- How to use
- How to compile on Linux
- How to compile on Windows
- How to train (Pascal VOC Data)
- How to train (to detect your custom objects)
- When should I stop training
- How to calculate mAP on PascalVOC 2007
- How to improve object detection
- How to mark bounded boxes of objects and create annotation files
- Using Yolo9000
- How to use Yolo as DLL
mAP (AP50) https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf |
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- Yolo v3 source chart for the RetinaNet on MS COCO got from Table 1 (e): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.02002.pdf
- Yolo v2 on Pascal VOC 2007: https://hsto.org/files/a24/21e/068/a2421e0689fb43f08584de9d44c2215f.jpg
- Yolo v2 on Pascal VOC 2012 (comp4): https://hsto.org/files/3a6/fdf/b53/3a6fdfb533f34cee9b52bdd9bb0b19d9.jpg
A Yolo cross-platform Windows and Linux version (for object detection). Contributtors: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/graphs/contributors
This repository is forked from Linux-version: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet
More details: http://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
This repository supports:
- both Windows and Linux
- both OpenCV 2.x.x and OpenCV <= 3.4.0 (3.4.1 and higher isn't supported)
- both cuDNN v5-v7
- CUDA >= 7.5
- also create SO-library on Linux and DLL-library on Windows
- Linux GCC>=4.9 or Windows MS Visual Studio 2015 (v140): https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532606&clcid=0x409 (or offline ISO image)
- CUDA 9.1: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
- OpenCV 3.4.0: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/3.4.0/opencv-3.4.0-vc14_vc15.exe/download
- or OpenCV 2.4.13: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-win/2.4.13/opencv-2.4.13.2-vc14.exe/download
- OpenCV allows to show image or video detection in the window and store result to file that specified in command line
-out_filename res.avi
- OpenCV allows to show image or video detection in the window and store result to file that specified in command line
- GPU with CC >= 3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#GPUs_supported
Pre-trained models for different cfg-files can be downloaded from (smaller -> faster & lower quality):
yolov3.cfg
(236 MB COCO Yolo v3) - require 4 GB GPU-RAM: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov3.weightsyolov2.cfg
(194 MB COCO Yolo v2) - require 4 GB GPU-RAM: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov2.weightsyolo-voc.cfg
(194 MB VOC Yolo v2) - require 4 GB GPU-RAM: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolo-voc.weightsyolov2-tiny.cfg
(43 MB COCO Yolo v2) - require 1 GB GPU-RAM: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov2-tiny.weightsyolov2-tiny-voc.cfg
(60 MB VOC Yolo v2) - require 1 GB GPU-RAM: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov2-tiny-voc.weightsyolo9000.cfg
(186 MB Yolo9000-model) - require 4 GB GPU-RAM: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolo9000.weights
Put it near compiled: darknet.exe
You can get cfg-files by path: darknet/cfg/
Others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ev3hNVkx4DzZ3LO19oebg
-
darknet_yolo_v3.cmd
- initialization with 236 MB Yolo v3 COCO-model yolov3.weights & yolov3.cfg and show detection on the image: dog.jpg -
darknet_voc.cmd
- initialization with 194 MB VOC-model yolo-voc.weights & yolo-voc.cfg and waiting for entering the name of the image file -
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.cmd
- initialization with 186 MB Yolo9000 COCO-model, and show detection on the image: dog.jpg -
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
On Linux use ./darknet
instead of darknet.exe
, like this:./darknet detector test ./cfg/coco.data ./cfg/yolov3.cfg ./yolov3.weights
- 194 MB COCO-model - image:
darknet.exe detector test data/coco.data yolo.cfg yolo.weights -i 0 -thresh 0.2
- Alternative method 194 MB COCO-model - image:
darknet.exe detect yolo.cfg yolo.weights -i 0 -thresh 0.2
- 194 MB VOC-model - image:
darknet.exe detector test data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights -i 0
- 194 MB COCO-model - video:
darknet.exe detector demo data/coco.data yolo.cfg yolo.weights test.mp4 -i 0
- 194 MB VOC-model - video:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights test.mp4 -i 0
- 194 MB COCO-model - save result to the file res.avi:
darknet.exe detector demo data/coco.data yolo.cfg yolo.weights test.mp4 -i 0 -out_filename res.avi
- 194 MB VOC-model - save result to the file res.avi:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights test.mp4 -i 0 -out_filename res.avi
- Alternative method 194 MB VOC-model - video:
darknet.exe yolo demo yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights test.mp4 -i 0
- 60 MB VOC-model for video:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data tiny-yolo-voc.cfg tiny-yolo-voc.weights test.mp4 -i 0
- 194 MB COCO-model for net-videocam - Smart WebCam:
darknet.exe detector demo data/coco.data yolo.cfg yolo.weights http://192.168.0.80:8080/video?dummy=param.mjpg -i 0
- 194 MB VOC-model for net-videocam - Smart WebCam:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights http://192.168.0.80:8080/video?dummy=param.mjpg -i 0
- 194 MB VOC-model - WebCamera #0:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights -c 0
- 186 MB Yolo9000 - image:
darknet.exe detector test cfg/combine9k.data yolo9000.cfg yolo9000.weights
- 186 MB Yolo9000 - video:
darknet.exe detector demo cfg/combine9k.data yolo9000.cfg yolo9000.weights test.mp4
- Remeber to put data/9k.tree and data/coco9k.map under the same folder of your app if you use the cpp api to build an app
- To process a list of images
data/train.txt
and save results of detection toresult.txt
use:
darknet.exe detector test data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights -dont_show < data/train.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
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Download for Android phone mjpeg-stream soft: IP Webcam / Smart WebCam
- Smart WebCam - preferably: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acontech.android.SmartWebCam2
- IP Webcam: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam
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Connect your Android phone to computer by WiFi (through a WiFi-router) or USB
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Start Smart WebCam on your phone
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Replace the address below, on shown in the phone application (Smart WebCam) and launch:
- 194 MB COCO-model:
darknet.exe detector demo data/coco.data yolo.cfg yolo.weights http://192.168.0.80:8080/video?dummy=param.mjpg -i 0
- 194 MB VOC-model:
darknet.exe detector demo data/voc.data yolo-voc.cfg yolo-voc.weights http://192.168.0.80:8080/video?dummy=param.mjpg -i 0
Just do make
in the darknet directory.
Before make, you can set such options in the Makefile
: link
GPU=1
to build with CUDA to accelerate by using GPU (CUDA should be in/usr/local/cuda
)CUDNN=1
to build with cuDNN v5-v7 to accelerate training by using GPU (cuDNN should be in/usr/local/cudnn
)CUDNN_HALF=1
to build for Tensor Cores (on Titan V / Tesla V100 / DGX-2 and later) speedup Detection 3x, Training 2xOPENCV=1
to build with OpenCV 3.x/2.4.x - allows to detect on video files and video streams from network cameras or web-camsDEBUG=1
to bould debug version of YoloOPENMP=1
to build with OpenMP support to accelerate Yolo by using multi-core CPULIBSO=1
to build a librarydarknet.so
and binary runable fileuselib
that uses this library. Or you can try to run soLD_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
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If you have MSVS 2015, CUDA 9.1, cuDNN 7.0 and OpenCV 3.x (with paths:
C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\include
&C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib
), then start MSVS, openbuild\darknet\darknet.sln
, set x64 and Release, and do the: Build -> Build darknet. NOTE: If installing OpenCV, use OpenCV 3.4.0 or earlier. This is a bug in OpenCV 3.4.1 in the C API (see #500).1.1. Find files
opencv_world320.dll
andopencv_ffmpeg320_64.dll
(oropencv_world340.dll
andopencv_ffmpeg340_64.dll
) inC:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\bin
and put it near withdarknet.exe
1.2 Check that there are
bin
andinclude
folders in theC:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v9.1
if aren't, then copy them to this folder from the path where is CUDA installed1.3. To install CUDNN (speedup neural network), do the following:
-
download and install cuDNN 7.0 for CUDA 9.1: https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn
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add Windows system variable
cudnn
with path to CUDNN: https://hsto.org/files/a49/3dc/fc4/a493dcfc4bd34a1295fd15e0e2e01f26.jpg
1.4. If you want to build without CUDNN then: open
\darknet.sln
-> (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, and remove this:CUDNN;
-
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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 -
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, openbuild\darknet\darknet_no_gpu.sln
, set x64 and Release, and do the: Build -> Build darknet_no_gpu -
If you have OpenCV 2.4.13 instead of 3.0 then you should change pathes after
\darknet.sln
is opened4.1 (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories:
C:\opencv_2.4.13\opencv\build\include
4.2 (right click on project) -> properties -> Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories:
C:\opencv_2.4.13\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib
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If you have GPU with Tensor Cores (nVidia Titan V / Tesla V100 / DGX-2 and later) speedup Detection 3x, Training 2x:
\darknet.sln
-> (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, and add here:CUDNN_HALF;
Also, you can to create your own darknet.sln
& darknet.vcxproj
, this example for CUDA 9.1 and OpenCV 3.0
Then add to your created project:
- (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories, put here:
C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\include;..\..\3rdparty\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories);$(CudaToolkitIncludeDir);$(cudnn)\include
- (right click on project) -> Build dependecies -> Build Customizations -> set check on CUDA 9.1 or what version you have - for example as here: http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/VS2013-R-5.jpg
- add to project all
.c
&.cu
files and filehttp_stream.cpp
from\src
- (right click on project) -> properties -> Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories, put here:
C:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\lib;$(CUDA_PATH)lib\$(PlatformName);$(cudnn)\lib\x64;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)
- (right click on project) -> properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependecies, put here:
..\..\3rdparty\lib\x64\pthreadVC2.lib;cublas.lib;curand.lib;cudart.lib;cudnn.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)
- (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions
OPENCV;_TIMESPEC_DEFINED;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;_CRT_RAND_S;WIN32;NDEBUG;_CONSOLE;_LIB;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
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compile to .exe (X64 & Release) and put .dll-s near with .exe:
-
pthreadVC2.dll, pthreadGC2.dll
from \3rdparty\dll\x64 -
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 -
For OpenCV 3.2:
opencv_world320.dll
andopencv_ffmpeg320_64.dll
fromC:\opencv_3.0\opencv\build\x64\vc14\bin
-
For OpenCV 2.4.13:
opencv_core2413.dll
,opencv_highgui2413.dll
andopencv_ffmpeg2413_64.dll
fromC:\opencv_2.4.13\opencv\build\x64\vc14\bin
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Download pre-trained weights for the convolutional layers (154 MB): http://pjreddie.com/media/files/darknet53.conv.74 and put to the directory
build\darknet\x64
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Download The Pascal VOC Data and unpack it to directory
build\darknet\x64\data\voc
will be created dirbuild\darknet\x64\data\voc\VOCdevkit\
:- http://pjreddie.com/media/files/VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
- http://pjreddie.com/media/files/VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
- http://pjreddie.com/media/files/VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
2.1 Download file
voc_label.py
to dirbuild\darknet\x64\data\voc
: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/voc_label.py -
Download and install Python for Windows: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.2/python-3.5.2-amd64.exe
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Run command:
python build\darknet\x64\data\voc\voc_label.py
(to generate files: 2007_test.txt, 2007_train.txt, 2007_val.txt, 2012_train.txt, 2012_val.txt) -
Run command:
type 2007_train.txt 2007_val.txt 2012_*.txt > train.txt
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Set
batch=64
andsubdivisions=8
in the fileyolov3-voc.cfg
: link -
Start training by using
train_voc.cmd
or by using the command line:darknet.exe detector train data/voc.data cfg/yolov3-voc.cfg darknet53.conv.74
(Note: To disable Loss-Window use flag -dont_show
. If you are using CPU, try darknet_no_gpu.exe
instead of darknet.exe
.)
If required change pathes in the file build\darknet\x64\data\voc.data
More information about training by the link: http://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/#train-voc
Note: If during training you see nan
values in some lines then training goes well, but if nan
are in all lines then training goes wrong.
-
Train it first on 1 GPU for like 1000 iterations:
darknet.exe detector train data/voc.data cfg/yolov3-voc.cfg darknet53.conv.74
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Then stop and by using partially-trained model
/backup/yolov3-voc_1000.weights
run training with multigpu (up to 4 GPUs):darknet.exe detector train data/voc.data cfg/yolov3-voc.cfg /backup/yolov3-voc_1000.weights -gpus 0,1,2,3
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/darknet/NbJqonJBTSY/Te5PfIpuCAAJ
(to train old Yolo v2 yolov2-voc.cfg
, yolov2-tiny-voc.cfg
, yolo-voc.cfg
, yolo-voc.2.0.cfg
, ... click by the link)
Training Yolo v3:
- Create file
yolo-obj.cfg
with the same content as inyolov3.cfg
(or copyyolov3.cfg
toyolo-obj.cfg)
and:
- change line batch to
batch=64
- change line subdivisions to
subdivisions=8
- change line
classes=80
to your number of objects in each of 3[yolo]
-layers:- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L610
- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L696
- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L783
- change [
filters=255
] to filters=(classes + 5)x3 in the 3[convolutional]
before each[yolo]
layer- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L603
- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L689
- https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L776
So if classes=1
then should be filters=18
. If classes=2
then write filters=21
.
(Do not write in the cfg-file: filters=(classes + 5)x3)
(Generally filters
depends on the classes
, coords
and number of mask
s, i.e. filters=(classes + coords + 1)*<number of mask>
, where mask
is indices of anchors. If mask
is absence, then filters=(classes + coords + 1)*num
)
So for example, for 2 objects, your file yolo-obj.cfg
should differ from yolov3.cfg
in such lines in each of 3 [yolo]-layers:
[convolutional]
filters=21
[region]
classes=2
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Create file
obj.names
in the directorybuild\darknet\x64\data\
, with objects names - each in new line -
Create file
obj.data
in the directorybuild\darknet\x64\data\
, containing (where classes = number of objects):
classes= 2
train = data/train.txt
valid = data/test.txt
names = data/obj.names
backup = backup/
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Put image-files (.jpg) of your objects in the directory
build\darknet\x64\data\obj\
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You should label each object on images from your dataset. Use this visual GUI-software for marking bounded boxes of objects and generating annotation files for Yolo v2 & v3: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/Yolo_mark
It will 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>
Where:
<object-class>
- integer number of object from0
to(classes-1)
<x> <y> <width> <height>
- float values relative to width and height of image, it can be equal from (0.0 to 1.0]- for example:
<x> = <absolute_x> / <image_width>
or<height> = <absolute_height> / <image_height>
- atention:
<x> <y>
- are center of rectangle (are not top-left corner)
For example for img1.jpg
you will be created 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
- Create file
train.txt
in directorybuild\darknet\x64\data\
, with filenames of your images, each filename in new line, with path relative todarknet.exe
, for example containing:
data/obj/img1.jpg
data/obj/img2.jpg
data/obj/img3.jpg
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Download pre-trained weights for the convolutional layers (154 MB): https://pjreddie.com/media/files/darknet53.conv.74 and put to the directory
build\darknet\x64
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Start training by using the command line:
darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg darknet53.conv.74
(file
yolo-obj_xxx.weights
will be saved to thebuild\darknet\x64\backup\
for each 100 iterations) (To disable Loss-Window usedarknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg darknet53.conv.74 -dont_show
, if you train on computer without monitor like a cloud Amazaon EC2) -
After training is complete - get result
yolo-obj_final.weights
from pathbuild\darknet\x64\backup\
-
After each 100 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
frombuild\darknet\x64\backup\
tobuild\darknet\x64\
and start training using:darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg yolo-obj_2000.weights
(in the original repository https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet the weights-file is saved only once every 10 000 iterations
if(iterations > 1000)
) -
Also you can get result earlier than all 45000 iterations.
Note: If during training you see nan
values in some lines then training goes well, but if nan
are in all lines then training goes wrong.
Do all the same steps as for the full yolo model as described above. With the exception of:
- Download default weights file for yolov2-tiny-voc: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov2-tiny-voc.weights
- Get pre-trained weights yolov2-tiny-voc.conv.13 using command:
darknet.exe partial cfg/yolov2-tiny-voc.cfg yolov2-tiny-voc.weights yolov2-tiny-voc.conv.13 13
- Make your custom model
yolov2-tiny-obj.cfg
based oncfg/yolov2-tiny-voc.cfg
instead ofyolov3.cfg
- Start training:
darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data yolov2-tiny-obj.cfg yolov2-tiny-voc.conv.13
For training Yolo based on other models (DenseNet201-Yolo or ResNet50-Yolo), 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.
Usually sufficient 2000 iterations for each class(object). But for a more precise definition when you should stop training, use the following manual:
- During training, you will see varying indicators of error, and you should stop when no longer decreases 0.XXXXXXX avg:
Region Avg IOU: 0.798363, Class: 0.893232, Obj: 0.700808, No Obj: 0.004567, Avg Recall: 1.000000, count: 8 Region Avg IOU: 0.800677, Class: 0.892181, Obj: 0.701590, No Obj: 0.004574, Avg Recall: 1.000000, count: 8
9002: 0.211667, 0.060730 avg, 0.001000 rate, 3.868000 seconds, 576128 images Loaded: 0.000000 seconds
- 9002 - iteration number (number of batch)
- 0.060730 avg - average loss (error) - the lower, the better
When you see that average loss 0.xxxxxx avg no longer decreases at many iterations then you should stop training.
- Once training is stopped, you should take some of last
.weights
-files fromdarknet\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:
To 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
.
2.2 If training is stopped after 9000 iterations, to validate some of previous weights use this commands:
(If you use another GitHub repository, then use darknet.exe detector recall
... instead of darknet.exe detector map
...)
darknet.exe detector map data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg backup\yolo-obj_7000.weights
darknet.exe detector map data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg backup\yolo-obj_8000.weights
darknet.exe detector map data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg backup\yolo-obj_9000.weights
And comapre last output lines for each weights (7000, 8000, 9000):
Choose weights-file with the highest IoU (intersect of union) and mAP (mean average precision)
For example, bigger IOU gives weights yolo-obj_8000.weights
- then use this weights for detection.
Example of custom object detection: darknet.exe detector test data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg yolo-obj_8000.weights
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IoU (intersect of union) - average instersect of union of objects and detections for a certain threshold = 0.24
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mAP (mean average precision) - mean value of
average precisions
for each class, whereaverage 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
mAP is default metric of precision in the PascalVOC competition, this is the same as AP50 metric in the MS COCO competition. 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.
- 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\
then runvoc_label_difficult.py
to get the filedifficult_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:
- Using Darknet + Python: run the file
build/darknet/x64/calc_mAP_voc_py.cmd
- you will get mAP foryolo-voc.cfg
model, mAP = 75.9% - Using this fork of Darknet: run the file
build/darknet/x64/calc_mAP.cmd
- you will get mAP foryolo-voc.cfg
model, mAP = 75.8%
- Using Darknet + Python: run the file
(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
andvoc_eval.py
instead ofreval_voc_py3.py
andvoc_eval_py3.py
from this directory: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/tree/master/scripts
Example of custom object detection: darknet.exe detector test data/obj.data yolo-obj.cfg yolo-obj_8000.weights
- Before training:
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set flag
random=1
in your.cfg
-file - it will increase precision by training Yolo for different resolutions: link -
increase network resolution in your
.cfg
-file (height=608
,width=608
or any value multiple of 32) - it will increase precision -
recalculate anchors for your dataset for
width
andheight
from cfg-file:darknet.exe detector calc_anchors data/obj.data -num_of_clusters 9 -width 416 -height 416
then set the same 9anchors
in each of 3[yolo]
-layers in your cfg-file -
desirable that your training dataset include images with objects at diffrent: scales, rotations, lightings, from different sides, on different backgrounds
-
desirable that your training dataset include images with non-labeled objects that you do not want to detect - negative samples without bounded box (empty
.txt
files) -
for training with a large number of objects in each image, add the parameter
max=200
or higher value in the last layer [region] in your cfg-file -
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 before the 1-st[yolo]
-layer, for example here: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/0039fd26786ab5f71d5af725fc18b3f521e7acfd/cfg/yolov3.cfg#L598
- After training - for detection:
-
Increase network-resolution by set in your
.cfg
-file (height=608
andwidth=608
) or (height=832
andwidth=832
) or (any value multiple of 32) - this increases the precision and makes it possible to detect small objects: link- you do not need to train the network again, just use
.weights
-file already trained for 416x416 resolution - if error
Out of memory
occurs then in.cfg
-file you should increasesubdivisions=16
, 32 or 64: link
- you do not need to train the network again, just use
Here you can find repository with GUI-software for marking bounded boxes of objects and generating annotation files for Yolo v2 & v3: 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 & v3
Simultaneous detection and classification of 9000 objects:
-
yolo9000.weights
- (186 MB Yolo9000 Model) requires 4 GB GPU-RAM: http://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolo9000.weights -
yolo9000.cfg
- cfg-file of the Yolo9000, also there are paths to the9k.tree
andcoco9k.map
https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/617cf313ccb1fe005db3f7d88dec04a04bd97cc2/cfg/yolo9000.cfg#L217-L218-
9k.tree
- WordTree of 9418 categories -<label> <parent_it>
, ifparent_id == -1
then this label hasn't parent: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/9k.tree -
coco9k.map
- map 80 categories from MSCOCO to WordTree9k.tree
: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/coco9k.map
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-
combine9k.data
- data file, there are paths to:9k.labels
,9k.names
,inet9k.map
, (change path to yourcombine9k.train.list
): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/combine9k.data-
9k.labels
- 9418 labels of objects: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/9k.labels -
9k.names
- 9418 names of objects: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/9k.names -
inet9k.map
- map 200 categories from ImageNet to WordTree9k.tree
: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/master/build/darknet/x64/data/inet9k.map
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To compile Yolo as C++ DLL-file
yolo_cpp_dll.dll
- open in MSVS2015 filebuild\darknet\yolo_cpp_dll.sln
, set x64 and Release, and do the: Build -> Build yolo_cpp_dll- You should have installed CUDA 9.1
- To use cuDNN do: (right click on project) -> properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions, and add at the beginning of line:
CUDNN;
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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
andyolo-voc.weights
to the directorybuild\darknet\
) - after launching your console application and entering the image file name - you will see info for each object:
<obj_id> <left_x> <top_y> <width> <height> <probability>
- to use simple OpenCV-GUI you should uncomment line
//#define OPENCV
inyolo_console_dll.cpp
-file: link - you can see source code of simple example for detection on the video file: link
- you can run your console application from Windows Explorer
yolo_cpp_dll.dll
-API: link
class Detector {
public:
Detector(std::string cfg_filename, std::string weight_filename, int gpu_id = 0);
~Detector();
std::vector<bbox_t> detect(std::string image_filename, float thresh = 0.2, bool use_mean = false);
std::vector<bbox_t> detect(image_t img, float thresh = 0.2, bool use_mean = false);
static image_t load_image(std::string image_filename);
static void free_image(image_t m);
#ifdef OPENCV
std::vector<bbox_t> detect(cv::Mat mat, float thresh = 0.2, bool use_mean = false);
#endif
};