SETTIING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

  1. Create a virtualenv e.g. using Conda, running Python 3.6
conda create -n nameofEnv python=3.6
  1. Activate the env
source activate nameofEnv
  1. Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Create needed dirs
mkdir data/crowdai_train
mkdir data/crowdai_test
mkdir saved_models

DATA

  1. Download train.tar and test.tar from crowdai.org/challenges/1 under 'Datasets'
  2. Extract train.tar into 'data/crowdai_train' and test.tar into 'data/crowdai_test'

USAGE

  1. Run
python train_nn.py modelName

The modelName is either 'alexnet' or 'vgg16'

  1. Wait