/lanenet-lane-detection

Implemention of lanenet model for real time lane detection using deep neural network model https://maybeshewill-cv.github.io/lanenet-lane-detection/

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LaneNet-Lane-Detection

Use tensorflow to implement a Deep Neural Network for real time lane detection mainly based on the IEEE IV conference paper "Towards End-to-End Lane Detection: an Instance Segmentation Approach".You can refer to their paper for details https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05591. This model consists of a encoder-decoder stage, binary semantic segmentation stage and instance semantic segmentation using discriminative loss function for real time lane detection task.

The main network architecture is as follows:

Network Architecture NetWork_Architecture

Installation

This software has only been tested on ubuntu 16.04(x64), python3.5, cuda-9.0, cudnn-7.0 with a GTX-1070 GPU. To install this software you need tensorflow 1.10.0 and other version of tensorflow has not been tested but I think it will be able to work properly in tensorflow above version 1.10. Other required package you may install them by

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Test model

In this repo I uploaded a model trained on tusimple lane dataset Tusimple_Lane_Detection. The deep neural network inference part can achieve around a 50fps which is similar to the description in the paper. But the input pipeline I implemented now need to be improved to achieve a real time lane detection system.

The trained lanenet model weights files are stored in new_lanenet_model_file. You can download the model and put them in folder model/tusimple_lanenet/

You can test a single image on the trained model as follows

python tools/test_lanenet.py --is_batch False --batch_size 1 
--weights_path path/to/your/model_weights_file 
--image_path data/tusimple_test_image/0.jpg

The results are as follows:

Test Input Image

Test Input

Test Lane Mask Image

Test Lane_Mask

Test Lane Binary Segmentation Image

Test Lane_Binary_Seg

Test Lane Instance Segmentation Image

Test Lane_Instance_Seg

Test Lane Instance Embedding Image

Test Lane_Embedding

If you want to test the model on a whole dataset you may call

python tools/test_lanenet.py --is_batch True --batch_size 2 --save_dir data/tusimple_test_image/ret 
--weights_path path/to/your/model_weights_file 
--image_path data/tusimple_test_image/

If you set the save_dir argument the result will be saved in that folder or the result will not be saved but be displayed during the inference process holding on 3 seconds per image. I test the model on the whole tusimple lane detection dataset and make it a video. You may catch a glimpse of it bellow. Tusimple test dataset gif tusimple_batch_test_gif

Train your own model

Data Preparation

Firstly you need to organize your training data refer to the data/training_data_example folder structure. And you need to generate a train.txt and a val.txt to record the data used for training the model.

The training samples are consist of three components. A binary segmentation label file and a instance segmentation label file and the original image. The binary segmentation use 255 to represent the lane field and 0 for the rest. The instance use different pixel value to represent different lane field and 0 for the rest.

All your training image will be scaled into the same scale according to the config file.

Train model

In my experiment the training epochs are 200000, batch size is 8, initialized learning rate is 0.0005 and decrease by multiply 0.1 every 100000 epochs. About training parameters you can check the global_configuration/config.py for details. You can switch --net argument to change the base encoder stage. If you choose --net vgg then the vgg16 will be used as the base encoder stage and a pretrained parameters will be loaded and if you choose --net dense then the dense net will be used as the base encoder stage instead and no pretrained parameters will be loaded. And you can modified the training script to load your own pretrained parameters or you can implement your own base encoder stage. You may call the following script to train your own model

python tools/train_lanenet.py --net vgg --dataset_dir data/training_data_example/

You can also continue the training process from the snapshot by

python tools/train_lanenet.py --net vgg --dataset_dir data/training_data_example/ --weights_path path/to/your/last/checkpoint

You may monitor the training process using tensorboard tools

During my experiment the Total loss drops as follows:
Training loss

The Binary Segmentation loss drops as follows:
Training binary_seg_loss

The Instance Segmentation loss drops as follows:
Training instance_seg_loss

Experiment

The accuracy during training process rises as follows: Training accuracy

Please cite my repo lanenet-lane-detection if you use it.

Recently updates 2018.11.10

Adjust some basic cnn op according to the new tensorflow api. Use the traditional SGD optimizer to optimize the whole model instead of the origin Adam optimizer used in the origin paper. I have found that the SGD optimizer will lead to more stable training process and will not easily stuck into nan loss which may often happen when using the origin code.

I have uploaded a new lanenet model trained on tusimple dataset using the new code here new_lanenet_model_file. You may download the new model weights and update the new code. To update the new code you just need to

git pull origin master

The rest are just the same as which mentioned above. And recently I will release a new model trained on culane dataset.

Recently updates 2018.12.13

Since a lot of user want a automatic tools to generate the training samples from the Tusimple Dataset. I upload the tools I use to generate the training samples. You need to firstly download the Tusimple dataset and unzip the file to your local disk. Then run the following command to generate the training samples and the train.txt file.

python tools/generate_tusimple_dataset.py --src_dir path/to/your/unzipped/file

The script will make the train folder and the test folder. The training samples of origin rgb image, binary label image, instance label image will be automatically generated in the training/gt_image, training/gt_binary_image, training/gt_instance_image folder.You may check it yourself before start the training process.

Pay attention that the script only process the training samples and you need to select several lines from the train.txt to generate your own val.txt file. In order to obtain the test images you can modify the script on your own.

TODO

  • Add a embedding visualization tools to visualize the embedding feature map
  • Add detailed explanation of training the components of lanenet separately.
  • Training the model on different dataset
  • [ ] Adjust the lanenet hnet model and merge the hnet model to the main lanenet model
  • Change the normalization function from BN to GN