
0 0.687109 0.379167 0.255469 0.158333
1 0.420312 0.395833 0.140625 0.166667
```
6. Create file `train.txt` in directory `build\darknet\x64\data\`, with filenames of your images, each filename in new line, with path relative to `darknet.exe`, for example containing:
```
data/obj/img1.jpg
data/obj/img2.jpg
data/obj/img3.jpg
```
7. Download pre-trained weights for the convolutional layers (76 MB): http://pjreddie.com/media/files/darknet19_448.conv.23 and put to the directory `build\darknet\x64`
8. Start training by using the command line: `darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg darknet19_448.conv.23`
* After each 1000 iterations you can stop and later start training from this point. For example, after 2000 iterations you can stop training, and later just copy `yolo-obj_2000.weights` from `build\darknet\x64\backup\` to `build\darknet\x64\` and start training using: `darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg yolo-obj_2000.weights`
For training Yolo based on other models ([DenseNet201-Yolo](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/build/darknet/x64/densenet201_yolo.cfg) or [ResNet50-Yolo](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/build/darknet/x64/resnet50_yolo.cfg)), you can download and get pre-trained weights as showed in this file: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/build/darknet/x64/partial.cmd
If you made you custom model that isn't based on other models, then you can train it without pre-trained weights, then will be used random initial weights.
2. Once training is stopped, you should take some of last `.weights`-files from `darknet\build\darknet\x64\backup` and choose the best of them:
For example, you stopped training after 9000 iterations, but the best result can give one of previous weights (7000, 8000, 9000). It can happen due to overfitting. **Overfitting** - is case when you can detect objects on images from training-dataset, but can't detect ojbects on any others images. You should get weights from **Early Stopping Point**:
2.1. At first, in your file `obj.data` you must specify the path to the validation dataset `valid = valid.txt` (format of `valid.txt` as in `train.txt`), and if you haven't validation images, just copy `data\train.txt` to `data\valid.txt`.
* **IoU** (intersect of union) - average instersect of union of objects and detections for a certain threshold = 0.24
* **mAP** (mean average precision) - mean value of `average precisions` for each class, where `average precision` is average value of 11 points on PR-curve for each possible threshold (each probability of detection) for the same class (Precision-Recall in terms of PascalVOC, where Precision=TP/(TP+FP) and Recall=TP/(TP+FN) ), page-11: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ckiw/postscript/ijcv_voc09.pdf
In terms of Wiki, indicators Precision and Recall have a slightly different meaning than in the PascalVOC competition, but **IoU always has the same meaning**.
1. To calculate mAP (mean average precision) on PascalVOC-2007-test:
* Download PascalVOC dataset, install Python 3.x and get file `2007_test.txt` as described here: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet#how-to-train-pascal-voc-data
* Then download file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/scripts/voc_label_difficult.py to the dir `build\darknet\x64\data\voc` then run `voc_label_difficult.py` to get the file `difficult_2007_test.txt`
* Remove symbol `#` from this line to un-comment it: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/build/darknet/x64/data/voc.data#L4
* Then there are 2 ways to get mAP:
1. Using Darknet + Python: run the file `build/darknet/x64/calc_mAP_voc_py.cmd` - you will get mAP for `yolo-voc.cfg` model, mAP = 75.9%
2. Using this fork of Darknet: run the file `build/darknet/x64/calc_mAP.cmd` - you will get mAP for `yolo-voc.cfg` model, mAP = 75.8%
(The article specifies the value of mAP = 76.8% for YOLOv2 416×416, page-4 table-3: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.08242v1.pdf. We get values lower - perhaps due to the fact that the model was trained on a slightly different source code than the code on which the detection is was done)
* if you want to get mAP for `tiny-yolo-voc.cfg` model, then un-comment line for tiny-yolo-voc.cfg and comment line for yolo-voc.cfg in the .cmd-file
* if you have Python 2.x instead of Python 3.x, and if you use Darknet+Python-way to get mAP, then in your cmd-file use `reval_voc.py` and `voc_eval.py` instead of `reval_voc_py3.py` and `voc_eval_py3.py` from this directory: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/tree/master/scripts
* set flag `random=1` in your `.cfg`-file - it will increase precision by training Yolo for different resolutions: [link]https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/cfg/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L244)
* to speedup training (with decreasing detection accuracy) do Fine-Tuning instead of Transfer-Learning, set param `stopbackward=1` in one of the penultimate convolutional layers, for example here: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/cad4d1618fee74471d335314cb77070fee951a42/cfg/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L202
* Increase network-resolution by set in your `.cfg`-file (`height=608` and `width=608`) or (`height=832` and `width=832`) or (any value multiple of 32) - this increases the precision and makes it possible to detect small objects: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/cfg/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L4)
* if error `Out of memory` occurs then in `.cfg`-file you should increase `subdivisions=16`, 32 or 64: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/cfg/yolo-voc.2.0.cfg#L3)
## How to mark bounded boxes of objects and create annotation files:
Here you can find repository with GUI-software for marking bounded boxes of objects and generating annotation files for Yolo v2: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/Yolo_mark
With example of: `train.txt`, `obj.names`, `obj.data`, `yolo-obj.cfg`, `air`1-6`.txt`, `bird`1-4`.txt` for 2 classes of objects (air, bird) and `train_obj.cmd` with example how to train this image-set with Yolo v2
*`yolo9000.cfg` - cfg-file of the Yolo9000, also there are paths to the `9k.tree` and `coco9k.map` https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/617cf313ccb1fe005db3f7d88dec04a04bd97cc2/cfg/yolo9000.cfg#L217-L218
*`9k.tree` - **WordTree** of 9418 categories - `<label> <parent_it>`, if `parent_id == -1` then this label hasn't parent: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/9k.tree
*`combine9k.data` - data file, there are paths to: `9k.labels`, `9k.names`, `inet9k.map`, (change path to your `combine9k.train.list`): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/combine9k.data
1. To compile Yolo as C++ DLL-file `yolo_cpp_dll.dll` - open in MSVS2015 file `build\darknet\yolo_cpp_dll.sln`, set **x64** and **Release**, and do the: Build -> Build yolo_cpp_dll
* To use cuDNN do: (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, and add at the beginning of line: `CUDNN;`
2. To use Yolo as DLL-file in your C++ console application - open in MSVS2015 file `build\darknet\yolo_console_dll.sln`, set **x64** and **Release**, and do the: Build -> Build yolo_console_dll
* you can run your console application from Windows Explorer `build\darknet\x64\yolo_console_dll.exe`
* or you can run from MSVS2015 (before this - you should copy 2 files `yolo-voc.cfg` and `yolo-voc.weights` to the directory `build\darknet\` )
* after launching your console application and entering the image file name - you will see info for each object:
* to use simple OpenCV-GUI you should uncomment line `//#define OPENCV` in `yolo_console_dll.cpp`-file: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/a6cbaeecde40f91ddc3ea09aa26a03ab5bbf8ba8/src/yolo_console_dll.cpp#L5)
* you can see source code of simple example for detection on the video file: [link](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/ab1c5f9e57b4175f29a6ef39e7e68987d3e98704/src/yolo_console_dll.cpp#L75)
