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# Conventions
Please check the following conventions if you would like to modify MMDetection as your own project.
## Loss
In MMDetection, a `dict` containing losses and metrics will be returned by `model(**data)`.
For example, in bbox head,
```python
class BBoxHead(nn.Module):
...
def loss(self, ...):
losses = dict()
# classification loss
losses['loss_cls'] = self.loss_cls(...)
# classification accuracy
losses['acc'] = accuracy(...)
# bbox regression loss
losses['loss_bbox'] = self.loss_bbox(...)
return losses
```
`bbox_head.loss()` will be called during model forward.
The returned dict contains `'loss_bbox'`, `'loss_cls'`, `'acc'` .
Only `'loss_bbox'`, `'loss_cls'` will be used during back propagation,
`'acc'` will only be used as a metric to monitor training process.
By default, only values whose keys contain `'loss'` will be back propagated.
This behavior could be changed by modifying `BaseDetector.train_step()`.
## Empty Proposals
In MMDetection, We have added special handling and unit test for empty proposals of two-stage. We need to deal with the empty proposals of the entire batch and single image at the same time. For example, in CascadeRoIHead,
```python
# simple_test method
...
# There is no proposal in the whole batch
if rois.shape[0] == 0:
bbox_results = [[
np.zeros((0, 5), dtype=np.float32)
for _ in range(self.bbox_head[-1].num_classes)
]] * num_imgs
if self.with_mask:
mask_classes = self.mask_head[-1].num_classes
segm_results = [[[] for _ in range(mask_classes)]
for _ in range(num_imgs)]
results = list(zip(bbox_results, segm_results))
else:
results = bbox_results
return results
...
# There is no proposal in the single image
for i in range(self.num_stages):
...
if i < self.num_stages - 1:
for j in range(num_imgs):
# Handle empty proposal
if rois[j].shape[0] > 0:
bbox_label = cls_score[j][:, :-1].argmax(dim=1)
refine_roi = self.bbox_head[i].regress_by_class(
rois[j], bbox_label, bbox_pred[j], img_metas[j])
refine_roi_list.append(refine_roi)
```
If you have customized `RoIHead`, you can refer to the above method to deal with empty proposals.
## Coco Panoptic Dataset
In MMDetection, we have supported COCO Panoptic dataset. We clarify a few conventions about the implementation of `CocoPanopticDataset` here.
1. For mmdet<=2.16.0, the range of foreground and background labels in semantic segmentation are different from the default setting of MMDetection. The label `0` stands for `VOID` label and the category labels start from `1`.
Since mmdet=2.17.0, the category labels of semantic segmentation start from `0` and label `255` stands for `VOID` for consistency with labels of bounding boxes.
To achieve that, the `Pad` pipeline supports setting the padding value for `seg`.
2. In the evaluation, the panoptic result is a map with the same shape as the original image. Each value in the result map has the format of `instance_id * INSTANCE_OFFSET + category_id`.