Darknet: Need your advice to train wheat head dataset with YOLOv4

[Twinkle126]

If you have an issue with training - no-detections / Nan avg-loss / low accuracy:
* what command do you use?
* what dataset do you use?
* what Loss and mAP did you get?
* show chart.png with Loss and mAP
* check your dataset - run training with flag -show_imgs i.e. ./darknet detector train ... -show_imgs and look at the aug_...jpg images, do you see correct truth bounded boxes?
* rename your cfg-file to txt-file and drag-n-drop (attach) to your message here
* show content of generated files bad.list and bad_label.list if they exist
* Read How to train (to detect your custom objects) and How to improve object detection in the Readme: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/README.md
* show such screenshot with info

./darknet detector test cfg/coco.data cfg/yolov4.cfg yolov4.weights data/dog.jpg
 CUDA-version: 10000 (10000), cuDNN: 7.4.2, CUDNN_HALF=1, GPU count: 1
 CUDNN_HALF=1
 OpenCV version: 4.2.0
 0 : compute_capability = 750, cudnn_half = 1, GPU: GeForce RTX 2070
net.optimized_memory = 0
mini_batch = 1, batch = 8, time_steps = 1, train = 0
   layer   filters  size/strd(dil)      input                output

Hi @AlexeyAB ,

I am working on a data containing images of wheat fields with bounding boxes for each identified wheat head. Goal is to identify wheat heads. The bounding box detail is given in a csv with respect to each image and one sample image is as below-

The training dataset has total 3422 images and I have prepared the dataset as you mentioned in the repo. In my second attempt I also triedbelow mentioned changes-

But I am getting same training result in both cases- loss is not decreasing so this time I stopped the training in middle

My cfg file is as below-
yolo-obj.txt

I recheck the training with '-show_imgs' flag and getting bounding boxes-

Can you please look into this once and let me know my mistake?
In case you need any detail, let me know that also.

[AlexeyAB]

Loss is normal. Check the mAP.

[Twinkle126]

Ok, I will check with command .\darknet.exe detector train data/obj.data cfg/yolo-obj.cfg yolo-obj_2000.weights -map and let you know the result.

[Twinkle126]

@AlexeyAB , Till now chart is as below with map parameter-

[Twinkle126]

Hi @AlexeyAB ,

Training is completed with map argument-

And chart is as below-

Is it fine?
Can I do anything to improve the accuracy?
yolo-obj.txt

[AlexeyAB]

Your accuracy is good.
If resolution of your images higher than 608x608 then you can set width=704 height=704, then train and use it.

[Twinkle126]

@AlexeyAB Thanks!
I will try with width=704 height=704 and let you know the results.

[Twinkle126]

@AlexeyAB ,
Although image resolotion is 1024 x 1024 yet cannot use either 608 or 704 due to memory error-

subdivisions is already set to 64 in my cfg-file :(

[AlexeyAB]

change random=1 to resize=1.5 in cfg

[Twinkle126]

I have changed random=1 to resize=1.5 in cfg file and image width/height as 704.
With this change training is started :)
I will update you once it is completed.

[dsbyprateekg]

@AlexeyAB
Training is complete now with resize=1.5 parameter.
It took around 36 hours to complete and result is as bellow-

Is the above result fine?

[AlexeyAB]

Yes.
Try to check the mAP with flag ./darknet detector map ... -iou_thresh 0.05 and show screenshot.

[dsbyprateekg]

@AlexeyAB
I ran the command .\darknet.exe detector map data/obj.data cfg/yolo-obj.cfg backup/wheat/yolo-obj_best.weights and got below result-

And with command .\darknet.exe detector map data/obj.data cfg/yolo-obj.cfg backup/wheat/yolo-obj_best.weights -iou_thresh 0.05 got below result-

[AlexeyAB]

AP50 is increased from 90% to 93%
AP05 is increased from 93% to 97.5% (the error dropped from 7% to 2.5%, about 3x times) - this is very good result.

---

If you want to increase accuracy more, just try to train with width=1024 height=1024 in cfg on GPU with more GPU-RAM.

[dsbyprateekg]

Thanks for the confirmation @AlexeyAB
Since I have limited RAM, I will continue my work with this :)

[NitinDatta8]

Hello guys,
Even I am trying to detect wheat heads but my bounding boxes are projected wrong on the image

1. Below I have added the image and its coordinates in the form [class, x-center, y-center, w,h].
2. The cfg file was picked from the darknet repository which I will add below and the weights file was taken from google drive
3. I am training on google colab and I tried the argument -show_imgs and I got the augmented image with bounding boxes which were wrong and it is added below

Can someone please help me
Thank you



[net]

Testing

batch=1

subdivisions=1

Training

batch=32
subdivisions=64
width=704
height=704
channels=3
momentum=0.949
decay=0.0005
angle=0
saturation = 1.5
exposure = 1.5
hue=.1

learning_rate=0.001
burn_in=1000
max_batches = 6000
policy=steps
steps=4800,5400
scales=.1,.1

cutmix=1

mosaic=1

:104x104 54:52x52 85:26x26 104:13x13 for 416

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batch_normalize=1
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stride=1
pad=1
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stride=2
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[shortcut]
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[shortcut]
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[convolutional]
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[shortcut]
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[shortcut]
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[route]
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[convolutional]
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pad=1
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pad=1
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[convolutional]
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SPP

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[maxpool]
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[route]
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[convolutional]
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[convolutional]
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pad=1
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[convolutional]
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[route]
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stride=1
pad=1
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[convolutional]
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[convolutional]
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[convolutional]
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[convolutional]
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[convolutional]
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[upsample]
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[route]
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[convolutional]
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size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[route]
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[convolutional]
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size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
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size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=256
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
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size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
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stride=1
pad=1
filters=256
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=128
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

#

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=256
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
filters=18
activation=linear

[yolo]
mask = 0,1,2
anchors = 12, 16, 19, 36, 40, 28, 36, 75, 76, 55, 72, 146, 142, 110, 192, 243, 459, 401
classes=1
num=9
jitter=.3
ignore_thresh = .7
truth_thresh = 1
scale_x_y = 1.2
iou_thresh=0.213
cls_normalizer=1.0
iou_normalizer=0.07
iou_loss=ciou
nms_kind=greedynms
beta_nms=0.6
max_delta=5

[route]
layers = -4

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=4
pad=1
filters=256
activation=leaky

[route]
layers = -1, -16

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=256
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=512
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=256
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=512
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=256
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=512
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
filters=18
activation=linear

[yolo]
mask = 3,4,5
anchors = 12, 16, 19, 36, 40, 28, 36, 75, 76, 55, 72, 146, 142, 110, 192, 243, 459, 401
classes=1
num=9
jitter=.3
ignore_thresh = .7
truth_thresh = 1
scale_x_y = 1.1
iou_thresh=0.213
cls_normalizer=1.0
iou_normalizer=0.07
iou_loss=ciou
nms_kind=greedynms
beta_nms=0.6
max_delta=5

[route]
layers = -4

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=2
pad=1
filters=512
activation=leaky

[route]
layers = -1, -37

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=512
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=1024
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=512
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=1024
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
filters=512
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
batch_normalize=1
size=3
stride=1
pad=1
filters=1024
activation=leaky

[convolutional]
size=1
stride=1
pad=1
filters=18
activation=linear

[yolo]
mask = 6,7,8
anchors = 12, 16, 19, 36, 40, 28, 36, 75, 76, 55, 72, 146, 142, 110, 192, 243, 459, 401
classes=1
num=9
jitter=.3
ignore_thresh = .7
truth_thresh = 1
random=1
scale_x_y = 1.05
iou_thresh=0.213
cls_normalizer=1.0
iou_normalizer=0.07
iou_loss=ciou
nms_kind=greedynms
beta_nms=0.6
max_delta=5
max=200

[stephanecharette]

Can someone please help me

Help you to do what? You pasted a screenshot of some coordinates. Not much we can do with your screenshot.

Ideas for follow-up questions:

• What command did you run to get those coordinates? Or are these the results of you marking up an image?
• Where is the image?
• How did you get your neural network? Where did you get the .weights and the .cfg file?

[Hwijune]

Have you checked anchor box and ground truth?

batch=32 -> 64
subdivisions=64 -> 32

[NitinDatta8]

[UPDATE]
Hi guys,
I guess I found my mistake...
the class should be in integer and not float I changed the label files and now I tested it is making correct bounding boxes
Thank you