sar_vessel_detect
Code for the AI2 Skylight team's submission in the xView3 competition (https://iuu.xview.us) for vessel detection in Sentinel-1 SAR images. See whitepaper.pdf for a summary of our approach.
Dependencies
Install dependiences using conda:
cd sar_vessel_detect/
conda env create -f environment.yml
Pre-processing
First, ensure that training and validation scenes are extracted to the same directory, e.g. /xview3/all/images/. The training and validation labels should be concatenated and written to a CSV file like /xview3/all/labels.csv.
Prior to training, the large scenes must be split up into 800x800 windows (chips). Set paths and parameters in data/configs/chipping_config.txt, and then run:
cd sar_vessel_detect/src/
python -m xview3.processing.preprocessing ../data/configs/chipping_config.txt
Initial Training
We first train a model on the 50 xView3-Validation scenes only. We will apply this model in the xView3-Train scenes, and incorporate high-confidence predictions as additional labels. This is because xView3-Train scenes are not comprehensively labeled since most labels are derived automatically from AIS tracks.
To train, set paths and parameters in data/configs/initial.txt, and then run:
python -m xview3.training.train ../data/configs/initial.txt
Apply the trained model in xView3-Train, and incorporate high-confidence predictions as additional labels:
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/all/images/ --weights ../data/models/initial/best.pth --output out.csv --config_path ../data/configs/initial.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20 --scene_path ../data/splits/xview-train.txt
python -m xview3.eval.prune --in_path out.csv --out_path out-conf80.csv --conf 0.8
python -m xview3.misc.pred2label out-conf80.csv /xview3/all/chips/ out-conf80-tolabel.csv
python -m xview3.misc.pred2label_concat /xview3/all/chips/chip_annotations.csv out-conf80-tolabel.csv out-conf80-tolabel-concat.csv
python -m xview3.eval.prune --in_path out-conf80-tolabel-concat.csv --out_path out-conf80-tolabel-concat-prune.csv --nms 10
python -m xview3.misc.pred2label_fixlow out-conf80-tolabel-concat-prune.csv
python -m xview3.misc.pred2label_drop out-conf80-tolabel-concat-prune.csv out.csv out-conf80-tolabel-concat-prune-drop.csv
mv out-conf80-tolabel-concat-prune-drop.csv ../data/xval1b-conf80-concat-prune-drop.csv
Final Training
Now we can train the final object detection model. Set paths and parameters in data/configs/final.txt, and then run:
python -m xview3.training.train ../data/configs/final.txt
Attribute Prediction
We use a separate model to predict is_vessel, is_fishing, and vessel length.
python -m xview3.postprocess.v2.make_csv /xview3/all/chips/chip_annotations.csv out.csv ../data/splits/our-train.txt /xview3/postprocess/labels.csv
python -m xview3.postprocess.v2.get_boxes /xview3/postprocess/labels.csv /xview3/all/chips/ /xview3/postprocess/boxes/
python -m xview3.postprocess.v2.train /xview3/postprocess/model.pth /xview3/postprocess/labels.csv /xview3/postprocess/boxes/
Inference
Suppose that test images are in a directory like /xview3/test/images/. First, apply the object detector:
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/test/images/ --weights ../data/models/final/best.pth --output out.csv --config_path ../data/configs/final.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20
python -m xview3.eval.prune --in_path out.csv --out_path out-prune.csv --nms 10
Now apply the attribute prediction model:
python -m xview3.postprocess.v2.infer /xview3/postprocess/model.pth out-prune.csv /xview3/test/chips/ out-prune-attribute.csv attribute
Test-time Augmentation
We employ test-time augmentation in our final submission, which we find provides a small 0.5% performance improvement.
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/test/images/ --weights ../data/models/final/best.pth --output out-1.csv --config_path ../data/configs/final.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/test/images/ --weights ../data/models/final/best.pth --output out-2.csv --config_path ../data/configs/final.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20 --fliplr True
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/test/images/ --weights ../data/models/final/best.pth --output out-3.csv --config_path ../data/configs/final.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20 --flipud True
python -m xview3.infer.inference --image_folder /xview3/test/images/ --weights ../data/models/final/best.pth --output out-4.csv --config_path ../data/configs/final.txt --padding 400 --window_size 3072 --overlap 20 --fliplr True --flipud True
python -m xview3.eval.ensemble out-1.csv out-2.csv out-3.csv out-4.csv out-tta.csv
python -m xview3.eval.prune --in_path out-tta.csv --out_path out-tta-prune.csv --nms 10
python -m xview3.postprocess.v2.infer /xview3/postprocess/model.pth out-tta-prune.csv /xview3/test/chips/ out-tta-prune-attribute.csv attribute
Confidence Threshold
We tune the confidence threshold on the validation set. Repeat the inference steps with test-time augmentation on the our-validation.txt split to get out-validation-tta-prune-attribute.csv. Then:
python -m xview3.eval.metric --label_file /xview3/all/chips/chip_annotations.csv --scene_path ../data/splits/our-validation.txt --costly_dist --drop_low_detect --inference_file out-validation-tta-prune-attribute.csv --threshold -1
python -m xview3.eval.prune --in_path out-tta-prune-attribute.csv --out_path submit.csv --conf 0.3 # Change to the best confidence threshold.
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