• generated proposals of our method are added.
• spatial pyramid pooling models are added

code for DeepProposal paper presented in ICCV 2015 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04445):

Amir Ghodrati, Ali Diba, Marco Pedersoli, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool, "DeepProposal: Hunting Objects by Cascading Deep Convolutional Layers".

• Dependencies should be installed according to their instructions. They should either be in ./deps/ folder or you need to change the paths in get_opts.m file:

  • matconvnet : https://github.com/vlfeat/matconvnet (compile it in gpu-enabled mode)
  • piotr_toolbox_V3.40 : http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/toolbox/piotr_toolbox_V3.40.zip
  • liblinear svm : https://github.com/cjlin1/liblinear (if you want to train an objectness)
  • modified version of EdgeBox which I have included it.

• Instruction to compile the modified code of edgebox(I have included files for 64-bit linux):

  • mex private/edgesDetectMex.cpp -outdir private [OMPPARAMS]
  • mex private/edgesNmsMex.cpp -outdir private [OMPPARAMS]
  • mex private/spDetectMex.cpp -outdir private [OMPPARAMS]
  • mex private/edgeBoxesMex.cpp -outdir private
  • Here [OMPPARAMS] are parameters for OpenMP and are OS and compiler dependent.
    • Windows: [OMPPARAMS] = '-DUSEOMP' 'OPTIMFLAGS="$OPTIMFLAGS' '/openmp"'
    • Linux V1: [OMPPARAMS] = '-DUSEOMP' CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fopenmp" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fopenmp"
    • Linux V2: [OMPPARAMS] = '-DUSEOMP' CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fopenmp" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fopenmp"
  • To compile without OpenMP simply omit [OMPPARAMS]; note that code will be single threaded in this case.

• The compiled files for "nms_c.cpp" and "intg_sub.cpp" under 64-bit linux are added. If you want to compile it, use "mex file_name.cpp"

• The models that are used in DeepProposal (in './models' folder):

  • objectness models: as described in section 3.1 of the paper (trained models are included)
  • contour model: as described in section 4 of the paper (trained model is included)
  • pre-trained CNN model (http://www.vlfeat.org/matconvnet/models/imagenet-caffe-ref.mat): make a symbolic link in ./models/cnn/ that point to the imagenet-caffe-ref.mat or change the path in get_opts.m

You can run the "demo.m" for extracting proposals for a given image.

A script called "main_run.m" is included to extract proposals for VOC 2007 and COCO 2014. you should setup VOC07 development kit and/or COCO14 api+dataset according to their instructions and then set paths in get_opts.m

• All boxes are in format of [x y x+w y+h]
• This version does not use spatial pyramid representation for second stage. -UPDATE: It is included now!
• For COCO14 dataset, objects with area smaller than 32^2 are considered as difficult so they are omitted during evaluation. you can change it in arrange_imdb.m
• Features can be loaded from './feats/' in case they are already extracted
• Outputs are stored in './outputs/'.
• Logs are stored in './logs/'.

• DeepProposal-50: <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8gk4ucVr8z_RHRic3dqeGdCLTQ/view?usp=sharing>test
• DeepProposal-70: <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8gk4ucVr8z_Q0laQnZWRGw3ZWs/view?usp=sharing>trainval <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8gk4ucVr8z_TGFKS1ZHM01weDQ/view?usp=sharing>test
• note: the proposals are in the format of [x, y, width, height, confidence]