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# Quick Start

This tutorial fine-tunes a tiny dataset by pretrained detection model for users to get a model and learn PaddleDetection quickly. The model can be trained in around 20min with good performance.

- **Note: before started, need to specifiy the GPU device as follows.**

```bash
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0
```

## Data Preparation

Dataset refers to [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/mbkinaci/fruit-images-for-object-detection), which contains 240 images in train dataset and 60 images in test dataset. Data categories are apple, orange and banana. Download [here](https://dataset.bj.bcebos.com/PaddleDetection_demo/fruit-detection.tar) and uncompress the dataset after download, script for data preparation is located at [download_fruit.py](../../dataset/fruit/download_fruit.py). Command is as follows:

```bash
python dataset/fruit/download_fruit.py
```

Training:

```bash
python -u tools/train.py -c configs/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.yml --eval
```

Use `yolov3_mobilenet_v1` to fine-tune the model from COCO dataset.

Meanwhile, loss and mAP can be observed on VisualDL by set `--use_vdl` and `--vdl_log_dir`. But note  Python version required >= 3.5 for VisualDL.

```bash
python -u tools/train.py -c configs/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.yml \
                        --use_vdl=True \
                        --vdl_log_dir=vdl_fruit_dir/scalar \
                        --eval
```

Then observe the loss and mAP curve through VisualDL command:

```bash
visualdl --logdir vdl_fruit_dir/scalar/ --host <host_IP> --port <port_num>
```

Result on VisualDL is shown below:

![](../images/visualdl_fruit.jpg)

Model can be downloaded [here](https://paddlemodels.bj.bcebos.com/object_detection/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.tar)

Evaluation:

```bash
python -u tools/eval.py -c configs/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.yml
```

Inference:

```bash
python -u tools/infer.py -c configs/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.yml \
                         -o weights=https://paddlemodels.bj.bcebos.com/object_detection/yolov3_mobilenet_v1_fruit.tar \
                         --infer_img=demo/orange_71.jpg
```

Inference images are shown below:

![](../../demo/orange_71.jpg)

![](../images/orange_71_detection.jpg)

For detailed infomation of training and evalution, please refer to [GETTING_STARTED.md](GETTING_STARTED.md).