Repo containing config files and training scripts for a sign detector based on a Faster-RCNN object detector.

Unpack the data archive into this directory. The archive contains:

data/
+-- hotspots
|   +-- train
|   |   +-- UUID_index_class.jpg
|   +-- test
|   +-- val
+-- images_annotated
|   +-- UUID.jpg
+-- images_cropped
|   +-- UUID.jpg
+-- hotspots_all.json
+-- hotspots_test_coco.json
+-- hotspots_test.json
+-- hotspots_train_coco.json
+-- hotspots_train.json
+-- hotspots_val_coco.json
+-- hotspots_val.json
+-- signs.txt

This archive must be in the current working directory for the data set registration functions in dsdetectron/pfa.py to work properly.

The config files in configs are standard Detectron2 train/test configuration files. More information here: https://detectron2.readthedocs.io/tutorials/configs.html

Of particular interest are the test NMS and score threshold parameters - feel free to play with those to change results at inference time.

The script train.sh contains an example using the script dsdetectron/train.py, a modification of the default Detectron2 training script.

The scripts dsdetectron/visualize.py and dsdetectron/groundtruth.py contain examples of using trained models in inference. dsdetectron/visualize.py takes a tablet as input and returns an annotated image with predicted boxes drawn and a .npz archive containing confidence scores and individual hotspot images.

dsdetectron/groundtruth.py contains an example of producing predicted hotspots as well as approximate ground-truth labels using the complete sign list. This script loads a single example from the complete validation data, runs inference from a trained model, then extracts hotspot images as well as predicted ground-truth labels from the ground-truth hotspots. This script uses functions defined in dsdetectron/inferenceutils.py to align the predicted boxes with ground-truth boxes. If a box cannot be aligned, its predicted label will be "-1".