Caffe: how to run ssd on windows

[zhangyunming]

i want to run ssd on windows ,but it have many bugs, especal the detection_output_layer.cu file

[weiliu89]

It is likely due to the boost library. Unfortunately windows is not supported.

[lqs19881030]

I am a reasearcher from china.I have the same problem.It's no problem that I was transplanted the Linux version of Caffe to windows.And If I want to transplant the ssd to windows,how can i do?can you give me some issues? Thank you!!!

[weiliu89]

SSD uses standard libraries required by Caffe. So it should be a very similar process.

[conner99]

To run SSD on Windows.

1. create your own Windows base fork, BVLC/caffe/tree/windows (or Microsoft/caffe/tree/master)
2. make a "New pull request" to merge the SSD files in your Windows fork
3. add all new SSD source- and include files to Visual Studio
   (the "libcaffe" and "test_all" Project in Solution)
4. add the Nuget package boost_regex-vc120.1.59.0.0
5. fix Windows based errors

[Mudwall]

@conner99 I have parsed the trained 300x300 model successfully in the windows caffe,and the output shape is 1x1x200x7,but the result of confidence is not the same as that I get under SSD of Ununtu,otherwise,the rest results seems ok.Why~

[123chengbo]

Mudwall， will you give me some advice about running SSD on windows？
I have already run windows caffe（Microsoft），but i don’t know how to deal with windows SSD。
I will very appreciate if you response to me，thank you。

[stevewusin]

@Mudwall @conner99 I am trying to run SSD on windows, but The error is so many, And I can't solve all of the problem, Will you give some advice about running SSD on Windows?

[jianan86]

@zhangyunming I met the same problem as you. Have you solved the problem？NVCC compile cu files with boost may lead to problems, I think.

[jianan86]

@conner99 hi, have you compile ssd with cuda on windows successfully？

[Lvhhhh]

@conner99 when i build the libcaffe. i have many errors about the boost. so how do you solve the problem of nuget?can you share the 3rd party with us?

[Mudwall]

@123chengbo I have given it up because it has endless bugs~

[zhubuntu]

@conner99 I can't find Nuget package boost_regex-vc120.1.59.0.0,can you help me?

[weiliu89]

It looks like most people complained about the boost_regex library? The only place that uses boost_regex is in DetectionOutputLayer when the output format is COCO. I will try to replace it with some more standard library. Or you guys could remove it yourself. Sorry for the troubles.