cd $PATH_ROOT/libs/box_utils/cython_utils
python setup.py build_ext --inplace (or make)

cd $PATH_ROOT/libs/box_utils/
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

(1) Modify parameters (such as CLASS_NUM, DATASET_NAME, VERSION, etc.) in $PATH_ROOT/libs/configs/cfgs.py
(2) Add category information in $PATH_ROOT/libs/label_name_dict/lable_dict.py     
(3) Add data_name to $PATH_ROOT/data/io/read_tfrecord.py 

cd $PATH_ROOT\data\io\DOTA
python data_crop.py

cd $PATH_ROOT/data/io/  
python convert_data_to_tfrecord.py --VOC_dir='/PATH/TO/DOTA/' 
                                   --xml_dir='labeltxt'
                                   --image_dir='images'
                                   --save_name='train' 
                                   --img_format='.png' 
                                   --dataset='DOTA'

cd $PATH_ROOT/tools
python multi_gpu_train_r3det.py

cd $PATH_ROOT/tools
python test_dota_r3det.py --test_dir='/PATH/TO/IMAGES/'  
                          --gpus=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7          

cd $PATH_ROOT/output/summary
tensorboard --logdir=.

@article{yang2019r3det,
    title={R3Det: Refined Single-Stage Detector with Feature Refinement for Rotating Object},
    author={Yang, Xue and Liu, Qingqing and Yan, Junchi and Li, Ang and Zhang, Zhiqiang and Yu, Gang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05612},
    year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{xia2018dota,
    title={DOTA: A large-scale dataset for object detection in aerial images},
    author={Xia, Gui-Song and Bai, Xiang and Ding, Jian and Zhu, Zhen and Belongie, Serge and Luo, Jiebo and Datcu, Mihai and Pelillo, Marcello and Zhang, Liangpei},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
    pages={3974--3983},
    year={2018}
}