This project hosts the code for implementing the FCOS algorithm for object detection, as presented in our paper:
FCOS: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection;
Tian Zhi, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen, and Tong He;
arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01355 (2019).
The full paper is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01355.
- Totally anchor-free: FCOS completely avoids the complicated computation related to anchor boxes and all hyper-parameters of anchor boxes.
- Memory-efficient: FCOS uses 2x less training memory footprint than its anchor-based counterpart RetinaNet.
- Better performance: The very simple detector achieves better performance (37.1 vs. 36.8) than Faster R-CNN.
- Faster training and inference: With the same hardwares, FCOS also requires less training hours (6.5h vs. 8.8h) and faster inference speed (71ms vs. 126 ms per im) than Faster R-CNN.
- State-of-the-art performance: Without bells and whistles, FCOS achieves state-of-the-art performances. It achieves 41.5% (ResNet-101-FPN) and 43.2% (ResNeXt-64x4d-101) in AP on coco test-dev.
We use 8 Nvidia V100 GPUs.
But 4 1080Ti GPUs can also train a fully-fledged ResNet-50-FPN based FCOS since FCOS is memory-efficient.
This FCOS implementation is based on maskrcnn-benchmark. Therefore the installation is the same as original maskrcnn-benchmark.
Please check INSTALL.md for installation instructions. You may also want to see the original README.md of maskrcnn-benchmark.
Once the installation is done, you can follow the below steps to run a quick demo.
# assume that you are under the root directory of this project,
# and you have activated your virtual environment if needed.
wget https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/dDeDPBLEAt19Xrl/download -O FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x.pth
python demo/fcos_demo.py
The inference command line on coco minival split:
python tools/test_net.py \
--config-file configs/fcos/fcos_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml \
MODEL.WEIGHT models/FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x.pth \
TEST.IMS_PER_BATCH 4
Please note that:
- If your model's name is different, please replace
models/FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x.pth
with your own. - If you enounter out-of-memory error, please try to reduce
TEST.IMS_PER_BATCH
to 1. - If you want to evaluate a different model, please change
--config-file
to its config file (in configs/fcos) andMODEL.WEIGHT
to its weights file.
For your convenience, we provide the following trained models (more models are coming soon).
Model | Total training mem (GB) | Multi-scale training | Testing time / im | AP (minival) | AP (test-dev) | Link |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x | 29.3 | No | 71ms | 37.1 | 37.4 | download |
FCOS_R_101_FPN_2x | 44.1 | Yes | 74ms | 41.4 | 41.5 | download |
FCOS_X_101_32x8d_FPN_2x | 72.9 | Yes | 122ms | 42.5 | 42.7 | download |
FCOS_X_101_64x4d_FPN_2x | 77.7 | Yes | 140ms | 43.0 | 43.2 | download |
[1] 1x means the model is trained for 90K iterations.
[2] 2x means the model is trained for 180K iterations.
[3] We report total training memory footprint on all GPUs instead of the memory footprint per GPU as in maskrcnn-benchmark.
[4] All results are obtained with a single model and without any test time data augmentation such as multi-scale, flipping and etc..
[5] Our results have been improved since our initial release. If you want to check out our original results, please checkout commit f4fd589.
The following command line will train FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x on 8 GPUs with Synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD):
python -m torch.distributed.launch \
--nproc_per_node=8 \
--master_port=$((RANDOM + 10000)) \
tools/train_net.py \
--skip-test \
--config-file configs/fcos/fcos_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml \
DATALOADER.NUM_WORKERS 2 \
OUTPUT_DIR training_dir/fcos_R_50_FPN_1x
Note that:
- If you want to use fewer GPUs, please reduce
--nproc_per_node
. The total batch size does not depends onnproc_per_node
. If you want to change the total batch size, please changeSOLVER.IMS_PER_BATCH
in configs/fcos/fcos_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml. - The models will be saved into
OUTPUT_DIR
. - If you want to train FCOS with other backbones, please change
--config-file
. - Sometimes you may encounter a deadlock with 100% GPUs' usage, which might be a problem of NCCL. Please try
export NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
before running the training command line.
Any pull requests or issues are welcome.
Please consider citing our paper in your publications if the project helps your research. BibTeX reference is as follows.
@article{tian2019fcos,
title = {{FCOS}: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection},
author = {Tian, Zhi and Shen, Chunhua and Chen, Hao and He, Tong},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01355},
year = {2019}
}
For academic use, this project is licensed under the 2-clause BSD License - see the LICENSE file for details. For commercial use, please contact the authors.