TensorFlow Object Detection API using image crops as training dataset

问题

I want to train a ssd-inception-v2 model from Tensorflow Object Detection API. The training dataset I want to use is a bunch of cropped images with different sizes without bounding boxes, as the crop itself is the bounding boxes.

I followed the create_pascal_tf_record.py example replacing the bounding boxes and classifications portion accordingly to generate the TFRecords as follows:

def dict_to_tf_example(imagepath, label):
    image = Image.open(imagepath)
    if image.format != 'JPEG':
         print("Skipping file: " + imagepath)
         return
    img = np.array(image)
    with tf.gfile.GFile(imagepath, 'rb') as fid:
        encoded_jpg = fid.read()
    # The reason to store image sizes was demonstrated
    # in the previous example -- we have to know sizes
    # of images to later read raw serialized string,
    # convert to 1d array and convert to respective
    # shape that image used to have.
    height = img.shape[0]
    width = img.shape[1]
    key = hashlib.sha256(encoded_jpg).hexdigest()
    # Put in the original images into array
    # Just for future check for correctness

    xmin = [5.0/100.0]
    ymin = [5.0/100.0]
    xmax = [95.0/100.0]
    ymax = [95.0/100.0]
    class_text = [label['name'].encode('utf8')]
    classes = [label['id']]
    example = tf.train.Example(features=tf.train.Features(feature={
        'image/height':dataset_util.int64_feature(height),
        'image/width': dataset_util.int64_feature(width),
        'image/filename': dataset_util.bytes_feature(imagepath.encode('utf8')),
        'image/source_id': dataset_util.bytes_feature(imagepath.encode('utf8')),
        'image/encoded': dataset_util.bytes_feature(encoded_jpg),
        'image/key/sha256': dataset_util.bytes_feature(key.encode('utf8')),
        'image/format': dataset_util.bytes_feature('jpeg'.encode('utf8')),        
        'image/object/class/text': dataset_util.bytes_list_feature(class_text),
        'image/object/class/label': dataset_util.int64_list_feature(classes),
        'image/object/bbox/xmin': dataset_util.float_list_feature(xmin),
        'image/object/bbox/xmax': dataset_util.float_list_feature(xmax),
        'image/object/bbox/ymin': dataset_util.float_list_feature(ymin),
        'image/object/bbox/ymax': dataset_util.float_list_feature(ymax)
    }))

    return example


def main(_):

  data_dir = FLAGS.data_dir
  output_path = os.path.join(data_dir,FLAGS.output_path + '.record')
  writer = tf.python_io.TFRecordWriter(output_path)
  label_map = label_map_util.load_labelmap(FLAGS.label_map_path)
  categories = label_map_util.convert_label_map_to_categories(label_map, max_num_classes=80, use_display_name=True)
  category_index = label_map_util.create_category_index(categories)
  category_list = os.listdir(data_dir)
  gen = (category for category in categories if category['name'] in category_list)
  for category in gen:
    examples_path = os.path.join(data_dir,category['name'])
    examples_list = os.listdir(examples_path)
    for example in examples_list:
        imagepath = os.path.join(examples_path,example)

        tf_example = dict_to_tf_example(imagepath,category)
        writer.write(tf_example.SerializeToString())
 #       print(tf_example)

  writer.close()

The bounding box is hard coded encompassing the whole image. The labels are given accordingly to its corresponding directory. I am using the mscoco_label_map.pbxt for labeling and the ssd_inception_v2_pets.config as base for my pipeline.

I trained and froze the model to use with the jupyter notebook example. However, the final result is a single box surrounding the whole image. Any idea on what went wrong?

回答1:

Object detection algorithms/networks often work by predicting the location of a bounding box as well as the class. For this reason the training data often needs to contain bounding box data. By feeding your model with training data with a bounding box that is always the size of the image then it's likely you'll get garbage predictions out including a box that always outlines the image.

This sounds like a problem with your training data. You shouldn't give cropped images but instead full images/scenes with your object annotated. You're basically training a classifier at this point.

Try training with the correct style of images that are not cropped and see how you get on.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45093955/tensorflow-object-detection-api-using-image-crops-as-training-dataset