Label file in tensorflow object detection training - tensorflow

I want to create my own .tfrecord files using tensorflow object detection API and use them for training. The record will be a subset of original dataset so the model will detect only specific categories.
The thing I dont understand and cant find any information about is, how are id`s assigned to labels in label_map.pbtxt during training.
What I do...
Step 1:
assign label_id during creation of the tfrecord file, where I put my own ids:
'image/object/class/label': dataset_util.int64_list_feature(category_ids)
'image/object/class/text': dataset_util.bytes_list_feature(category_names)
Step 2:
create labels file with e.g. two categories:
item { name: "apple" id: 53 display_name: "apple" }
item { name: "broccoli" id: 56 display_name: "broccoli" }
Step 3:
Train the model
After training, there are some objects detected, but with N/A label. When I set the id`s starting from 1 then it shows correct labels.
My questions are:
Why it did not map correctly to label with custom id?
Can the second id have other value than 2? I'm sure I saw skipped ids in labels file for coco dataset.
How to set the id to have custom value, if possible?
Thanks

I had the same problem with my label map. After Googling a bit, I found your question here and also this excerpt from the TensorFlow Object Detection repository:
Each dataset is required to have a label map associated with it. This label map defines a mapping from string class names to integer class Ids. The label map should be a StringIntLabelMap text protobuf. Sample label maps can be found in object_detection/data. Label maps should always start from id 1.
I also checked the source code for label_map_util.py and found this comment:
We only allow class into the list if its id-label_id_offset is
between 0 (inclusive) and max_num_classes (exclusive).
If there are several items mapping to the same id in the label map,
we will only keep the first one in the categories list
So in your example, which only has two classes, valid ID's are 1 and 2. Any higher value will be ignored.

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DeepLabV3, segmentation and classification/detection on coral

I am trying to use DeepLabV3 for image segmentation and object detection/classification on Coral.
I was able to sucessfully run the semantic_segmentation.py example using DeepLabV3 on the coral, but that only shows an image with an object segmented.
I see that it assigns labels to colors - how do i associate the labels.txt file that I made based off of the label info of the model to these colors? (how do i know which color corresponds to which label).
When I try to run the
engine = DetectionEngine(args.model)
using the deeplab model, I get the error
ValueError: Dectection model should have 4 output tensors!This model
has 1.
I guess this way is the wrong approach?
Thanks!
I believe you have reached out to us regarding the same query. I just wanted to paste the answer here for others to reference:
"The detection model usually have 4 output tensors to specifies the locations, classes, scores, and number and detections. You can read more about it here. In contrary, the segmentation model only have a single output tensor, so if you treat it the same way, you'll most likely segfault trying to access the wrong memory region. If you want to do all three tasks on the same image, my suggestion is to create 3 different engines and feed the image into each. The only problem with this is that each time you switch the model, there will likely be data transfer bottleneck for the model to get loaded onto the TPU. We have here an example on how you can run 2 models on a single TPU, you should be able to modify it to take 3 models."
On the last note, I just saw that you added:
how do i associate the labels.txt file that I made based off of the label info of the model to these colors
I just don't think this is something you can do for segmentation model but maybe I'm just confused on your query?
Take object detection model for example, there are 4 output tensors, the second tensor gives you an array of id associates with a certain class that you can map to a a label file. Segmentaion models only give the pixel surrounding an objects.
[EDIT]
Apology, looks like I'm the one confused on segmentation models.
Quote form my college :)
"You are interested to know the name of the label, you can find the corresponding integer to that label from result array in Semantic_segmentation.py. Where result is classification data of each pixel.
For example;
if you print result array in the with bird.jpg as input you would find few pixel's value as 3 which is corresponding 4th label in pascal_voc_segmentation_labels.txt (as indexing starts at 0 )."

Background images in one class object detection

When training a single class object detector in Tensorflow, I am trying to pass instances of images where no signal object exists, such that the model doesn't learn that every image contains at least one instance of that class. E.g. if my signal were cats, id want to pass pictures of other animals/landscapes as background -this could also reduce false positives.
I can see that a class id is reserved in the object detection API (0) for background, but I am unsure how to code this into the TFrecords for my background images - class could be 0 but what would be the bounding box coords? Or do i need a simpler classifier on top of this model to detect if there is a signal in the image or not, prior to detecting position?
Later approach of simple classifier, makes sense. I don't think there is a way to do the first part. You can use check on confidence score as well apart from checking the object is present.
It is good practice to create a dataset with not objects of interest, for the same you need to use the same tools (like - label img) that you have used for adding the boxes, image with no BB wil have xml files with no details of BB but only details of the image. The script create tf record will create the tf record from the xml files, look at the below links for more inforamtion -
Create tf record example -
https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/dataset_tools/create_pet_tf_record.py
Using your own dataset-
https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/g3doc/using_your_own_dataset.md

Unable to get readable class labels for Inception-ResNet-v2 model

I am using Inception-ResNet-v2 pretrained version to classify the images. I need human-readable class labels for this. I found one in following site: https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a.
However, when I try to validate these labels with the images, I find it doesn't map to correct labels. One such instance is I tried to classify "Panda" image- the class label it matches is : "barracouta, snoek" with score - 0.927924 and "giant panda, panda, panda bear, coon bear, Ailuropoda melanoleuca" with score - 0.001053.
Please provide me a source where I can find correct mappings of class label to human-readable text for this model.
https://gist.github.com/yrevar/942d3a0ac09ec9e5eb3a this human readable label works, but initialize the class label list with an "unused background", before loading these labels, as inception resnet v2 model is trained for 1001 classes and this has 1000.

Strict class labels in SVM

I'm using one-vs-all to do a 21-class svm categorization.
I want the label -1 to mean "not in this class" and the label 1 to mean "indeed in this class" for each of the 21 kernels.
I've generated my pre-computed kernels and my test vectors using this standard.
Using easy.py everything went well for 20 of the classes, but for one of them the labels were switched so that all the inputs that should have been labelled with 1 for being in the class were instead labelled -1 and vice-versa.
The difference in that class was that the first vector in the pre-computed kernel was labelled 1, while in all the other kernels the first vector was labelled -1. This suggests that LibSVM relabels all of my vectors.
Is there a way to prevent this or a simple way to work around it?
You already discovered that libsvm uses the label -1 for whatever label it encounters first.
The reason is, that it allows arbitrary labels and changes them to -1 and +1 according to the order in which they appear in the label vector.
So you can either check this directly or you look at the model returned by libsvm.
It contains an entry called Label which is a vector containing the order in which libsvm encountered the labels. You can also use this information to switch the sign of your scores.
If during training libsvm encounters label A first, then during prediction
libsvm will use positive values for assigning object the label A and negative values for another label.
So if you use label 1 for positive class and 0 for negative, then to obtain right output values you should do the following trick (Matlab).
%test_data.y contains 0-s and 1-s
[labels,~,values] = svmpredict(test_data.y, test_data.X, model, ' ');
if (model.Label(1) == 0) % we check which label was encountered by libsvm first
values = -values;
end

How to count objects detected in an image using Tensorflow?

I have trained my custom object detector using faster_rcnn_inception_v2, tested it using object_detection_tutorial.ipynb and it works perfect, I can find bounding boxes for the objects inside the test image, my problem is how can I actually count the number of those bounding boxes or simply I want to count the number of objects detected for each class.
Because of low reputations I can not comment.
As far as I know the object detection API unfortunately has no built-in function for this.
You have to write this function by yourself. I assume you run the eval.py for evaluation!? To access the individual detected objects for each image you have to follow the following chain of scripts:
eval.py -> evaluator.py ->object_detection_evaluation.py -> per_image_evaluation.py
In the last script you can count the detected objects and bounding boxes per image. You just have to save the numbers and sum them up over your entire dataset.
Does this already help you?
I solved this using Tensorflow Object Counting API. We have an example of counting objects in an image using single_image_object_counting.py. I just replaced ssd_mobilenet_v1_coco_2017_11_17 with my own model containing inference graph
input_video = "image.jpg"
detection_graph, category_index = backbone.set_model(MODEL_DIR)