I have a set of icons and a screen recording, the icons are not annotated and have no bounding boxes, they are just png icons with image-level labels eg: "instagram", "facebook", "chrome".
The task is to find the icons within the screen recording and draw a bounding box around them, given the above prerequistes.
My idea of approach so far is:
Use selective search to find ROIs
Use a CNN to classify the regions
Filter out non-icons regions
Draw bounding boxes around positive labelled ROIs
Use resulting screen images with bounding boxes to train a FAST R-CNN
but I am stuck at step 2, I have no idea on how to train the CNN with the image-level labelled icons.
If I make a dataset of all the possible icon-images, with no background or context informations, is it possible to train the CNN to answer the question "Does the ROI includes a possible icon?"
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I'm wondering about image resizing and then the intuitive bounding box resizing that would follow that.
For instance, when I use a 640x640 image in my dataset, and the model has a fixed_shape_resizer of 320x320, will the original bounding box be scaled down to match the smaller 320x320 size?
Yes, Tensorflow will automatically resize the bounding box to match the smaller input size.
Here is a Link to the code that changes the bounding box sizes.
I'm training an object detection model with Tensorflow (fine tuning from ssd_mobilenet_v2_320x320_coco17_tpu-8) and monitor the training task with tensorboard. I was expecting in the Images tab of tensorboard that images that are displayed would show a bounding box. What I see though is only images with an orange line drawn above the picture (the same orange that I expect for the bounding box). Am I missing something? Am I right when I say that a bounding box should appear or not? Picture of what I see is joined. Any help greatly appreciated.
I am trying to better understand how the YOLO2 & 3 algorithms works. The algorithm processes a series of convolutions until it gets down to a 13x13 grid. Then it is able to classify objects within each grid cell as well as the bounding boxes for those objects.
If you look at this picture, you see that the bounding box in red is larger than any individual grid cell. Also the bounding box is centered at the center of the object.
My questions of to do with how do the predicted bounding boxes exceed the size of the grid cell, when the network activations are based upon the individual grid cell. I mean everything outside of the grid cell should be unknown to the neurons predicting the bounding boxes for an object detected in that cell right.
More precisely here are my questions:
1. How does the algorithm predict bounding boxes that are larger than the grid cell?
2. How does the algorithm know in which cell the center of the object is located?
everything outside of the grid cell should be unknown to the neurons predicting the bounding boxes for an object detected in that cell right.
It's not quite right. The cells correspond to a partition of the image where the neuron have learned to respond if the center of an object is located within.
However, the receptive field of those output neurons is much larger than the cell and actually cover the entire image. It is therefore able to recognize and draw a bounding box around an object much larger than its assigned "center cell".
So a cell is centered on the center of the receptive field of the output neuron but is a much smaller part. It is also somewhat arbitrary, and one could image for example to have overlapping cells -- in which case you would expect neighboring neurons to fire simultaneously when an object is centered in the overlapping zone of their cells.
YOLO predicts offsets to anchors. The anchors are initialised such that there are 13x13 sets of anchors. (In Yolov3 each set has k=5 anchors, different yolo versions have different k.) The anchors are spread over the image, to make sure objects in all parts are detected.
The anchors can have an arbitrary size and aspect ratio, unrelated to the grid size. If your dataset has mostly large foreground objects, then you should initialise your anchors to be large. YOLO learns better if it only has to make small adjustments to the anchors.
Each prediction actually uses information from the whole image. Often context from the rest of the image helps the prediction. e.g. black pixels below a vehicle could be either tyres or shadow.
The algorithm doesn't really "know" in which cell the centre of the object is located. But during trainig we have that information from the ground truth, and we can train it to guess. With enough training, it ends up pretty good at guessing. The way that works is that the closest anchor to the ground truth is assigned to the object. Other anchors are assigned to the other objects or to the background. Anchors assigned to the background are supposed to have a low confidence, while anchors assigned to an object are assessed for the IoU of their bounding boxes. So the training reinforces one anchor to give a high confidence and an accurate bounding box, while other anchors give a low confidence. The example in your question doesn't include any predictions with low confidence (probably trying to keep things simple) but actually there will be many many more low confidence predictions than high confidence ones.
Ok this is not my first time seing this question, had the same problem and infact for all the YOLO 1 & 2 architectures I encountered during my yoloquest, no where did the network-diagrams imply some classification and localization kicked it at the first layer or the moment the image was fed in. It passes through a series of convolution layers and filters(didn't forget the pooling just feel they are the laziest elements in the network plus I hate swimming pools including the words in it).
Which implies at basic levels of the network flow information is seen
or represented differently i.e. from pixels to outlines, shapes ,
features etc before the object is correctly classified or localised
just as in any normal CNN
Since the tensor representing the bounding box predictions and
classifications is located towards the end of the network(I see
regression with backpropagation). I believe it is more appropriate to
say that the network:
divides the image into cells(actually the author of the network did this with the training label datasets)
for each cell divided, tries to predict bounding boxes with confidence scores(I believe the convolution and filters right after
the cell divisions are responsible for being able to correctly have
the network predict bounding boxes larger than each cell because they
feed on more than one cell at a time if you look at the complete YOLO
architecture, there's no incomplete one).
So to conclude, my take on it is that the network predicts larger
bounding boxes for a cell and not that each cell does this
i.e. The network can be viewed as a normal CNN that has outputs for
each classification + number of bounding boxes per cell whose sole goal is
to apply convolutions and feature maps to detect, classify and
localise objects with a forward pass.
forward pass implying neighbouring cells in the division don't query other cells backwardly/recursively, prediction of larger bounding boxes are by next feature maps and convolutions connected to receptive areas of previous cell divisions. also the box being centroidal is a function of the training data, if it's changed to top-leftiness it wouldn't be centroidal(forgive the grammar).
I am doing an object detection on sample toy sets using tensorflow RCNN on my own dataset.
Sometimes when two toys are closed to each other, the tensor flow is bounding both boxes together. So instead of returning two bounding boxes, tensorflow returning one bigger bounding box.
(as in the attached image both red and blue cars have been bounded together)
Does anyone know what is the issue here and how to do individual identification?
Detected Output image
I'm trying to collect my own training data set for the image detection (Recognition, yet). Right now, I have 4 classes and 750 images for each. Each images are just regular images of the each classes; however, some of images are blur or contain outside objects such as, different background or other factors (but nothing distinguishable stuff). Using that training data set, image recognition is really bad.
My question is,
1. Does the training image set needs to contain the object in various background/setting/environment (I believe not...)?
2. Lets just say training worked fairly accurately and I want to know the location of the object on the image. I figure there is no way I can find the location just using the image recognition, so if I use the bounding box, how/where in the code can I see the location of the bounding box?
Thank you in advance!
It is difficult to know in advance what features your programm will learn for each class. But then again, if your unseen images will be in the same background, the background will play no role. I would suggest data augmentation in training; randomly color distortion, random flipping, random cropping.
You can't see in the code where the bounding box is. You have to label/annotate them yourself first in your collected data, using a tool as LabelMe for example. Then comes learning the object detector.