This document covers how to install Detectron, its dependencies (including Caffe2), and the COCO dataset.
- For general information about Detectron, please see
README.md
.
Requirements:
- NVIDIA GPU, Linux, Python2
- Caffe2, various standard Python packages, and the COCO API; Instructions for installing these dependencies are found below
Notes:
- Detectron operators currently do not have CPU implementation; a GPU system is required.
- Detectron has been tested extensively with CUDA 8.0 and cuDNN 6.0.21.
To install Caffe2 with CUDA support, follow the installation instructions from the Caffe2 website. If you already have Caffe2 installed, make sure to update your Caffe2 to a version that includes the Detectron module.
Please ensure that your Caffe2 installation was successful before proceeding by running the following commands and checking their output as directed in the comments.
# To check if Caffe2 build was successful
python2 -c 'from caffe2.python import core' 2>/dev/null && echo "Success" || echo "Failure"
# To check if Caffe2 GPU build was successful
# This must print a number > 0 in order to use Detectron
python2 -c 'from caffe2.python import workspace; print(workspace.NumCudaDevices())'
If the caffe2
Python package is not found, you likely need to adjust your PYTHONPATH
environment variable to include its location (/path/to/caffe2/build
, where build
is the Caffe2 CMake build directory).
Install Python dependencies:
pip install numpy>=1.13 pyyaml>=3.12 matplotlib opencv-python>=3.2 setuptools Cython mock scipy
Install the COCO API:
# COCOAPI=/path/to/clone/cocoapi
git clone https://github.com/cocodataset/cocoapi.git $COCOAPI
cd $COCOAPI/PythonAPI
# Install into global site-packages
make install
# Alternatively, if you do not have permissions or prefer
# not to install the COCO API into global site-packages
python2 setup.py install --user
Note that instructions like # COCOAPI=/path/to/install/cocoapi
indicate that you should pick a path where you'd like to have the software cloned and then set an environment variable (COCOAPI
in this case) accordingly.
Clone the Detectron repository:
# DETECTRON=/path/to/clone/detectron
git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron $DETECTRON
Set up Python modules:
cd $DETECTRON/lib && make
Check that Detectron tests pass (e.g. for SpatialNarrowAsOp test
):
python2 $DETECTRON/tests/test_spatial_narrow_as_op.py
At this point, you can run inference using pretrained Detectron models. Take a look at our inference tutorial for an example. If you want to train models on the COCO dataset, then please continue with the installation instructions.
Detectron finds datasets via symlinks from lib/datasets/data
to the actual locations where the dataset images and annotations are stored. For instructions on how to create symlinks for COCO and other datasets, please see lib/datasets/data/README.md
.
After symlinks have been created, that's all you need to start training models.
Please read the custom operators section of the FAQ
first.
For convenience, we provide CMake support for building custom operators. All custom operators are built into a single library that can be loaded dynamically from Python.
Place your custom operator implementation under lib/ops/
and see tests/test_zero_even_op.py
for an example of how to load custom operators from Python.
Build the custom operators library:
cd $DETECTRON/lib && make ops
Check that the custom operator tests pass:
python2 $DETECTRON/tests/test_zero_even_op.py
We provide a Dockerfile
that you can use to build a Detectron image on top of a Caffe2 image that satisfies the requirements outlined at the top. If you would like to use a Caffe2 image different from the one we use by default, please make sure that it includes the Detectron module.
Build the image:
cd $DETECTRON/docker
docker build -t detectron:c2-cuda9-cudnn7 .
Run the image (e.g. for BatchPermutationOp test
):
nvidia-docker run --rm -it detectron:c2-cuda9-cudnn7 python2 tests/test_batch_permutation_op.py
In case of Caffe2 installation problems, please read the troubleshooting section of the relevant Caffe2 installation instructions first. In the following, we provide additional troubleshooting tips for Caffe2 and Detectron.
Caffe2 comes with performance profiling
support which you may find useful for benchmarking or debugging your operators
(see BatchPermutationOp test
for example usage).
Profiling support is not built by default and you can enable it by setting
the -DUSE_PROF=ON
flag when running Caffe2 CMake.
Sometimes CMake has trouble with finding CUDA and cuDNN dirs on your machine.
When building Caffe2, you can point CMake to CUDA and cuDNN dirs by running:
cmake .. \
# insert your Caffe2 CMake flags here
-DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/cuda/toolkit/dir \
-DCUDNN_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/cudnn/root/dir
Similarly, when building custom Detectron operators you can use:
cd $DETECTRON/lib
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake .. \
-DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/cuda/toolkit/dir \
-DCUDNN_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/cudnn/root/dir
make
Note that you can use the same commands to get CMake to use specific versions of CUDA and cuDNN out of possibly multiple versions installed on your machine.
Caffe2 uses protobuf as its serialization format and requires version 3.2.0
or newer.
If your protobuf version is older, you can build protobuf from Caffe2 protobuf submodule and use that version instead.
To build Caffe2 protobuf submodule:
# CAFFE2=/path/to/caffe2
cd $CAFFE2/third_party/protobuf/cmake
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake .. \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/c2_tp_protobuf \
-Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fPIC"
make install
To point Caffe2 CMake to the newly built protobuf:
cmake .. \
# insert your Caffe2 CMake flags here
-DPROTOBUF_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE=$HOME/c2_tp_protobuf/bin/protoc \
-DPROTOBUF_INCLUDE_DIR=$HOME/c2_tp_protobuf/include \
-DPROTOBUF_LIBRARY=$HOME/c2_tp_protobuf/lib64/libprotobuf.a
You may also experience problems with protobuf if you have both system and anaconda packages installed. This could lead to problems as the versions could be mixed at compile time or at runtime. This issue can also be overcome by following the commands from above.
In case you experience issues with CMake being unable to find the required Python paths when building Caffe2 Python binaries (e.g. in virtualenv), you can try pointing Caffe2 CMake to python library and include dir by using:
cmake .. \
# insert your Caffe2 CMake flags here
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY=$(python2 -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_lib())") \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=$(python2 -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_inc())")
Detectron does not require Caffe2 built with NNPACK support. If you face NNPACK related issues during Caffe2 installation, you can safely disable NNPACK by setting the -DUSE_NNPACK=OFF
CMake flag.
Analogously to the NNPACK case above, you can disable OpenCV by setting the -DUSE_OPENCV=OFF
CMake flag.
If you encounter a COCO API import error due to an undefined symbol, as reported here, make sure that your python versions are not getting mixed. For instance, this issue may arise if you have both system and conda numpy installed.
In case you experience issues with CMake being unable to find the Caffe2 package when building custom operators,
make sure you have run make install
as part of your Caffe2 installation process.
Python modules with common names could result in import conflicts.
For instance, a datasets
module is also found in tensorflow
and could cause an error (e.g. ImportError: cannot import name task_evaluation
)
as discussed here.
If you encounter an import error, please make sure that you are not trying to import the module from another project.