Tensorflow implementation of SqueezeDet (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.01051.pdf) based on the official implementation (https://github.com/BichenWuUCB/squeezeDet), trained on the KITTI dataset (http://www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti/).

• Youtube video of results (https://youtu.be/5BBwjvlUULI):

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• The results in the video can obviously be improved, but because of limited computing resources (personally funded Azure VM) I did not perform any further hyperparameter tuning.

preprocess_data.py:

• ASSUMES: that all KITTI training images have been placed in data_dir/KITTI/data_object/training/image_2, that all corresponding labels have been placed in data_dir/KITTI/data_object/training/label_2 and that data_dir/KITTI/data_tracking/testing/image_02 contains the 0000, 0001, 0004 and 0012 sequence directories.
• DOES: script for performing all necessary preprocessing of images and labels.

model.py:

• ASSUMES: that preprocessing_data.py has already been run (or at least that caffemodel_weights.pkl has been placed in 2D_detection/data).
• DOES: contains the SqueezeDet_model class.

utilities.py:

• ASSUMES: -
• DOES: contains a number of functions used in different parts of the project.

train.py:

• ASSUMES: that preprocessing_data.py has already been run.
• DOES: script for training the model.

run_on_KITTI_sequence.py:

• ASSUMES: that preprocessing_data.py has already been run.
• DOES: runs a model checkpoint (set in line 45) on all frames in a KITTI test sequence (set in line 28) and creates a video of the result.

• The SqueezeNet network was initialized with the pretrained model in https://github.com/DeepScale/SqueezeNet/tree/master/SqueezeNet_v1.0 (squeezenet_v1.0.caffemodel and deploy.prototxt). To load these weights into TensorFlow, one needs to have pycaffe installed (must be able to run "import caffe"). Run get_caffemodel_weights in utilities.py and save the output as caffemodel_weights.pkl in 2D_detection/data using cPickle. These files (caffemodel_weights.pkl, squeezenet_v1.0.caffemodel and deploy.prototxt) are also included in 2D_detection/data in the repo.

• Batch size: 32.

• For all other hyperparameters I used the same values as in the paper.

• Training loss:

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• Validation loss:

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• The results in the video above was obtained with the model at epoch 58, for which a checkpoint is included in 2D_detection/training_logs/best_model in the repo.

To train the model, I used an NC6 virtual machine on Microsoft Azure. Below I have listed what I needed to do in order to get started, and some things I found useful. For reference, my username was 'fregu856':

• Download KITTI (data_object_image_2.zip and data_object_label_2.zip).

• Install docker-ce:

• • $ curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
• • $ sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
• • $ sudo apt-get update
• • $ sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce

• Install CUDA drivers (see "Install CUDA drivers for NC VMs" in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/n-series-driver-setup):

• • $ CUDA_REPO_PKG=cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
• • $ wget -O /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG} http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
• • $ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
• • $ rm -f /tmp/${CUDA_REPO_PKG}
• • $ sudo apt-get update
• • $ sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers
• • Reboot the VM

• Install nvidia-docker:

• • $ wget -P /tmp https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/releases/download/v1.0.1/nvidia-docker_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb
• • $ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/nvidia-docker*.deb && rm /tmp/nvidia-docker*.deb
• • $ sudo nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda nvidia-smi

• Download the latest TensorFlow docker image with GPU support (tensorflow 1.3):

• • $ sudo docker pull tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-gpu

• Create start_docker_image.sh containing:

#!/bin/bash

# DEFAULT VALUES
GPUIDS="0"
NAME="fregu856_GPU"


NV_GPU="$GPUIDS" nvidia-docker run -it --rm \
        -p 5584:5584 \
        --name "$NAME""$GPUIDS" \
        -v /home/fregu856:/root/ \
        tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-gpu bash

• /root/ will now be mapped to /home/fregu856 (i.e., $ cd -- takes you to the regular home folder).

• To start the image:

• • $ sudo sh start_docker_image.sh

• To commit changes to the image:

• • Open a new terminal window.
• • $ sudo docker commit fregu856_GPU0 tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-gpu

• To stop the image when it’s running:

• • $ sudo docker stop fregu856_GPU0

• To exit the image without killing running code:

• • Ctrl-P + Q

• To get back into a running image:

• • $ sudo docker attach fregu856_GPU0

• To open more than one terminal window at the same time:

• • $ sudo docker exec -it fregu856_GPU0 bash

• To install the needed software inside the docker image:

• • $ apt-get update
• • $ apt-get install nano
• • $ apt-get install sudo
• • $ apt-get install wget
• • $ sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev python-opencv
• • Commit changes to the image (otherwise, the installed packages will be removed at exit!)