I'm working with CNTK Faster RCNN object detection and now I have been facing with problem.
To make you understand the problem, I will start with explain my work process from started.
First I follow by https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/object-detection-using-faster-r-cnn
to install all of need package. I successful in the step. Then I try with grocery data set which is contain 20 images train (I'm using base model as AlexNet).
And the results is done. everything look work at this point.
Then I use VoTT to labels my dataset and I put it into data set folder of CNTK. I also use annotations_helper.py to generate other input files for prepare model training step.
After I create My_DataSet_config.py and change some configuration. I realize that I can not train my data set more than 20 image. Let's say if I train 30 images programs will error like gt_boxes is empty (it's really empty but with some specific images training number it's no longer empty).
So I try to follow some instruction I found on GitHub like the problem is image and annotation files, try to delete the image and run again.
I really done that but it's not solution on my case. If the number of data set for train still not 20 images, I will find the error again with any image. Please take a look. Thank you
Python 3.5
Windows
CNTK 2.7
Here is my data set configuration file.
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Here is my model configuration file.
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Please i need you help concerning my yolov5 training process for object detection!
I try to train my object detection model yolov5 for detecting small object ( scratch). For labelling my images i used roboflow, where i applied some data augmentation and some pre-processing that roboflow offers as a services. when i finish the pre-processing step and the data augmentation roboflow gives the choice for different output format, in my case it is yolov5 pytorch, and roboflow does everything for me splitting the data into training validation and test. Hence, Everything was set up as it should be for my data preparation and i got at the end the folder with data.yaml and the images with its labels, in data.yaml i put the path of my training and validation sets as i saw in the GitHub tutorial for yolov5. I followed the steps very carefully tought.
The problem is when the training start i get nan in the obj and box column as you can see in the picture bellow, that i don't know the reason why, can someone relate to that or give me any clue to find the solution please, it's my first project in computer vision.
This is what i get when the training process starts
This the last message error when the training finish
I think the problem comes maybe from here but i don't know how to fix it, i used the code of yolov5 team as it's in the tuto
The training continue without any problem but the map and precision remains 0 all the process !!
Ps : Here is the link of tuto i followed : https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/wiki/Train-Custom-Data
This is what I would do to troubleshoot it. - Run your code on collab because the environment is proven to work well - Confirm that your labels look good and are setup correctly. Can you checked to ensure the classes look right? In one of the screenshots it looks like you have no labels
Running my code in colab worked successfully and the resulats were good. I think that the problem was in my personnel laptop environment maybe the version of pytorch i was using '1.10.0+cu113', or something else ! If you have any advices to set up my environnement for yolov5 properly i would be happy to take from you guys. many Thanks again to #alexheat
I'm using Yolov5 for my custom dataset too. This problem might be due to the directory misplacement.
And using different version of Pytorch will not be a problem. Anyway you can try using the version they mentioned in 'requirements.txt'
It's better if you run
cd yolov5
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Let me know if this helps.
I am trying to train custom data set that consists of currency. i followed a youtube tutorial, made the same folder structure.
I am using google colab for free gpu and darknet. everytime i run data for training it finishes within seconds without any error and the final output says "608 x 608 create 6 permanent cpu threads"
the tutorial i followed shows the training of dataset but mine is keep getting stuck at this message.
I'm using yolov3 to train my dataset, followed every step of changing things in makefile. Also the train.txt and test.txt files stays empty too. (sorry for my bad english)
Below attached screenshot of the message i get when i try to train my model.
SOLVED : the issue was my train.txt file was empty because it wasn’t getting any image paths, soo i changed absolute path of my images folder to relative path and it saved all the images paths in train.txt file which resulted in activation of data training(sorry for my bad english)
I am trying to modify a tensorflow project so that it becomes compatible with TPU.
For this, I started with the code explained on this site.
Here COCO dataset is downloaded and first its features are extracted using InceptionV3 model.
I wanted to modify this code so that it supports TPU.
For this, I added the mandatory code for TPU as per this link.
Withe TPU strategy scope, I created the InceptionV3 model using keras library and loaded model with ImageNet weights as per existing code.
Now, since TPU needs data to be stored on Google Cloud storage, I created a tf records file using tf.Example with the help of this link.
Now, I tried to create this file in several ways so that it will have the data that TPU will find through TFRecordDataset.
At first I directly added image data and image path to the file and uploaded it to GCP bucket but while reading this data, I realized that this image data is not useful as it does not contain shape/size information which it will need and I had not resized it to the required dimension before storage. This file size became 2.5GB which was okay.
Then I thought lets only keep image path at cloud, so I created another tf records file with only image path, then I thought that this may not be an optimized code as TPU will have to open the image individually resize it to 299,299 and then feed to model and it will be better if I have image data through .map() function inside TFRecordDataset, so I again tried, this time by using this link, by storing R, G and B along with image path inside tf records file.
However, now I see that the size of tf records file is abnormally large, like some 40-45GB and ultimately, I stopped the execution as my memory was getting filled up on Google Colab TPU.
The original size of COCO dataset is not that large. It almost like 13GB.. and from that the dataset is being created with only first 30,000 records. so 40GB looks weird number.
May I know what is the problem with this way of feature storage? Is there any better way to store image data in TF records file and then extract through TFRecordDataset.
I think the COCO dataset processed as TFRecords should be around 24-25 GB on GCS. Note that TFRecords aren't meant to act as a form of compression, they represent data as protobufs so it can be optimally loaded into TensorFlow programs.
You might have more success if you refer to: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/coco-setup (corresponding script can be found here) for converting COCO (or a subset) into TFRecords.
Furthermore, we have implemented detection models for COCO using TF2/Keras optimized for GPU/TPU here which you might find useful for optimal input pipelines. An example tutorial can be found here. Thanks!
I've been following this tutorial on the Tensorflow Object Detection API, and I've successfully trained my own object detection model using Google's Cloud TPUs.
However, the problem is that on Tensorboard, the plots I'm seeing only have 2 data points each (so it just plots a straight line), like this:
...whereas I want to see more "granular" plots like these below, which are much more detailed:
The tutorial I've been following acknowledges that this issue is caused by the fact that TPU training requires very few steps to train:
Note that these graphs only have 2 points plotted since the model
trains quickly in very few steps (if you’ve used TensorBoard before
you may be used to seeing more of a curve here)
I tried adding save_checkpoints_steps=50 in the file model_tpu_main.py (see code fragment below), and when I re-ran training, I was able to get a more granular plot, with 1 data point every 300 steps or so.
config = tf.contrib.tpu.RunConfig(
# I added this line below:
save_checkpoints_steps=50,
master=tpu_grpc_url,
evaluation_master=tpu_grpc_url,
model_dir=FLAGS.model_dir,
tpu_config=tf.contrib.tpu.TPUConfig(
iterations_per_loop=FLAGS.iterations_per_loop,
num_shards=FLAGS.num_shards))
However, my training job is actually saving a checkpoint every 100 steps, rather than every 300 steps. Looking at the logs, my evaluation job is running every 300 steps. Is there a way I can make my evaluation job run every 100 steps (whenever there's a new checkpoint) so that I can get more granular plots on Tensorboard?
Code which addresses this issue is explained by a technical lead for the Google cloud platform in a Medium blogpost. Alternatively go directly to the Github code.
The train_and_evaluate function of 81 lines defines an TPUEstimator, train_input_fn and eval_input_fn. Then it iterates to the training steps and calls estimator.train and estimator.evaluate in each iteration. The metrics can be defined in the model_fn, which is called image_classifier. Note that it currently has no effect to add tf.summary calls in the model functions since the TPU does not support it:
"TensorBoard summaries are a great way see inside your model. A minimal set of basic summaries are automatically recorded by the TPUEstimator, to event files in the model_dir. Custom summaries, however, are currently unsupported when training on a Cloud TPU. So while the TPUEstimator will still run locally with summaries, it will fail if used on a TPU." (source)
If summaries are important it might be more convenient to switch to training on GPU.
Personally I think writing this code is quite a hassle for something which should be handled by the API. Please update this answer if better solutions exist! I'm looking forward to it.
Set save_summary_steps in RunConfig to 100, so you get the statistics you want
Also iterations_per_loop to 100 so that the training doesn't go more steps
p.s. I hope you realize that checkpointing is very slow. You are probably raising the cost of your job just for the sake of a pretty graph :)
You can try adding throttle_secs=100 to the EvalSpecs constructor here. The default is 600 seconds.
I am very new to CNTK.
I wanted to train a set of images (to detect objects like alcohol glasses/bottles) using CNTK - ResNet/Fast-R CNN.
I am trying to follow below documentation from GitHub; However, it does not appear to be a straight forward procedure. https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Object-Detection-using-Fast-R-CNN
I cannot find proper documentation to generate ROI's for the images with different sizes and shapes. And how to create object labels based on the trained models? Can someone point out to a proper documentation or training link using which I can work on the cntk model? Please see the attached image in which I was able to load a sample image with default ROI's in the script. How do I properly set the size and label the object in the image ? Thanks in advance!
sample image loaded for training
Not sure what you mean by proper documentation. This is an implementation of the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.08083.pdf). Looks like you are trying to generate ROI's. Can you look through the helper functions as documented at the site to parse what you might need:
To run the toy example, make sure that in PARAMETERS.py the datasetName is set to "grocery".
Run A1_GenerateInputROIs.py to generate the input ROIs for training and testing.
Run A2_RunCntk_py3.py to train a Fast R-CNN model using the CNTK Python API and compute test results.
The algo will work on several candidate regions and then generate outputs: one for the classes of objects and another one that generates the bounding boxes for the objects belonging to those classes. Please refer to the code for getting the details of the implementation.
Can someone point out to a proper documentation or training link using which I can work on the cntk model?
You can take a look at my repository on GitHub.
It will guide you through all the steps required to train your own model for object detection and classification with CNTK.
But in short the proper steps should look something like this:
Setup environment
Prepare data
Tag images (ground truth)
Download pretrained model and create mappings for your custom dataset
Run training
Evaluate the model on test set