This repository allows the user to

• Bring their own data (must label it in walkthrough below)
• Train an instance segmentation model for multiple classes
• Score on images and video
• Evaluate model mAP

Mask R-CNN is an algorithm for instance segmentation.

Based on: https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN ("Training on Your Own Dataset" section)

Example of detecting instances of balloons with Mask R-CNN:

It is recommended to use a virtual environment or conda envrionment so as to not conflict with other Python library versions that may be installed.

Within a chosen Python 3 environment, install necessary libraries for this project with:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a folder called data in the base of the repo.

Split dataset images into training, validation and test sets. (e.g. split all images 60/20/20), create and place them in separate folders (data/train, data/val, data/test).

Download the VGG Image Annotator browser app to run locally (tested with version 2.0.10).

Here, we will use the VGG Image Annotator to label images for instance segmentation using the polygon setting.

IMPORTANT: make sure you do not refresh browser before exporting the labels because it will wipe all of the images and labels loaded/created.

Instructions:

1. Open VGG Image Annotator in a browser (if downloaded, look for the via.html file and click on this to open the tool)
2. Load the train images (we will label val separately) with "Add Files" button
3. Under "Region Shape", select "Polygon region shape"
4. To create a label, under "Attributes" and "Region Attributes", in the text field, enter the word "type" (important, please keep as this) and hit the "+". Name the label "type" as well, and for the "Type" field select "dropdown". Add one "id" per class as shown below (this example has two classes, eye and nose, with eye as the default).

5. Use the mouse and draw polygons around the object of interest, then click back into the region and use the dropdown menu to select the class.

6. Click the Annotation menu item to save the annotations "as json" to the correct folder (data/train) renaming the file in each folder via_region_data.json (the program will look for this file name specifically!).

• Do the same as above for the val folder of images (the required validation set), saving a file called via_region_data.json to the data/val folder. The test folder does not need labels and is only for you to test single images after you have a trained model.

IMPORTANT: Now, update line 61 (CLASS_NAME list) in custom.py with your class names.

Get the model from the release page here. Look under "Assets" at the bottom for mask_rcnn_coco.h5 and click to download. Place the model file into the base of this repo.

• Create logs folder in base of repo (this folder is where the trained models will be saved)
• Run training script as follows.

python3 custom.py train --dataset=data --weights=coco --logs logs

or, alternatively:

• Resume training a model that you had trained earlier (it will look for last folder in the logs directory by default)

python3 custom.py train --dataset=data --weights=last

• Apply color splash to an image (all greyscale except for masks which show original color - see Credits)

python3 custom.py splash --weights=/path/to/weights/file.h5 --image=<URL or path to file>

• Apply color splash to video using the last weights you trained

python3 custom.py splash_movie --weights=last --video=<URL or path to file>

• Apply regular detection (bounding box and scores) and masking to video

python3 custom.py classic_movie --weights=/path/to/weights/file.h5 --video=<URL or path to file>

For help, type python3 custom.py --help

Navigate to this repo for an example application to demo the model: https://github.com/michhar/maskrcnn-python-app

• Mask R-CNN for Object Detection and Segmentation codebase

  • Associated paper:

  @misc{matterport_maskrcnn_2017,
    title={Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Keras and TensorFlow},
    author={Waleed Abdulla},
    year={2017},
    publisher={Github},
    journal={GitHub repository},
    howpublished={\url{https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN}},
  }
  

• Splash of Color: Instance Segmentation with Mask R-CNN and TensorFlow

• Cat face image collection

Abhishek Dutta and Andrew Zisserman. 2019. The VIA Annotation Software for Images, Audio and Video. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM ’19), October 21–25, 2019, Nice, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3350535.

@inproceedings{dutta2019vgg,
  author = {Dutta, Abhishek and Zisserman, Andrew},
  title = {The {VIA} Annotation Software for Images, Audio and Video},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
  series = {MM '19},
  year = {2019},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6889-6/19/10},
  location = {Nice, France},
  numpages = {4},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3350535},
  doi = {10.1145/3343031.3350535},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
}

@misc{dutta2016via,
  author = "Dutta, A. and Gupta, A. and Zissermann, A.",
  title = "{VGG} Image Annotator ({VIA})",
  year = "2016",
  howpublished = "http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/via/",
  note = "Version: X.Y.Z, Accessed: INSERT_DATE_HERE"
}