// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt /* This example shows how to train a CNN based object detector using dlib's loss_mmod loss layer. This loss layer implements the Max-Margin Object Detection loss as described in the paper: Max-Margin Object Detection by Davis E. King (http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00046). This is the same loss used by the popular SVM+HOG object detector in dlib (see fhog_object_detector_ex.cpp) except here we replace the HOG features with a CNN and train the entire detector end-to-end. This allows us to make much more powerful detectors. It would be a good idea to become familiar with dlib's DNN tooling before reading this example. So you should read dnn_introduction_ex.cpp and dnn_introduction2_ex.cpp before reading this example program. You should also read the introductory DNN+MMOD example dnn_mmod_ex.cpp as well before proceeding. This example is essentially a more complex version of dnn_mmod_ex.cpp. In it we train a detector that finds the rear ends of motor vehicles. I will also discuss some aspects of data preparation useful when training this kind of detector. */ #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace dlib; template using con5d = con; template using con5 = con; template using downsampler = relu>>>>>>>>; template using rcon5 = relu>>; using net_type = loss_mmod>>>>>>>; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- int ignore_overlapped_boxes( std::vector& boxes, const test_box_overlap& overlaps ) /*! ensures - Whenever two rectangles in boxes overlap, according to overlaps(), we set the smallest box to ignore. - returns the number of newly ignored boxes. !*/ { int num_ignored = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < boxes.size(); ++i) { if (boxes[i].ignore) continue; for (size_t j = i+1; j < boxes.size(); ++j) { if (boxes[j].ignore) continue; if (overlaps(boxes[i], boxes[j])) { ++num_ignored; if(boxes[i].rect.area() < boxes[j].rect.area()) boxes[i].ignore = true; else boxes[j].ignore = true; } } } return num_ignored; } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main(int argc, char** argv) try { if (argc != 2) { cout << "Give the path to a folder containing training.xml and testing.xml files." << endl; cout << "This example program is specifically designed to run on the dlib vehicle " << endl; cout << "detection dataset, which is available at this URL: " << endl; cout << " http://dlib.net/files/data/dlib_rear_end_vehicles_v1.tar" << endl; cout << endl; cout << "So download that dataset, extract it somewhere, and then run this program" << endl; cout << "with the dlib_rear_end_vehicles folder as an argument. E.g. if you extract" << endl; cout << "the dataset to the current folder then you should run this example program" << endl; cout << "by typing: " << endl; cout << " ./dnn_mmod_train_find_cars_ex dlib_rear_end_vehicles" << endl; cout << endl; cout << "It takes about a day to finish if run on a high end GPU like a 1080ti." << endl; cout << endl; return 0; } const std::string data_directory = argv[1]; std::vector> images_train, images_test; std::vector> boxes_train, boxes_test; load_image_dataset(images_train, boxes_train, data_directory+"/training.xml"); load_image_dataset(images_test, boxes_test, data_directory+"/testing.xml"); // When I was creating the dlib vehicle detection dataset I had to label all the cars // in each image. MMOD requires all cars to be labeled, since any unlabeled part of an // image is implicitly assumed to be not a car, and the algorithm will use it as // negative training data. So every car must be labeled, either with a normal // rectangle or an "ignore" rectangle that tells MMOD to simply ignore it (i.e. neither // treat it as a thing to detect nor as negative training data). // // In our present case, many images contain very tiny cars in the distance, ones that // are essentially just dark smudges. It's not reasonable to expect the CNN // architecture we defined to detect such vehicles. However, I erred on the side of // having more complete annotations when creating the dataset. So when I labeled these // images I labeled many of these really difficult cases as vehicles to detect. // // So the first thing we are going to do is clean up our dataset a little bit. In // particular, we are going to mark boxes smaller than 35*35 pixels as ignore since // only really small and blurry cars appear at those sizes. We will also mark boxes // that are heavily overlapped by another box as ignore. We do this because we want to // allow for stronger non-maximum suppression logic in the learned detector, since that // will help make it easier to learn a good detector. // // To explain this non-max suppression idea further it's important to understand how // the detector works. Essentially, sliding window detectors scan all image locations // and ask "is there a care here?". If there really is a car in a specific location in // an image then usually many slightly different sliding window locations will produce // high detection scores, indicating that there is a car at those locations. If we // just stopped there then each car would produce multiple detections. But that isn't // what we want. We want each car to produce just one detection. So it's common for // detectors to include "non-maximum suppression" logic which simply takes the // strongest detection and then deletes all detections "close to" the strongest. This // is a simple post-processing step that can eliminate duplicate detections. However, // we have to define what "close to" means. We can do this by looking at your training // data and checking how close the closest target boxes are to each other, and then // picking a "close to" measure that doesn't suppress those target boxes but is // otherwise as tight as possible. This is exactly what the mmod_options object does // by default. // // Importantly, this means that if your training dataset contains an image with two // target boxes that really overlap a whole lot, then the non-maximum suppression // "close to" measure will be configured to allow detections to really overlap a whole // lot. On the other hand, if your dataset didn't contain any overlapped boxes at all, // then the non-max suppression logic would be configured to filter out any boxes that // overlapped at all, and thus would be performing a much stronger non-max suppression. // // Why does this matter? Well, remember that we want to avoid duplicate detections. // If non-max suppression just kills everything in a really wide area around a car then // the CNN doesn't really need to learn anything about avoiding duplicate detections. // However, if non-max suppression only suppresses a tiny area around each detection // then the CNN will need to learn to output small detection scores for those areas of // the image not suppressed. The smaller the non-max suppression region the more the // CNN has to learn and the more difficult the learning problem will become. This is // why we remove highly overlapped objects from the training dataset. That is, we do // it so the non-max suppression logic will be able to be reasonably effective. Here // we are ensuring that any boxes that are entirely contained by another are // suppressed. We also ensure that boxes with an intersection over union of 0.5 or // greater are suppressed. This will improve the resulting detector since it will be // able to use more aggressive non-max suppression settings. int num_overlapped_ignored_test = 0; for (auto& v : boxes_test) num_overlapped_ignored_test += ignore_overlapped_boxes(v, test_box_overlap(0.50, 0.95)); int num_overlapped_ignored = 0; int num_additional_ignored = 0; for (auto& v : boxes_train) { num_overlapped_ignored += ignore_overlapped_boxes(v, test_box_overlap(0.50, 0.95)); for (auto& bb : v) { if (bb.rect.width() < 35 && bb.rect.height() < 35) { if (!bb.ignore) { bb.ignore = true; ++num_additional_ignored; } } // The dlib vehicle detection dataset doesn't contain any detections with // really extreme aspect ratios. However, some datasets do, often because of // bad labeling. So it's a good idea to check for that and either eliminate // those boxes or set them to ignore. Although, this depends on your // application. // // For instance, if your dataset has boxes with an aspect ratio // of 10 then you should think about what that means for the network // architecture. Does the receptive field even cover the entirety of the box // in those cases? Do you care about these boxes? Are they labeling errors? // I find that many people will download some dataset from the internet and // just take it as given. They run it through some training algorithm and take // the dataset as unchallengeable truth. But many datasets are full of // labeling errors. There are also a lot of datasets that aren't full of // errors, but are annotated in a sloppy and inconsistent way. Fixing those // errors and inconsistencies can often greatly improve models trained from // such data. It's almost always worth the time to try and improve your // training dataset. // // In any case, my point is that there are other types of dataset cleaning you // could put here. What exactly you need depends on your application. But you // should carefully consider it and not take your dataset as a given. The work // of creating a good detector is largely about creating a high quality // training dataset. } } // When modifying a dataset like this, it's a really good idea to print a log of how // many boxes you ignored. It's easy to accidentally ignore a huge block of data, so // you should always look and see that things are doing what you expect. cout << "num_overlapped_ignored: "<< num_overlapped_ignored << endl; cout << "num_additional_ignored: "<< num_additional_ignored << endl; cout << "num_overlapped_ignored_test: "<< num_overlapped_ignored_test << endl; cout << "num training images: " << images_train.size() << endl; cout << "num testing images: " << images_test.size() << endl; // Our vehicle detection dataset has basically 3 different types of boxes. Square // boxes, tall and skinny boxes (e.g. semi trucks), and short and wide boxes (e.g. // sedans). Here we are telling the MMOD algorithm that a vehicle is recognizable as // long as the longest box side is at least 70 pixels long and the shortest box side is // at least 30 pixels long. mmod_options will use these parameters to decide how large // each of the sliding windows needs to be so as to be able to detect all the vehicles. // Since our dataset has basically these 3 different aspect ratios, it will decide to // use 3 different sliding windows. This means the final con layer in the network will // have 3 filters, one for each of these aspect ratios. // // Another thing to consider when setting the sliding window size is the "stride" of // your network. The network we defined above downsamples the image by a factor of 8x // in the first few layers. So when the sliding windows are scanning the image, they // are stepping over it with a stride of 8 pixels. If you set the sliding window size // too small then the stride will become an issue. For instance, if you set the // sliding window size to 4 pixels, then it means a 4x4 window will be moved by 8 // pixels at a time when scanning. This is obviously a problem since 75% of the image // won't even be visited by the sliding window. So you need to set the window size to // be big enough relative to the stride of your network. In our case, the windows are // at least 30 pixels in length, so being moved by 8 pixel steps is fine. mmod_options options(boxes_train, 70, 30); // This setting is very important and dataset specific. The vehicle detection dataset // contains boxes that are marked as "ignore", as we discussed above. Some of them are // ignored because we set ignore to true in the above code. However, the xml files // also contained a lot of ignore boxes. Some of them are large boxes that encompass // large parts of an image and the intention is to have everything inside those boxes // be ignored. Therefore, we need to tell the MMOD algorithm to do that, which we do // by setting options.overlaps_ignore appropriately. // // But first, we need to understand exactly what this option does. The MMOD loss // is essentially counting the number of false alarms + missed detections produced by // the detector for each image. During training, the code is running the detector on // each image in a mini-batch and looking at its output and counting the number of // mistakes. The optimizer tries to find parameters settings that minimize the number // of detector mistakes. // // This overlaps_ignore option allows you to tell the loss that some outputs from the // detector should be totally ignored, as if they never happened. In particular, if a // detection overlaps a box in the training data with ignore==true then that detection // is ignored. This overlap is determined by calling // options.overlaps_ignore(the_detection, the_ignored_training_box). If it returns // true then that detection is ignored. // // You should read the documentation for test_box_overlap, the class type for // overlaps_ignore for full details. However, the gist is that the default behavior is // to only consider boxes as overlapping if their intersection over union is > 0.5. // However, the dlib vehicle detection dataset contains large boxes that are meant to // mask out large areas of an image. So intersection over union isn't an appropriate // way to measure "overlaps with box" in this case. We want any box that is contained // inside one of these big regions to be ignored, even if the detection box is really // small. So we set overlaps_ignore to behave that way with this line. options.overlaps_ignore = test_box_overlap(0.5, 0.95); net_type net(options); // The final layer of the network must be a con layer that contains // options.detector_windows.size() filters. This is because these final filters are // what perform the final "sliding window" detection in the network. For the dlib // vehicle dataset, there will be 3 sliding window detectors, so we will be setting // num_filters to 3 here. net.subnet().layer_details().set_num_filters(options.detector_windows.size()); dnn_trainer trainer(net,sgd(0.0001,0.9)); trainer.set_learning_rate(0.1); trainer.be_verbose(); // While training, we are going to use early stopping. That is, we will be checking // how good the detector is performing on our test data and when it stops getting // better on the test data we will drop the learning rate. We will keep doing that // until the learning rate is less than 1e-4. These two settings tell the trainer to // do that. Essentially, we are setting the first argument to infinity, and only the // test iterations without progress threshold will matter. In particular, it says that // once we observe 1000 testing mini-batches where the test loss clearly isn't // decreasing we will lower the learning rate. trainer.set_iterations_without_progress_threshold(50000); trainer.set_test_iterations_without_progress_threshold(1000); const string sync_filename = "mmod_cars_sync"; trainer.set_synchronization_file(sync_filename, std::chrono::minutes(5)); std::vector> mini_batch_samples; std::vector> mini_batch_labels; random_cropper cropper; cropper.set_seed(time(0)); cropper.set_chip_dims(350, 350); // Usually you want to give the cropper whatever min sizes you passed to the // mmod_options constructor, or very slightly smaller sizes, which is what we do here. cropper.set_min_object_size(69,28); cropper.set_max_rotation_degrees(2); dlib::rand rnd; // Log the training parameters to the console cout << trainer << cropper << endl; int cnt = 1; // Run the trainer until the learning rate gets small. while(trainer.get_learning_rate() >= 1e-4) { // Every 30 mini-batches we do a testing mini-batch. if (cnt%30 != 0 || images_test.size() == 0) { cropper(87, images_train, boxes_train, mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); // We can also randomly jitter the colors and that often helps a detector // generalize better to new images. for (auto&& img : mini_batch_samples) disturb_colors(img, rnd); // It's a good idea to, at least once, put code here that displays the images // and boxes the random cropper is generating. You should look at them and // think about if the output makes sense for your problem. Most of the time // it will be fine, but sometimes you will realize that the pattern of cropping // isn't really appropriate for your problem and you will need to make some // change to how the mini-batches are being generated. Maybe you will tweak // some of the cropper's settings, or write your own entirely separate code to // create mini-batches. But either way, if you don't look you will never know. // An easy way to do this is to create a dlib::image_window to display the // images and boxes. trainer.train_one_step(mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); } else { cropper(87, images_test, boxes_test, mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); // We can also randomly jitter the colors and that often helps a detector // generalize better to new images. for (auto&& img : mini_batch_samples) disturb_colors(img, rnd); trainer.test_one_step(mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); } ++cnt; } // wait for training threads to stop trainer.get_net(); cout << "done training" << endl; // Save the network to disk net.clean(); serialize("mmod_rear_end_vehicle_detector.dat") << net; // It's a really good idea to print the training parameters. This is because you will // invariably be running multiple rounds of training and should be logging the output // to a file. This print statement will include many of the training parameters in // your log. cout << trainer << cropper << endl; cout << "\nsync_filename: " << sync_filename << endl; cout << "num training images: "<< images_train.size() << endl; cout << "training results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_train, boxes_train, test_box_overlap(), 0, options.overlaps_ignore); // Upsampling the data will allow the detector to find smaller cars. Recall that // we configured it to use a sliding window nominally 70 pixels in size. So upsampling // here will let it find things nominally 35 pixels in size. Although we include a // limit of 1800*1800 here which means "don't upsample an image if it's already larger // than 1800*1800". We do this so we don't run out of RAM, which is a concern because // some of the images in the dlib vehicle dataset are really high resolution. upsample_image_dataset>(images_train, boxes_train, 1800*1800); cout << "training upsampled results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_train, boxes_train, test_box_overlap(), 0, options.overlaps_ignore); cout << "num testing images: "<< images_test.size() << endl; cout << "testing results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_test, boxes_test, test_box_overlap(), 0, options.overlaps_ignore); upsample_image_dataset>(images_test, boxes_test, 1800*1800); cout << "testing upsampled results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_test, boxes_test, test_box_overlap(), 0, options.overlaps_ignore); /* This program takes many hours to execute on a high end GPU. It took about a day to train on a NVIDIA 1080ti. The resulting model file is available at http://dlib.net/files/mmod_rear_end_vehicle_detector.dat.bz2 It should be noted that this file on dlib.net has a dlib::shape_predictor appended onto the end of it (see dnn_mmod_find_cars_ex.cpp for an example of its use). This explains why the model file on dlib.net is larger than the mmod_rear_end_vehicle_detector.dat output by this program. You can see some videos of this vehicle detector running on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3bzmxMAZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2SUo5vSlc Also, the training and testing accuracies were: num training images: 2217 training results: 0.990738 0.736431 0.736073 training upsampled results: 0.986837 0.937694 0.936912 num testing images: 135 testing results: 0.988827 0.471372 0.470806 testing upsampled results: 0.987879 0.651132 0.650399 */ return 0; } catch(std::exception& e) { cout << e.what() << endl; }