Faster RCNN

This project implements Faster RCNN proposed in Ren et al. (2015). The code is completely PyTorch. Every single line of the code is written from scratch (except for the PyTorch's built-in ResNet). The programming style is different from the authors' implementation and other existing implementations, in the sense of improved efficiency and readability.

Installation Guide

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/symphonylyh/Faster_RCNN.git

Pre-trained ResNet101 and PASCAL VOC 2007 Dataset will be automatically downloaded.

Train the network or resume training from last saved model.

python train.py or python train.py --resume

Model checkpoint and training statistics will be saved in /logs. Tensorboard can be used to visualize the training process

tensorboard --logdir=logs

PyTorch Programming Notes

This is my first experience implementing a non-trivial model architecture, so here are some notes/practice for PyTorch programming

• Within layers, we may need to declare new variables. I was using like newTensor = torch.zeros(N,M). It works for CPU execution, however, when running on GPU, it will complain that newTensor is on CPU device thus is not compatible with other GPU variables. To fix this, we can use newTensor = torch.zeros(N,M).to(oldTensor.device) given that oldTensor is a variable on the device we want to move to. This will allow simple inheritance of device info instead of keeping a global variable specifying the correct device.