ECBM6040-Project

This project is the student final project for Columbia University ECBM E6040 Neural Networks and Deep Learning Research. This project use PyTorch to implement the LaneNet given in the the paper "Towards End-to-End Lane Detection: an Instance Segmentation Approach". LaneNet is trained end-to-end for lane detection, by treating lane detection as an instance segmentation problem.

Image from the original paper which shows the LaneNet architecture:

Image of the processing steps:

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Table of Contents

• Requirement
• Download and prepare the dataset
• Training the E-Net base LaneNet
• Do evaluation on the test dataset
• Generate some GIF to show the result
• Reference

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Requirement

• Python 3.7
• PyTorch 1.4.0
• torchvision
• sklearn 0.22.1
• NumPy 1.18.2

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Download and prepare the dataset

Download:

You should download the Lane Detection Challenge dataset from TuSimple dataset

1. Download train_set.zip and unzip to folder ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE
2. Download test_set.zip and unzip to folder ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE
3. Download test_label.json and put it into the folder ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/test_set which is unzipped form test_set.zip

Prepare:

After you download the dataset from TuSimple dataset, some preprocess to the dataset should be done to prepare the dataset for training and testing.

1. Process the train_set split into ground truth image, binary ground truth and instance ground truth, you should run

python utils/process_training_dataset_2.py --src_dir (your train_set folder place)
for me this step is: python utils/process_training_dataset_2.py --src_dir /Users/smiffy/Documents/GitHub/ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/train_set

2. Then you can delete the folder ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/train_set and json files in ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/training

3. You should see some folder like that in your train_set

ECBM6040-Project
|---TUSIMPLE
.   |---Lanenet_output
.   |   |--lanenet_epoch_39_batch_8.model
.   |
.   |---training
.   |   |--lgt_binary_image
.   |   |--gt_image
.   |   |--gt_instance_image
.   |
.   |---txt_for_local
.   |   |--test.txt
.   |   |--train.txt
.   |   |--val.txt
.   |
.   |---test_set
.   |   |--clips
.   |   |--test_tasks_0627.json
.   |   |--test_label.json
.   |   |--readme.md
.   |
.   |---test_clips

For the data prepare you can reference LaneNet TensorFlow project but there is some different.

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Training the E-Net base LaneNet

1. Dataset for training: You can use ECBM6040-Project/Notebook-experiment/Dataset Show.ipynb to see the dataset for training
2. Use the ECBM6040-Project/Train.ipynb to train the LaneNet, the model will save in ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/Lanenet_output
3. You can also train the LaneNet with augmented dataset by using ECBM6040-Project/Train_aug.ipynb

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Do evaluation on the test dataset

The evaluation base on TuSimple challenge evaluation method you can get more information from TuSimple exampe

1. You can use the jupyter notebook ECBM6040-Project/Notebook-experiment/Evaluation of Lanenet.ipynb to see the evaluation result
2. The final evaluation result is like that:

	Accuracy	FP	FN
Original Paper	96.4%	7.80%	2.44%
My result	94.3%	14.70%	6.95%
My result aug	94.7%	15.08%	6.24%

3. The speed result is like that:

Original Paper : fps is 62.5 (one NVIDIA 1080 TI)

	time (ms)
Forward pass	12
Clustering	4.6

My Result : fps is 20(forward), 1.6(clustering) (Google Cloud Platform and one NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU and clustering use CPU)

	time (ms)
Forward pass	50
Clustering	619

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Generate some GIF to show the result

Use the ECBM6040-Project/Notebook-experiment/Generate Video and show the result.ipynb, you can generate some gif to show the result on some clips in ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/test_clips and output gif will find in ECBM6040-Project/TUSIMPLE/gif_output

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Reference

[1] Neven, D., De Brabandere, B., Georgoulis, S., Proesmans, M. and Van Gool, L., 2018, June. Towards end-to-end lane detection: an instance segmentation approach. In 2018 IEEE intelligent vehicles symposium (IV) (pp. 286-291). IEEE. https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05591

[2] LaneNet TensorFlow project https://github.com/MaybeShewill-CV/lanenet-lane-detection

[3] TuSimple Dataset https://github.com/TuSimple/tusimple-benchmark

[4] E-Net Project https://github.com/davidtvs/PyTorch-ENet