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FCOS: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection

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;
In: Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01355 

The full paper is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01355.

Highlights

  • Totally anchor-free: FCOS completely avoids the complicated computation related to anchor boxes and all hyper-parameters of anchor boxes.
  • Better performance: The very simple one-stage detector achieves much better performance (38.7 vs. 36.8 in AP with ResNet-50) than Faster R-CNN.
  • Faster training: With the same hardwares, FCOS also requires less training hours (6.5h vs. 8.8h) than Faster R-CNN.
  • State-of-the-art performance: Our best model based on ResNeXt-64x4d-101 and deformable convolutions achieves 49.0% in AP on COCO test-dev (with multi-scale testing).

Updates

11 September 2019

  • New models with much improved performance are released. The best model achieves 49% in AP on COCO test-dev with multi-scale testing.

8 August 2019

  • FCOS with VoVNet backbones is available at VoVNet-FCOS.

23 July 2019

  • A trick of using a small central region of the BBox for training improves AP by nearly 1 point as shown here.

3 July 2019

  • FCOS with HRNet backbones is available at HRNet-FCOS.

30 June 2019

  • FCOS with AutoML searched FPN (R50, R101, ResNeXt101 and MobileNetV2 backbones) is available at NAS-FCOS.

17 May 2019

Required hardware

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.

Installation

Testing-only installation

For users who only want to use FCOS as an object detector in their projects, they can install it by pip. To do so, run:

pip install torch  # install pytorch if you do not have it
pip install fcos
# run this command line for a demo 
fcos https://github.com/tianzhi0549/FCOS/raw/master/demo/images/COCO_val2014_000000000885.jpg

Please check out here for the interface usage.

For a complete installation

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.

A quick demo

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/ZSAqNJB96hA71Yf/download -O FCOS_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x.pth
python demo/fcos_demo.py

Inference

The inference command line on coco minival split:

python tools/test_net.py \
    --config-file configs/fcos/fcos_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml \
    MODEL.WEIGHT FCOS_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x.pth \
    TEST.IMS_PER_BATCH 4    

Please note that:

  1. If your model's name is different, please replace FCOS_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x.pth with your own.
  2. If you enounter out-of-memory error, please try to reduce TEST.IMS_PER_BATCH to 1.
  3. If you want to evaluate a different model, please change --config-file to its config file (in configs/fcos) and MODEL.WEIGHT to its weights file.
  4. Multi-GPU inference is available, please refer to #78.

For your convenience, we provide the following trained models (more models are coming soon).

ResNe(x)ts:

All ResNe(x)t based models are trained with 16 images in a mini-batch and frozen batch normalization (i.e., consistent with models in maskrcnn_benchmark).

Model Multi-scale training Testing time / im AP (minival) Link
FCOS_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x No 62ms 38.7 download
FCOS_imprv_dcnv2_R_50_FPN_1x No 70ms 42.3 download
FCOS_imprv_R_101_FPN_2x Yes 76ms 43.0 download
FCOS_imprv_dcnv2_R_101_FPN_2x Yes 89ms 45.6 download
FCOS_imprv_X_101_32x8d_FPN_2x Yes 130ms 44.0 download
FCOS_imprv_dcnv2_X_101_32x8d_FPN_2x Yes 157ms 46.4 download
FCOS_imprv_X_101_64x4d_FPN_2x Yes 133ms 44.7 download
FCOS_imprv_dcnv2_X_101_64x4d_FPN_2x Yes 160ms 46.6 download

Note that imprv denotes improvements in our paper Table 3. These almost cost-free changes improve the performance by ~1.5% in total. Thus, we highly recommend to use them. The following are the original models presented in our initial paper.

Model Multi-scale training Testing time / im AP (minival) AP (test-dev) Link
FCOS_R_50_FPN_1x No 64ms 37.1 37.4 download
FCOS_R_101_FPN_2x Yes 78ms 41.4 41.5 download
FCOS_X_101_32x8d_FPN_2x Yes 132ms 42.5 42.7 download
FCOS_X_101_64x4d_FPN_2x Yes 135ms 43.0 43.2 download

MobileNets:

We update batch normalization for MobileNet based models. If you want to use SyncBN, please install pytorch 1.1 or later.

Model Training batch size Multi-scale training Testing time / im AP (minival) Link
FCOS_syncbn_bs32_c128_MNV2_FPN_1x 32 No 45ms 30.9 download
FCOS_syncbn_bs32_MNV2_FPN_1x 32 No 52ms 33.1 download
FCOS_bn_bs16_MNV2_FPN_1x 16 No 52ms 31.0 download

[1] 1x and 2x mean the model is trained for 90K and 180K iterations, respectively.
[2] All results are obtained with a single model and without any test time data augmentation such as multi-scale, flipping and etc..
[3] c128 denotes the model has 128 (instead of 256) channels in towers (i.e., MODEL.RESNETS.BACKBONE_OUT_CHANNELS in config).
[4] dcnv2 denotes deformable convolutional networks v2. Note that for ResNet based models, we apply deformable convolutions from stage c3 to c5 in backbones. For ResNeXt based models, only stage c4 and c5 use deformable convolutions. All models use deformable convolutions in the last layer of detector towers.
[5] The model FCOS_imprv_dcnv2_X_101_64x4d_FPN_2x with multi-scale testing achieves 49.0% in AP on COCO test-dev. Please use TEST.BBOX_AUG.ENABLED True to enable multi-scale testing.

Training

The following command line will train FCOS_imprv_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 \
    --config-file configs/fcos/fcos_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml \
    DATALOADER.NUM_WORKERS 2 \
    OUTPUT_DIR training_dir/fcos_imprv_R_50_FPN_1x

Note that:

  1. If you want to use fewer GPUs, please change --nproc_per_node to the number of GPUs. No other settings need to be changed. The total batch size does not depends on nproc_per_node. If you want to change the total batch size, please change SOLVER.IMS_PER_BATCH in configs/fcos/fcos_R_50_FPN_1x.yaml.
  2. The models will be saved into OUTPUT_DIR.
  3. If you want to train FCOS with other backbones, please change --config-file.
  4. If you want to train FCOS on your own dataset, please follow this instruction #54.
  5. Now, training with 8 GPUs and 4 GPUs can have the same performance. Previous performance gap was because we did not synchronize num_pos between GPUs when computing loss.

Contributing to the project

Any pull requests or issues are welcome.

Citations

Please consider citing our paper in your publications if the project helps your research. BibTeX reference is as follows.

@inproceedings{tian2019fcos,
  title   =  {{FCOS}: Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection},
  author  =  {Tian, Zhi and Shen, Chunhua and Chen, Hao and He, Tong},
  booktitle =  {Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year    =  {2019}
}

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank @yqyao for the tricks of center sampling and GIoU. We also thank @bearcatt for his suggestion of positioning the center-ness branch with box regression (refer to #89).

License

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.

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