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rtdetr_r18vd

by Peking University PekingU/rtdetr_r18vd

However, we observe that the speed and accuracy of YOLOs are negatively affected by the NMS. Recently, end-to-end Transformer-based detectors (DETRs) have provided an alternative to eliminating NMS.

Parameters20M
Context
Weights80.9 MB
Licenseapache-2.0
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Model Card

By Peking University, published under apache-2.0, revision ac77a11ff017.

However, we observe that the speed and accuracy of YOLOs are negatively affected by the NMS. Recently, end-to-end Transformer-based detectors (DETRs) have provided an alternative to eliminating NMS. Nevertheless, the high computational cost limits their practicality and hinders them from fully exploiting the advantage of excluding NMS. In this paper, we propose the Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR), the first real-time end-to-end object detector to our best knowledge that addresses the above dilemma. We build RT-DETR in two steps, drawing on the advanced DETR: first we focus on maintaining accuracy while improving speed, followed by maintaining speed while improving accuracy.…

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Table of Contents

  1. Model Details
  2. Model Sources
  3. How to Get Started with the Model
  4. Training Details
  5. Evaluation
  6. Model Architecture and Objective
  7. Citation

Model Details

The YOLO series has become the most popular framework for real-time object detection due to its reasonable trade-off between speed and accuracy. However, we observe that the speed and accuracy of YOLOs are negatively affected by the NMS. Recently, end-to-end Transformer-based detectors (DETRs) have provided an alternative to eliminating NMS. Nevertheless, the high computational cost limits their practicality and hinders them from fully exploiting the advantage of excluding NMS. In this paper, we propose the Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR), the first real-time end-to-end object detector to our best knowledge that addresses the above dilemma. We build RT-DETR in two steps, drawing on the advanced DETR: first we focus on maintaining accuracy while improving speed, followed by maintaining speed while improving accuracy. Specifically, we design an efficient hybrid encoder to expeditiously process multi-scale features by decoupling intra-scale interaction and cross-scale fusion to improve speed. Then, we propose the uncertainty-minimal query selection to provide high-quality initial queries to the decoder, thereby improving accuracy. In addition, RT-DETR supports flexible speed tuning by adjusting the number of decoder layers to adapt to various scenarios without retraining. Our RT-DETR-R50 / R101 achieves 53.1% / 54.3% AP on COCO and 108 / 74 FPS on T4 GPU, outperforming previously advanced YOLOs in both speed and accuracy. We also develop scaled RT-DETRs that outperform the lighter YOLO detectors (S and M models). Furthermore, RT-DETR-R50 outperforms DINO-R50 by 2.2% AP in accuracy and about 21 times in FPS. After pre-training with Objects365, RT-DETR-R50 / R101 achieves 55.3% / 56.2% AP. The project page: this https URL.

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  • Developed by: Yian Zhao and Sangbum Choi
  • Funded by: National Key R&D Program of China (No.2022ZD0118201), Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61972217, 32071459, 62176249, 62006133, 62271465), and the Shenzhen Medical Research Funds in China (No. B2302037).
  • Shared by: Sangbum Choi
  • Model type: RT-DETR
  • License: Apache-2.0

Model Sources

  • HF Docs: RT-DETR
  • Repository: https://github.com/lyuwenyu/RT-DETR
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08069
  • Demo: RT-DETR Tracking

How to Get Started with the Model

Use the code below to get started with the model.

import torch
import requests

from PIL import Image
from transformers import RTDetrForObjectDetection, RTDetrImageProcessor

url = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg' 
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

image_processor = RTDetrImageProcessor.from_pretrained("PekingU/rtdetr_r18vd")
model = RTDetrForObjectDetection.from_pretrained("PekingU/rtdetr_r18vd")

inputs = image_processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

results = image_processor.post_process_object_detection(outputs, target_sizes=torch.tensor([image.size[::-1]]), threshold=0.3)

for result in results:
    for score, label_id, box in zip(result["scores"], result["labels"], result["boxes"]):
        score, label = score.item(), label_id.item()
        box = [round(i, 2) for i in box.tolist()]
        print(f"{model.config.id2label[label]}: {score:.2f} {box}")

This should output

sofa: 0.97 [0.14, 0.38, 640.13, 476.21]
cat: 0.96 [343.38, 24.28, 640.14, 371.5]
cat: 0.96 [13.23, 54.18, 318.98, 472.22]
remote: 0.95 [40.11, 73.44, 175.96, 118.48]
remote: 0.92 [333.73, 76.58, 369.97, 186.99]

Training Details

Training Data

The RTDETR model was trained on COCO 2017 object detection, a dataset consisting of 118k/5k annotated images for training/validation respectively.

Training Procedure

We conduct experiments on COCO and Objects365 datasets, where RT-DETR is trained on COCO train2017 and validated on COCO val2017 dataset. We report the standard COCO metrics, including AP (averaged over uniformly sampled IoU thresholds ranging from 0.50-0.95 with a step size of 0.05), AP50, AP75, as well as AP at different scales: APS, APM, APL.

Preprocessing

Images are resized to 640x640 pixels and rescaled with image_mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406] and image_std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225].

Training Hyperparameters

  • Training regime:

Evaluation

Model #Epochs #Params (M) GFLOPs FPS_bs=1 AP (val) AP50 (val) AP75 (val) AP-s (val) AP-m (val) AP-l (val)
RT-DETR-R18 72 20 60.7 217 46.5 63.8 50.4 28.4 49.8 63.0
RT-DETR-R34 72 31 91.0 172 48.5 66.2 52.3 30.2 51.9 66.2
RT-DETR R50 72 42 136 108 53.1 71.3 57.7 34.8 58.0 70.0
RT-DETR R101 72 76 259 74 54.3 72.7 58.6 36.0 58.8 72.1
RT-DETR-R18 (Objects 365 pretrained) 60 20 61 217 49.2 66.6 53.5 33.2 52.3 64.8
RT-DETR-R50 (Objects 365 pretrained) 24 42 136 108 55.3 73.4 60.1 37.9 59.9 71.8
RT-DETR-R101 (Objects 365 pretrained) 24 76 259 74 56.2 74.6 61.3 38.3 60.5 73.5

Model Architecture and Objective

Overview of RT-DETR. We feed the features from the last three stages of the backbone into the encoder. The efficient hybrid encoder transforms multi-scale features into a sequence of image features through the Attention-based Intra-scale Feature Interaction (AIFI) and the CNN-based Cross-scale Feature Fusion (CCFF). Then, the uncertainty-minimal query selection selects a fixed number of encoder features to serve as initial object queries for the decoder. Finally, the decoder with auxiliary prediction heads iteratively optimizes object queries to generate categories and boxes.

Citation

BibTeX:

@misc{lv2023detrs,
      title={DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection},
      author={Yian Zhao and Wenyu Lv and Shangliang Xu and Jinman Wei and Guanzhong Wang and Qingqing Dang and Yi Liu and Jie Chen},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2304.08069},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Model Card Authors

Sangbum Choi
Pavel Iakubovskii

Configuration

Architecture
RTDetrForObjectDetection
Stored precision
float32
Model type
rt_detr

Identity and Version

Repository
PekingU/rtdetr_r18vd
Publisher
Peking University
Task
Object detection
Modality
Image
Library
transformers
Parameters
20M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
ac77a11ff0170a41b771c03264987f8ce2b0d753
First published
2024-05-21
Last updated
2024-07-01

Files and Weights

5 files, 80.9 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 80.9 MB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 80.9 MB
Configuration2 files · 6.1 KB
Documentation1 file · 9.1 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
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model.safetensorsWeights80.9 MB fe87a5a30f5d
config.jsonConfiguration5.3 KB
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration841 B
README.mdDocumentation9.1 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
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Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About rtdetr_r18vd

How much GPU memory does rtdetr_r18vd need?

About 0 GB at 16-bit and 0 GB at 4-bit: the weights (20M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run rtdetr_r18vd on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use rtdetr_r18vd commercially?

Yes. rtdetr_r18vd is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

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