// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt /* This example shows how to train a CNN based object detector using dlib's loss_mmod loss layer. This loss layer implements the Max-Margin Object Detection loss as described in the paper: Max-Margin Object Detection by Davis E. King (http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00046). This is the same loss used by the popular SVM+HOG object detector in dlib (see fhog_object_detector_ex.cpp) except here we replace the HOG features with a CNN and train the entire detector end-to-end. This allows us to make much more powerful detectors. It would be a good idea to become familiar with dlib's DNN tooling before reading this example. So you should read dnn_introduction_ex.cpp and dnn_introduction2_ex.cpp before reading this example program. Just like in the fhog_object_detector_ex.cpp example, we are going to train a simple face detector based on the very small training dataset in the examples/faces folder. As we will see, even with this small dataset the MMOD method is able to make a working face detector. However, for real applications you should train with more data for an even better result. */ #include #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace dlib; // The first thing we do is define our CNN. The CNN is going to be evaluated // convolutionally over an entire image pyramid. Think of it like a normal // sliding window classifier. This means you need to define a CNN that can look // at some part of an image and decide if it is an object of interest. In this // example I've defined a CNN with a receptive field of a little over 50x50 // pixels. This is reasonable for face detection since you can clearly tell if // a 50x50 image contains a face. Other applications may benefit from CNNs with // different architectures. // // In this example our CNN begins with 3 downsampling layers. These layers will // reduce the size of the image by 8x and output a feature map with // 32 dimensions. Then we will pass that through 4 more convolutional layers to // get the final output of the network. The last layer has only 1 channel and // the values in that last channel are large when the network thinks it has // found an object at a particular location. // Let's begin the network definition by creating some network blocks. // A 5x5 conv layer that does 2x downsampling template using con5d = con; // A 3x3 conv layer that doesn't do any downsampling template using con3 = con; // Now we can define the 8x downsampling block in terms of conv5d blocks. We // also use relu and batch normalization in the standard way. template using downsampler = relu>>>>>>>>; // The rest of the network will be 3x3 conv layers with batch normalization and // relu. So we define the 3x3 block we will use here. template using rcon3 = relu>>; // Finally, we define the entire network. The special input_rgb_image_pyramid // layer causes the network to operate over a spatial pyramid, making the detector // scale invariant. using net_type = loss_mmod>>>>>>>; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main(int argc, char** argv) try { // In this example we are going to train a face detector based on the // small faces dataset in the examples/faces directory. So the first // thing we do is load that dataset. This means you need to supply the // path to this faces folder as a command line argument so we will know // where it is. if (argc != 2) { cout << "Give the path to the examples/faces directory as the argument to this" << endl; cout << "program. For example, if you are in the examples folder then execute " << endl; cout << "this program by running: " << endl; cout << " ./dnn_mmod_ex faces" << endl; cout << endl; return 0; } const std::string faces_directory = argv[1]; // The faces directory contains a training dataset and a separate // testing dataset. The training data consists of 4 images, each // annotated with rectangles that bound each human face. The idea is // to use this training data to learn to identify human faces in new // images. // // Once you have trained an object detector it is always important to // test it on data it wasn't trained on. Therefore, we will also load // a separate testing set of 5 images. Once we have a face detector // created from the training data we will see how well it works by // running it on the testing images. // // So here we create the variables that will hold our dataset. // images_train will hold the 4 training images and face_boxes_train // holds the locations of the faces in the training images. So for // example, the image images_train[0] has the faces given by the // rectangles in face_boxes_train[0]. std::vector> images_train, images_test; std::vector> face_boxes_train, face_boxes_test; // Now we load the data. These XML files list the images in each dataset // and also contain the positions of the face boxes. Obviously you can use // any kind of input format you like so long as you store the data into // images_train and face_boxes_train. But for convenience dlib comes with // tools for creating and loading XML image datasets. Here you see how to // load the data. To create the XML files you can use the imglab tool which // can be found in the tools/imglab folder. It is a simple graphical tool // for labeling objects in images with boxes. To see how to use it read the // tools/imglab/README.txt file. load_image_dataset(images_train, face_boxes_train, faces_directory+"/training.xml"); load_image_dataset(images_test, face_boxes_test, faces_directory+"/testing.xml"); cout << "num training images: " << images_train.size() << endl; cout << "num testing images: " << images_test.size() << endl; // The MMOD algorithm has some options you can set to control its behavior. However, // you can also call the constructor with your training annotations and a "target // object size" and it will automatically configure itself in a reasonable way for your // problem. Here we are saying that faces are still recognizably faces when they are // 40x40 pixels in size. You should generally pick the smallest size where this is // true. Based on this information the mmod_options constructor will automatically // pick a good sliding window width and height. It will also automatically set the // non-max-suppression parameters to something reasonable. For further details see the // mmod_options documentation. mmod_options options(face_boxes_train, 40,40); // The detector will automatically decide to use multiple sliding windows if needed. // For the face data, only one is needed however. cout << "num detector windows: "<< options.detector_windows.size() << endl; for (auto& w : options.detector_windows) cout << "detector window width by height: " << w.width << " x " << w.height << endl; cout << "overlap NMS IOU thresh: " << options.overlaps_nms.get_iou_thresh() << endl; cout << "overlap NMS percent covered thresh: " << options.overlaps_nms.get_percent_covered_thresh() << endl; // Now we are ready to create our network and trainer. net_type net(options); // The MMOD loss requires that the number of filters in the final network layer equal // options.detector_windows.size(). So we set that here as well. net.subnet().layer_details().set_num_filters(options.detector_windows.size()); dnn_trainer trainer(net); trainer.set_learning_rate(0.1); trainer.be_verbose(); trainer.set_synchronization_file("mmod_sync", std::chrono::minutes(5)); trainer.set_iterations_without_progress_threshold(300); // Now let's train the network. We are going to use mini-batches of 150 // images. The images are random crops from our training set (see // random_cropper_ex.cpp for a discussion of the random_cropper). std::vector> mini_batch_samples; std::vector> mini_batch_labels; random_cropper cropper; cropper.set_chip_dims(200, 200); // Usually you want to give the cropper whatever min sizes you passed to the // mmod_options constructor, which is what we do here. cropper.set_min_object_size(40,40); dlib::rand rnd; // Run the trainer until the learning rate gets small. This will probably take several // hours. while(trainer.get_learning_rate() >= 1e-4) { cropper(150, images_train, face_boxes_train, mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); // We can also randomly jitter the colors and that often helps a detector // generalize better to new images. for (auto&& img : mini_batch_samples) disturb_colors(img, rnd); trainer.train_one_step(mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); } // wait for training threads to stop trainer.get_net(); cout << "done training" << endl; // Save the network to disk net.clean(); serialize("mmod_network.dat") << net; // Now that we have a face detector we can test it. The first statement tests it // on the training data. It will print the precision, recall, and then average precision. // This statement should indicate that the network works perfectly on the // training data. cout << "training results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_train, face_boxes_train) << endl; // However, to get an idea if it really worked without overfitting we need to run // it on images it wasn't trained on. The next line does this. Happily, // this statement indicates that the detector finds most of the faces in the // testing data. cout << "testing results: " << test_object_detection_function(net, images_test, face_boxes_test) << endl; // If you are running many experiments, it's also useful to log the settings used // during the training experiment. This statement will print the settings we used to // the screen. cout << trainer << cropper << endl; // Now lets run the detector on the testing images and look at the outputs. image_window win; for (auto&& img : images_test) { pyramid_up(img); auto dets = net(img); win.clear_overlay(); win.set_image(img); for (auto&& d : dets) win.add_overlay(d); cin.get(); } return 0; // Now that you finished this example, you should read dnn_mmod_train_find_cars_ex.cpp, // which is a more advanced example. It discusses many issues surrounding properly // setting the MMOD parameters and creating a good training dataset. } catch(std::exception& e) { cout << e.what() << endl; }