Object Detection - Quick Start¶
Object detection is the process of identifying and localizing objects in an image and is an important task in computer vision. Follow this tutorial to learn how to use AutoGluon for object detection.
Tip: If you are new to AutoGluon, review Image Prediction - Quick Start first to learn the basics of the AutoGluon API.
Our goal is to detect motorbike in images by YOLOv3 model. A tiny dataset is collected from VOC dataset, which only contains the motorbike category. The model pretrained on the COCO dataset is used to fine-tune our small dataset. With the help of AutoGluon, we are able to try many models with different hyperparameters automatically, and return the best one as our final model.
To start, import ObjectDetector:
from autogluon.vision import ObjectDetector
/var/lib/jenkins/miniconda3/envs/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gluoncv/__init__.py:40: UserWarning: Both mxnet==1.7.0 and torch==1.10.2+cu102 are installed. You might encounter increased GPU memory footprint if both framework are used at the same time.
warnings.warn(f'Both mxnet=={mx.__version__} and torch=={torch.__version__} are installed. '
Tiny_motorbike Dataset¶
We collect a toy dataset for detecting motorbikes in images. From the VOC dataset, images are randomly selected for training, validation, and testing - 120 images for training, 50 images for validation, and 50 for testing. This tiny dataset follows the same format as VOC.
Using the commands below, we can download this dataset, which is only
23M. The name of unzipped folder is called tiny_motorbike. Anyway,
the task dataset helper can perform the download and extraction
automatically, and load the dataset according to the detection formats.
url = 'https://autogluon.s3.amazonaws.com/datasets/tiny_motorbike.zip'
dataset_train = ObjectDetector.Dataset.from_voc(url, splits='trainval')
tiny_motorbike/
├── Annotations/
├── ImageSets/
└── JPEGImages/
Fit Models by AutoGluon¶
In this section, we demonstrate how to apply AutoGluon to fit our detection models. We use mobilenet as the backbone for the YOLOv3 model. Two different learning rates are used to fine-tune the network. The best model is the one that obtains the best performance on the validation dataset. You can also try using more networks and hyperparameters to create a larger searching space.
We fit a classifier using AutoGluon as follows. In each experiment
(one trial in our searching space), we train the model for 5 epochs to
avoid bursting our tutorial runtime.
time_limit = 60*30 # at most 0.5 hour
detector = ObjectDetector()
hyperparameters = {'epochs': 5, 'batch_size': 8}
hyperparameter_tune_kwargs={'num_trials': 2}
detector.fit(dataset_train, time_limit=time_limit, hyperparameters=hyperparameters, hyperparameter_tune_kwargs=hyperparameter_tune_kwargs)
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WARNING: ObjectDetector is deprecated as of v0.4.0 and may contain various bugs and issues!
In a future release ObjectDetector may be entirely reworked to use Torch as a backend.
This future change will likely be API breaking.Users should ensure they update their code that depends on ObjectDetector when upgrading to future AutoGluon releases.
For more information, refer to ObjectDetector refactor GitHub issue: https://github.com/awslabs/autogluon/issues/1559
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The number of requested GPUs is greater than the number of available GPUs.Reduce the number to 1
Randomly split train_data into train[151]/validation[19] splits.
Starting HPO experiments
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modified configs(<old> != <new>): {
root.valid.batch_size 16 != 8
root.gpus (0, 1, 2, 3) != (0,)
root.num_workers 4 != 8
root.ssd.data_shape 300 != 512
root.ssd.base_network vgg16_atrous != resnet50_v1
root.train.epochs 20 != 5
root.train.early_stop_baseline 0.0 != -inf
root.train.batch_size 16 != 8
root.train.early_stop_max_value 1.0 != inf
root.train.seed 233 != 637
root.train.early_stop_patience -1 != 10
root.dataset_root ~/.mxnet/datasets/ != auto
root.dataset voc_tiny != auto
}
Saved config to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/workspace/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/docs/_build/eval/tutorials/object_detection/1eb70f5d/.trial_0/config.yaml
Using transfer learning from ssd_512_resnet50_v1_coco, the other network parameters are ignored.
Start training from [Epoch 0]
[Epoch 0] Training cost: 9.027765, CrossEntropy=3.474225, SmoothL1=0.980341
[Epoch 0] Validation:
car=0.853896103896104
boat=nan
dog=nan
person=0.75303381468797
bus=nan
cow=nan
motorbike=0.5505411255411256
pottedplant=nan
chair=nan
bicycle=nan
mAP=0.7191570147083999
[Epoch 0] Current best map: 0.719157 vs previous 0.000000, saved to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/workspace/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/docs/_build/eval/tutorials/object_detection/1eb70f5d/.trial_0/best_checkpoint.pkl
[Epoch 1] Training cost: 8.111258, CrossEntropy=2.682314, SmoothL1=1.145182
[Epoch 1] Validation:
car=0.9292929292929291
boat=nan
dog=nan
person=0.77736641811053
bus=nan
cow=nan
motorbike=0.8137283839155497
pottedplant=nan
chair=nan
bicycle=nan
mAP=0.8401292437730029
[Epoch 1] Current best map: 0.840129 vs previous 0.719157, saved to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/workspace/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/docs/_build/eval/tutorials/object_detection/1eb70f5d/.trial_0/best_checkpoint.pkl
[Epoch 2] Training cost: 8.053984, CrossEntropy=2.474019, SmoothL1=1.066938
[Epoch 2] Validation:
car=0.8170798898071626
boat=nan
dog=nan
person=0.6612226157680703
bus=nan
cow=nan
motorbike=0.8208232445520582
pottedplant=nan
chair=nan
bicycle=nan
mAP=0.7663752500424303
[Epoch 3] Training cost: 8.243925, CrossEntropy=2.344494, SmoothL1=0.990197
[Epoch 3] Validation:
car=0.9090909090909088
boat=nan
dog=nan
person=0.8045675299332498
bus=nan
cow=nan
motorbike=0.8537058179915324
pottedplant=nan
chair=nan
bicycle=nan
mAP=0.855788085671897
[Epoch 3] Current best map: 0.855788 vs previous 0.840129, saved to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/workspace/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/docs/_build/eval/tutorials/object_detection/1eb70f5d/.trial_0/best_checkpoint.pkl
[Epoch 4] Training cost: 8.313311, CrossEntropy=2.099670, SmoothL1=0.934671
[Epoch 4] Validation:
car=0.7893939393939392
boat=nan
dog=nan
person=0.7424378492321076
bus=nan
cow=nan
motorbike=0.8466460225991019
pottedplant=nan
chair=nan
bicycle=nan
mAP=0.7928259370750496
Applying the state from the best checkpoint...
Finished, total runtime is 68.36 s
{ 'best_config': { 'dataset': 'auto',
'dataset_root': 'auto',
'estimator': <class 'gluoncv.auto.estimators.ssd.ssd.SSDEstimator'>,
'gpus': [0],
'horovod': False,
'num_workers': 8,
'resume': '',
'save_interval': 1,
'ssd': { 'amp': False,
'base_network': 'resnet50_v1',
'data_shape': 512,
'filters': None,
'nms_thresh': 0.45,
'nms_topk': 400,
'ratios': ( [1, 2, 0.5],
[1, 2, 0.5, 3, 0.3333333333333333],
[1, 2, 0.5, 3, 0.3333333333333333],
[1, 2, 0.5, 3, 0.3333333333333333],
[1, 2, 0.5],
[1, 2, 0.5]),
'sizes': (30, 60, 111, 162, 213, 264, 315),
'steps': (8, 16, 32, 64, 100, 300),
'syncbn': False,
'transfer': 'ssd_512_resnet50_v1_coco'},
'train': { 'batch_size': 8,
'dali': False,
'early_stop_baseline': -inf,
'early_stop_max_value': inf,
'early_stop_min_delta': 0.001,
'early_stop_patience': 10,
'epochs': 5,
'log_interval': 100,
'lr': 0.001,
'lr_decay': 0.1,
'lr_decay_epoch': (160, 200),
'momentum': 0.9,
'seed': 637,
'start_epoch': 0,
'wd': 0.0005},
'valid': { 'batch_size': 8,
'iou_thresh': 0.5,
'metric': 'voc07',
'val_interval': 1}},
'total_time': 68.36062288284302,
'train_map': 0.8449956687497411,
'valid_map': 0.855788085671897}
<autogluon.vision.detector.detector.ObjectDetector at 0x7f0036d33670>
Note that num_trials=2 above is only used to speed up the tutorial.
In normal practice, it is common to only use time_limit and drop
num_trials. Also note that hyperparameter tuning defaults to random
search.
After fitting, AutoGluon automatically returns the best model among all models in the searching space. From the output, we know the best model is the one trained with the second learning rate. To see how well the returned model performed on test dataset, call detector.evaluate().
dataset_test = ObjectDetector.Dataset.from_voc(url, splits='test')
test_map = detector.evaluate(dataset_test)
print("mAP on test dataset: {}".format(test_map[1][-1]))
tiny_motorbike/
├── Annotations/
├── ImageSets/
└── JPEGImages/
mAP on test dataset: 0.22146353646353648
Below, we randomly select an image from test dataset and show the
predicted class, box and probability over the origin image, stored in
predict_class, predict_rois and predict_score columns,
respectively. You can interpret predict_rois as a dict of (xmin,
ymin, xmax, ymax) proportional to original image size.
image_path = dataset_test.iloc[0]['image']
result = detector.predict(image_path)
print(result)
predict_class predict_score 0 person 0.955148
1 motorbike 0.891927
2 person 0.359573
3 motorbike 0.342348
4 bicycle 0.238320
.. ... ...
72 person 0.021112
73 car 0.021018
74 person 0.020910
75 person 0.020890
76 pottedplant 0.020799
predict_rois
0 {'xmin': 0.3912901282310486, 'ymin': 0.3086361...
1 {'xmin': 0.3253263235092163, 'ymin': 0.4256151...
2 {'xmin': 0.7186536192893982, 'ymin': 0.3776834...
3 {'xmin': 0.0, 'ymin': 0.6418095827102661, 'xma...
4 {'xmin': 0.3234668970108032, 'ymin': 0.4386421...
.. ...
72 {'xmin': 0.8547964692115784, 'ymin': 0.6478415...
73 {'xmin': 0.7535834908485413, 'ymin': 0.3077454...
74 {'xmin': 0.9861015677452087, 'ymin': 0.8627224...
75 {'xmin': 0.7237019538879395, 'ymin': 0.4497309...
76 {'xmin': 0.3234668970108032, 'ymin': 0.4386421...
[77 rows x 3 columns]
Prediction with multiple images is permitted:
bulk_result = detector.predict(dataset_test)
print(bulk_result)
predict_class predict_score 0 person 0.955148
1 motorbike 0.891927
2 person 0.359573
3 motorbike 0.342348
4 bicycle 0.238320
... ... ...
3839 chair 0.030017
3840 person 0.029993
3841 person 0.029729
3842 person 0.029681
3843 person 0.029639
predict_rois 0 {'xmin': 0.3912901282310486, 'ymin': 0.3086361...
1 {'xmin': 0.3253263235092163, 'ymin': 0.4256151...
2 {'xmin': 0.7186536192893982, 'ymin': 0.3776834...
3 {'xmin': 0.0, 'ymin': 0.6418095827102661, 'xma...
4 {'xmin': 0.3234668970108032, 'ymin': 0.4386421...
... ...
3839 {'xmin': 0.82603919506073, 'ymin': 0.104831635...
3840 {'xmin': 0.4611119031906128, 'ymin': 0.2901712...
3841 {'xmin': 0.6784611344337463, 'ymin': 0.3986116...
3842 {'xmin': 0.24255801737308502, 'ymin': 0.069509...
3843 {'xmin': 0.3300044536590576, 'ymin': 0.1047884...
image
0 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
1 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
2 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
3 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
4 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
... ...
3839 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
3840 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
3841 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
3842 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
3843 /var/lib/jenkins/.gluoncv/datasets/tiny_motorb...
[3844 rows x 4 columns]
We can also save the trained model, and use it later.
savefile = 'detector.ag'
detector.save(savefile)
new_detector = ObjectDetector.load(savefile)
/var/lib/jenkins/miniconda3/envs/autogluon-tutorial-object-detection-v3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mxnet/gluon/block.py:1512: UserWarning: Cannot decide type for the following arguments. Consider providing them as input:
data: None
input_sym_arg_type = in_param.infer_type()[0]