README_en.md

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# PaddleDetection

PaddleDetection is an end-to-end object detection development kit based on PaddlePaddle, which
aims to help developers in the whole development of training models, optimizing performance and
inference speed, and deploying models. PaddleDetection provides varied object detection architectures
in modular design, and wealthy data augmentation methods, network components, loss functions, etc.
PaddleDetection supported practical projects such as industrial quality inspection, remote sensing
image object detection, and automatic inspection with its practical features such as model compression
and multi-platform deployment.

**Now all models in PaddleDetection require PaddlePaddle version 1.7 or higher, or suitable develop version.**

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## Introduction

Features:

- Production Ready:

  Key operations are implemented in C++ and CUDA, together with PaddlePaddle's
highly efficient inference engine, enables easy deployment in server environments.

- Highly Flexible:

  Components are designed to be modular. Model architectures, as well as data
preprocess pipelines, can be easily customized with simple configuration
changes.

- Performance Optimized:

  With the help of the underlying PaddlePaddle framework, faster training and
reduced GPU memory footprint is achieved. Notably, YOLOv3 training is
much faster compared to other frameworks. Another example is Mask-RCNN
(ResNet50), we managed to fit up to 4 images per GPU (Tesla V100 16GB) during
multi-GPU training.

Supported Architectures:

|                     | ResNet | ResNet-vd <sup>[1](#vd)</sup> | ResNeXt-vd | SENet | MobileNet |  HRNet | Res2Net |
| ------------------- | :----: | ----------------------------: | :--------: | :---: | :-------: |:------:|:-----:  |
| Faster R-CNN        |   ✓    |                             ✓ |     x      |   ✓   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| Faster R-CNN + FPN  |   ✓    |                             ✓ |     ✓      |   ✓   |     ✗     |   ✓    |  ✓      |
| Mask R-CNN          |   ✓    |                             ✓ |     x      |   ✓   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| Mask R-CNN + FPN    |   ✓    |                             ✓ |     ✓      |   ✓   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✓      |
| Cascade Faster-RCNN |   ✓    |                             ✓ |     ✓      |   ✗   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| Cascade Mask-RCNN   |   ✓    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✓   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| Libra R-CNN         |   ✗    |                             ✓ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| RetinaNet           |   ✓    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| YOLOv3              |   ✓    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✓     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| SSD                 |   ✗    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✓     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| BlazeFace           |   ✗    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |
| Faceboxes           |   ✗    |                             ✗ |     ✗      |   ✗   |     ✗     |   ✗    |  ✗      |

<a name="vd">[1]</a> [ResNet-vd](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01187) models offer much improved accuracy with negligible performance cost.

More models:

- EfficientDet
- FCOS
- CornerNet-Squeeze
- YOLOv4

More Backbones:

- DarkNet
- VGG
- GCNet
- CBNet

Advanced Features:

- [x] **Synchronized Batch Norm**
- [x] **Group Norm**
- [x] **Modulated Deformable Convolution**
- [x] **Deformable PSRoI Pooling**
- [x] **Non-local and GCNet**

**NOTE:** Synchronized batch normalization can only be used on multiple GPU devices, can not be used on CPU devices or single GPU device.

The following is the relationship between COCO mAP and FPS on Tesla V100 of representative models of each architectures and backbones.

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**NOTE:**
- `CBResNet` stands for `Cascade-Faster-RCNN-CBResNet200vd-FPN`, which has highest mAP on COCO as 53.3% in PaddleDetection models
- `Cascade-Faster-RCNN` stands for `Cascade-Faster-RCNN-ResNet50vd-DCN`, which has been optimized to 20 FPS inference speed when COCO mAP as 47.8%
- The enhanced `YOLOv3-ResNet50vd-DCN` is 10.6 absolute percentage points higher than paper on COCO mAP, and inference speed is nearly 70% faster than the darknet framework
- All these models can be get in [Model Zoo](#Model-Zoo)

## Tutorials

**News:** Documentation:[https://paddledetection.readthedocs.io](https://paddledetection.readthedocs.io)

### Get Started

- [Installation guide](docs/tutorials/INSTALL.md)
- [Quick start on small dataset](docs/tutorials/QUICK_STARTED.md)
- [Train/Evaluation/Inference](docs/tutorials/GETTING_STARTED.md)
- [FAQ](docs/tutorials/FAQ.md)

### Advanced Tutorial

- [Guide to preprocess pipeline and custom dataset](docs/advanced_tutorials/READER.md)
- [Models technical](docs/advanced_tutorials/MODEL_TECHNICAL.md)
- [Introduction to the configuration workflow](docs/advanced_tutorials/CONFIG.md)
- [IPython Notebook demo](demo/mask_rcnn_demo.ipynb)
- [Transfer learning document](docs/advanced_tutorials/TRANSFER_LEARNING.md)
- [Model compression](slim)
    - [Model compression benchmark](slim)
    - [Quantization](slim/quantization)
    - [Model pruning](slim/prune)
    - [Model distillation](slim/distillation)
    - [Neural Architecture Search](slim/nas)
- [Deployment](deploy)
    - [Export model for inference](docs/advanced_tutorials/deploy/EXPORT_MODEL.md)
    - [Python inference](deploy/python)
    - [C++ inference](deploy/cpp)
    - [Inference benchmark](docs/advanced_tutorials/inference/BENCHMARK_INFER_cn.md)

## Model Zoo

- Pretrained models are available in the [PaddleDetection model zoo](docs/MODEL_ZOO.md).
- [Mobile models](configs/mobile/README.md)
- [Anchor free models](configs/anchor_free/README.md)
- [Face detection models](docs/featured_model/FACE_DETECTION_en.md)
- [Pretrained models for pedestrian detection](docs/featured_model/CONTRIB.md)
- [Pretrained models for vehicle detection](docs/featured_model/CONTRIB.md)
- [YOLOv3 enhanced model](docs/featured_model/YOLOv3_ENHANCEMENT.md): Compared to MAP of 33.0% in paper, enhanced YOLOv3 reaches the MAP of 43.6%, and inference speed is improved as well
- [Objects365 2019 Challenge champion model](docs/featured_model/CACascadeRCNN.md)
- [Best single model of Open Images 2019-Object Detction](docs/featured_model/OIDV5_BASELINE_MODEL.md)
- [Practical Server-side detection method](configs/rcnn_enhance/README_en.md): Inference speed on single V100 GPU can reach 20FPS when COCO mAP is 47.8%.


## License
PaddleDetection is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).

## Updates
v0.2.0 was released at `02/2020`, add some models，Upgrade data processing module, Split YOLOv3's loss, fix many known bugs, etc.
Please refer to [版本更新文档](docs/CHANGELOG.md) for details.

## Contributing

Contributions are highly welcomed and we would really appreciate your feedback!!