Complex YOLOv4

The PyTorch Implementation based on YOLOv4 of the paper: Complex-YOLO: Real-time 3D Object Detection on Point Clouds

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Demo

Features

• Realtime 3D object detection based on YOLOv4
• Support distributed data parallel training
• Tensorboard
• Mosaic/Cutout augmentation for training
• Use GIoU loss of rotated boxes for optimization.
• Use CIoU loss of rotated boxes for optimization.

2. Getting Started

2.1. Requirement

pip install -U -r requirements.txt

For mayavi and shapely libraries, please refer to the installation instructions from their official websites.

2.2. Data Preparation

Download the 3D KITTI detection dataset from here.

The downloaded data includes:

• Velodyne point clouds (29 GB): input data to the Complex-YOLO model
• Training labels of object data set (5 MB): input label to the Complex-YOLO model
• Camera calibration matrices of object data set (16 MB): for visualization of predictions
• Left color images of object data set (12 GB): for visualization of predictions

Please make sure that you construct the source code & dataset directories structure as below.

For 3D point cloud preprocessing, please refer to the previous works:

• VoxelNet-Pytorch
• Complex-YOLOv2
• Complex-YOLOv3

2.3. Complex-YOLO architecture

This work has been based on the paper YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection.

Please refer to several implementations of YOLOv4 using PyTorch DL framework:

• Tianxiaomo/pytorch-YOLOv4
• Ultralytics/yolov3_and_v4
• WongKinYiu/PyTorch_YOLOv4
• VCasecnikovs/Yet-Another-YOLOv4-Pytorch

2.4. How to run

2.4.1. Visualize the dataset (both BEV images from LiDAR and camera images)

cd src/data_process

• To visualize BEV maps and camera images (with 3D boxes), let's execute (the output-width param can be changed to show the images in a bigger/smaller window):

python kitti_dataloader.py --output-width 608

• To visualize mosaics that are composed from 4 BEV maps (Using during training only), let's execute:

python kitti_dataloader.py --show-train-data --mosaic --output-width 608 

By default, there is no padding for the output mosaics, the feature could be activated by executing:

python kitti_dataloader.py --show-train-data --mosaic --random-padding --output-width 608 

• To visualize cutout augmentation, let's execute:

python kitti_dataloader.py --show-train-data --cutout_prob 1. --cutout_nholes 1 --cutout_fill_value 1. --cutout_ratio 0.3 --output-width 608

2.4.2. Inference

python test.py --gpu_idx 0 --pretrained_path <PATH>...

2.4.3. Evaluation

python evaluate.py --gpu_idx 0 --pretrained_path <PATH> --img_size <SIZE> --conf-thresh <THRESH> --nms-thresh <THRESH> --iou-thresh <THRESH>...

(The conf-thresh, nms-thresh, and iou-thresh params can be adjusted. By default, these params have been set to 0.5)

• Evaluate the complex-YOLOv3 model on the validation set:
  Download the trained model from here, then put it to ${ROOT}/checkpoints/complex_yolov3/complex_yolov3.pth and execute:

python evaluate.py --gpu_idx 0 --pretrained_path ../checkpoints/complex_yolov3/complex_yolov3.pth --cfgfile ./config/cfg/complex_yolov3.cfg 

• (Complex-YOLOv4 trained model will be released. Please watch the repo to get notifications for next update.)

• The comparison of this implementation with Complex-YOLOv2, Complex-YOLOv3 (will be updated ASAP).

2.4.4. Training

2.4.4.1. Single machine, single gpu

python train.py --gpu_idx 0 --multiscale_training --batch_size <N> --num_workers <N>...

2.4.4.2. Multi-processing Distributed Data Parallel Training

We should always use the nccl backend for multi-processing distributed training since it currently provides the best distributed training performance.

• Single machine (node), multiple GPUs

python train.py --dist-url 'tcp://127.0.0.1:29500' --dist-backend 'nccl' --multiprocessing-distributed --world-size 1 --rank 0

• Two machines (two nodes), multiple GPUs

First machine

python train.py --dist-url 'tcp://IP_OF_NODE1:FREEPORT' --dist-backend 'nccl' --multiprocessing-distributed --world-size 2 --rank 0

Second machine

python train.py --dist-url 'tcp://IP_OF_NODE2:FREEPORT' --dist-backend 'nccl' --multiprocessing-distributed --world-size 2 --rank 1

To reproduce the results, you can run the bash shell script

./train.sh

Tensorboard

• To track the training progress, go to the logs/ folder and

cd logs/<saved_fn>/tensorboard/
tensorboard --logdir=./

• Then go to http://localhost:6006/:

2.5. List of usage for Bag of Freebies (BoF) & Bag of Specials (BoS) in this implementation

	Backbone	Detector
BoF	[x] Dropblock [x] Random rescale, rotation (global) [x] Mosaic/Cutout augmentation	[x] Cross mini-Batch Normalization [x] Dropblock [x] Random training shapes
BoS	[x] Mish activation [x] Cross-stage partial connections (CSP) [x] Multi-input weighted residual connections (MiWRC)	[x] Mish activation [x] SPP-block [x] SAM-block [x] PAN path-aggregation block [x] GIoU loss [ ] CIoU loss

Contact

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If you find any errors or have any suggestions, please contact me (Email: [email protected]).
Thank you!

Citation

@article{Complex-YOLO,
  author = {Martin Simon, Stefan Milz, Karl Amende, Horst-Michael Gross},
  title = {Complex-YOLO: Real-time 3D Object Detection on Point Clouds},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {arXiv},
}

@article{YOLOv4,
  author = {Alexey Bochkovskiy, Chien-Yao Wang, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao},
  title = {YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {arXiv},
}

Folder structure

${ROOT}
└── checkpoints/    
    ├── complex_yolov2/
    ├── complex_yolov3/
    └── complex_yolov4/
└── dataset/    
    └── kitti/
        ├──ImageSets/
        │   ├── train.txt
        │   └── val.txt
        ├── training/
        │   ├── image_2/ <-- for visualization
        │   ├── calib/
        │   ├── label_2/
        │   └── velodyne/
        └── testing/  
        │   ├── image_2/ <-- for visualization
        │   ├── calib/
        │   └── velodyne/ 
        └── classes_names.txt
└── src/
    ├── config/
    ├── cfg/
        │   ├── complex_yolov3.cfg
        │   ├── complex_yolov3_tiny.cfg
        │   ├── complex_yolov4.cfg
        │   ├── complex_yolov4_tiny.cfg
    │   ├── train_config.py
    │   └── kitti_config.py
    ├── data_process/
    │   ├── kitti_bev_utils.py
    │   ├── kitti_dataloader.py
    │   ├── kitti_dataset.py
    │   ├── kitti_data_utils.py
    │   ├── train_val_split.py
    │   └── transformation.py
    ├── models/
    │   ├── darknet2pytorch.py
    │   ├── darknet_utils.py
    │   ├── model_utils.py
    │   ├── region_loss.py
    │   ├── yolo_layer.py
    │   └── yolov4_model.py
    └── utils/
    │   ├── detection_utils.py
    │   ├── evaluation_utils.py
    │   ├── iou_utils.py
    │   ├── logger.py
    │   ├── misc.py
    │   ├── prediction_utils.py
    │   ├── torch_utils.py
    │   ├── train_utils.py
    │   └── visualization_utils.py
    ├── evaluate.py
    ├── test.py
    ├── test.sh
    ├── train.py
    └── train.sh
├── README.md 
└── requirements.txt

Usage

usage: train.py [-h] [--seed SEED] [--saved_fn FN] [--working-dir PATH]
                [-a ARCH] [--cfgfile PATH] [--pretrained_path PATH]
                [--img_size IMG_SIZE] [--hflip_prob HFLIP_PROB]
                [--cutout_prob CUTOUT_PROB] [--cutout_nholes CUTOUT_NHOLES]
                [--cutout_ratio CUTOUT_RATIO]
                [--cutout_fill_value CUTOUT_FILL_VALUE]
                [--multiscale_training] [--mosaic] [--random-padding]
                [--no-val] [--num_samples NUM_SAMPLES]
                [--num_workers NUM_WORKERS] [--batch_size BATCH_SIZE]
                [--print_freq N] [--tensorboard_freq N] [--checkpoint_freq N]
                [--start_epoch N] [--num_epochs N] [--lr_type LR_TYPE]
                [--lr LR] [--minimum_lr MIN_LR] [--momentum M] [-wd WD]
                [--optimizer_type OPTIMIZER] [--burn_in N]
                [--steps [STEPS [STEPS ...]]] [--world-size N] [--rank N]
                [--dist-url DIST_URL] [--dist-backend DIST_BACKEND]
                [--gpu_idx GPU_IDX] [--no_cuda]
                [--multiprocessing-distributed] [--evaluate]
                [--resume_path PATH] [--conf-thresh CONF_THRESH]
                [--nms-thresh NMS_THRESH] [--iou-thresh IOU_THRESH]

The Implementation of Complex YOLOv4

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --seed SEED           re-produce the results with seed random
  --saved_fn FN         The name using for saving logs, models,...
  --working-dir PATH    The ROOT working directory
  -a ARCH, --arch ARCH  The name of the model architecture
  --cfgfile PATH        The path for cfgfile (only for darknet)
  --pretrained_path PATH
                        the path of the pretrained checkpoint
  --img_size IMG_SIZE   the size of input image
  --hflip_prob HFLIP_PROB
                        The probability of horizontal flip
  --cutout_prob CUTOUT_PROB
                        The probability of cutout augmentation
  --cutout_nholes CUTOUT_NHOLES
                        The number of cutout area
  --cutout_ratio CUTOUT_RATIO
                        The max ratio of the cutout area
  --cutout_fill_value CUTOUT_FILL_VALUE
                        The fill value in the cut out area, default 0. (black)
  --multiscale_training
                        If true, use scaling data for training
  --mosaic              If true, compose training samples as mosaics
  --random-padding      If true, random padding if using mosaic augmentation
  --no-val              If true, dont evaluate the model on the val set
  --num_samples NUM_SAMPLES
                        Take a subset of the dataset to run and debug
  --num_workers NUM_WORKERS
                        Number of threads for loading data
  --batch_size BATCH_SIZE
                        mini-batch size (default: 4), this is the totalbatch
                        size of all GPUs on the current node when usingData
                        Parallel or Distributed Data Parallel
  --print_freq N        print frequency (default: 50)
  --tensorboard_freq N  frequency of saving tensorboard (default: 20)
  --checkpoint_freq N   frequency of saving checkpoints (default: 2)
  --start_epoch N       the starting epoch
  --num_epochs N        number of total epochs to run
  --lr_type LR_TYPE     the type of learning rate scheduler (cosin or
                        multi_step)
  --lr LR               initial learning rate
  --minimum_lr MIN_LR   minimum learning rate during training
  --momentum M          momentum
  -wd WD, --weight_decay WD
                        weight decay (default: 1e-6)
  --optimizer_type OPTIMIZER
                        the type of optimizer, it can be sgd or adam
  --burn_in N           number of burn in step
  --steps [STEPS [STEPS ...]]
                        number of burn in step
  --world-size N        number of nodes for distributed training
  --rank N              node rank for distributed training
  --dist-url DIST_URL   url used to set up distributed training
  --dist-backend DIST_BACKEND
                        distributed backend
  --gpu_idx GPU_IDX     GPU index to use.
  --no_cuda             If true, cuda is not used.
  --multiprocessing-distributed
                        Use multi-processing distributed training to launch N
                        processes per node, which has N GPUs. This is the
                        fastest way to use PyTorch for either single node or
                        multi node data parallel training
  --evaluate            only evaluate the model, not training
  --resume_path PATH    the path of the resumed checkpoint
  --conf-thresh CONF_THRESH
                        for evaluation - the threshold for class conf
  --nms-thresh NMS_THRESH
                        for evaluation - the threshold for nms
  --iou-thresh IOU_THRESH
                        for evaluation - the threshold for IoU