The overall network architecture of YOLOv3 is show below:
And we use ResNet18 as the backbone of YOLOv3_ResNet18. The architecture of ResNet18 has 4 stages. The ResNet architecture performs the initial convolution and max-pooling using 7×7 and 3×3 kernel sizes respectively. Afterward, every stage of the network has different Residual blocks (2, 2, 2, 2) containing two 3×3 conv layers. Finally, the network has an Average Pooling layer followed by a fully connected layer.
Note that you can run the scripts based on the dataset mentioned in original paper or widely used in relevant domain/network architecture. In the following sections, we will introduce how to run the scripts using the related dataset below.
Each row is an image annotation which split by space, the first column is a relative path of image, the others are box and class infomations of the format [xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax,class]. `dataset.py` is the parsing script, we read image from an image path joined by the `image_dir`(dataset directory) and the relative path in `anno_path`(the TXT file path), `image_dir` and `anno_path` are external inputs.
- Prepare hardware environment with Ascend processor. If you want to try Ascend , please send the [application form](https://obs-9be7.obs.cn-east-2.myhuaweicloud.com/file/other/Ascend%20Model%20Zoo%E4%BD%93%E9%AA%8C%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E7%94%B3%E8%AF%B7%E8%A1%A8.docx) to ascend@huawei.com. Once approved, you can get the resources.
To train the model, run `train.py` with the dataset `image_dir`, `anno_path` and `mindrecord_dir`. If the `mindrecord_dir` is empty, it wil generate [mindrecord](https://www.mindspore.cn/tutorial/training/zh-CN/master/advanced_use/convert_dataset.html) file by `image_dir` and `anno_path`(the absolute image path is joined by the `image_dir` and the relative path in `anno_path`). **Note if `mindrecord_dir` isn't empty, it will use `mindrecord_dir` rather than `image_dir` and `anno_path`.**
The input variables are device numbers, epoch size, mindrecord directory path, dataset directory path, train TXT file path and [hccl json configuration file](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindspore/tree/master/model_zoo/utils/hccl_tools). **It is better to use absolute path.**
Note the results is two-classification(person and face) used our own annotations with coco2017, you can change `num_classes` in `config.py` to train your dataset. And we will suport 80 classifications in coco2017 the near future.
To eval, run `eval.py` with the dataset `image_dir`, `anno_path`(eval txt), `mindrecord_dir` and `ckpt_path`. `ckpt_path` is the path of [checkpoint](https://www.mindspore.cn/tutorial/training/en/master/use/save_model.html) file.
