tkDNN

tkDNN is a Deep Neural Network library built with cuDNN and tensorRT primitives, specifically thought to work on NVIDIA Jetson Boards. It has been tested on TK1(branch cudnn2), TX1, TX2, AGX Xavier, Nano and several discrete GPUs. The main goal of this project is to exploit NVIDIA boards as much as possible to obtain the best inference performance. It does not allow training.

If you use tkDNN in your research, please cite the following paper. For use in commercial solutions, write at gattifrancesco@hotmail.it and micaela.verucchi@unimore.it or refer to https://hipert.unimore.it/ .

@inproceedings{verucchi2020systematic,
  title={A Systematic Assessment of Embedded Neural Networks for Object Detection},
  author={Verucchi, Micaela and Brilli, Gianluca and Sapienza, Davide and Verasani, Mattia and Arena, Marco and Gatti, Francesco and Capotondi, Alessandro and Cavicchioli, Roberto and Bertogna, Marko and Solieri, Marco},
  booktitle={2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)},
  volume={1},
  pages={937--944},
  year={2020},
  organization={IEEE}
}

What's new

20 July 2021

• [x] Support to sematic segmentation README
• [x] Support 2D/3D Object Detection and Tracking README

  24 November 2021

• [x] Support to sematic segmentation on cuda 11
• [x] Support to TensorRT8. (thanks to Harshvardhan Chandirasekar)

  30 March 2022

• [x] Support to monocular depth esitmation README (thanks to Harshvardhan Chandirasekar)

FPS Results

Inference FPS of yolov4 with tkDNN, average of 1200 images with the same dimension as the input size, on

• RTX 2080Ti (CUDA 10.2, TensorRT 7.0.0, Cudnn 7.6.5);
• Xavier AGX, Jetpack 4.3 (CUDA 10.0, CUDNN 7.6.3, tensorrt 6.0.1 );
• Xavier NX, Jetpack 4.4 (CUDA 10.2, CUDNN 8.0.0, tensorrt 7.1.0 ).
• Tx2, Jetpack 4.2 (CUDA 10.0, CUDNN 7.3.1, tensorrt 5.0.6 );
• Jetson Nano, Jetpack 4.4 (CUDA 10.2, CUDNN 8.0.0, tensorrt 7.1.0 ).

MAP Results

Results for COCO val 2017 (5k images), on RTX 2080Ti, with conf threshold=0.001

Index

• tkDNN
  • Index
  • Dependencies
  • How to compile this repo
  • Workflow
  • Exporting weights
  • Run the demos
  • tkDNN on Windows 10 or Windows 11
  • Existing tests and supported networks
  • References

Dependencies

This branch works on every NVIDIA GPU that supports the following (latest tested) dependencies:

• CUDA 11.3 (or >= 10.2)
• cuDNN 8.2.1 (or >= 8.0.4)
• TensorRT 8.0.3 (or >=7.2)
• OpenCV 4.5.4 (or >=4)
• cmake 3.21 (or >= 3.15)
• yaml-cpp 0.5.2
• eigen3 3.3.4
• curl 7.58

sudo apt install libyaml-cpp-dev curl libeigen3-dev

About OpenCV

To compile and install OpenCV4 with contrib us the script install_OpenCV4.sh. It will download and compile OpenCV in Download folder.

bash scripts/install_OpenCV4.sh

If you have OpenCV compiled with cuda and contrib and want to use it with tkDNN pass ENABLE_OPENCV_CUDA_CONTRIB=ON flag when compiling tkDBB . If the flag is not passed,the preprocessing of the networks is computed on the CPU, otherwise on the GPU. In the latter case some milliseconds are saved in the end-to-end latency.

How to compile this repo

Build with cmake. If using Ubuntu 18.04 a new version of cmake is needed (3.15 or above). On both linux and windows ,the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable needs to be defined as either Release or Debug.

git clone https://github.com/ceccocats/tkDNN
cd tkDNN
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. 
make

Workflow

Steps needed to do inference on tkDNN with a custom neural network.

• Build and train a NN model with your favorite framework.
• Export weights and bias for each layer and save them in a binary file (one for layer).
• Export outputs for each layer and save them in a binary file (one for layer).
• Create a new test and define the network, layer by layer using the weights extracted and the output to check the results.
• Do inference.

Exporting weights

For specific details on how to export weights see HERE.

Run the demos

For specific details on how to run:

• 2D object detection demos, details on FP16, INT8 and batching see HERE.
• segmentation demos see HERE.
• monocular depth estimation see HERE.
• 2D/3D object detection and tracking demos see HERE.
• mAP demo to evaluate 2D object detectors see HERE.

tkDNN on Windows 10 or Windows 11

For specific details on how to run tkDNN on Windows 10/11 see HERE.

Existing tests and supported networks

References

1. Redmon, Joseph, and Ali Farhadi. "YOLO9000: better, faster, stronger." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2017.
2. Redmon, Joseph, and Ali Farhadi. "Yolov3: An incremental improvement." arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02767 (2018).
3. Yu, Fisher, et al. "Deep layer aggregation." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2018.
4. Zhou, Xingyi, Dequan Wang, and Philipp Krähenbühl. "Objects as points." arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07850 (2019).
5. Sandler, Mark, et al. "Mobilenetv2: Inverted residuals and linear bottlenecks." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2018.
6. He, Kaiming, et al. "Deep residual learning for image recognition." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2016.
7. Wang, Chien-Yao, et al. "CSPNet: A New Backbone that can Enhance Learning Capability of CNN." arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11929 (2019).
8. Bochkovskiy, Alexey, Chien-Yao Wang, and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao. "YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection." arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10934 (2020).
9. Bochkovskiy, Alexey, "Yolo v4, v3 and v2 for Windows and Linux" (https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet)
10. Wang, Chien-Yao, Alexey Bochkovskiy, and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao. "Scaled-YOLOv4: Scaling Cross Stage Partial Network." arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08036 (2020).
11. Zhuang, Juntang, et al. "ShelfNet for fast semantic segmentation." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. 2019.
12. Zhou, Xingyi, Vladlen Koltun, and Philipp Krähenbühl. "Tracking objects as points." European Conference on Computer Vision. Springer, Cham, 2020.
13. Godard, Clément, et al. "Digging into self-supervised monocular depth estimation." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2019.

Contributors

The main contibutors, in chronological order, are:

• Francesco Gatti, francesco.gatti@hipert.it
• Micaela Verucchi, micaela.verucchi@unimore.it
• Davide Sapienza, davide.sapienza@unimore.it
• Harshvardhan Chandirasekar, f20180523@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in