Image Pixel Values Range

[wasim6691]

Hi David

I want to ask You that If i convert the hexadecimal values from the "indata.bin" file into the corresponding floating point values then What range of the values should I expect ? . At the moment I am getting the range of the pixels values in negative and positive both. Is there any defined range of pixel values e.g. (0, 255) or (-255, 255) etc. Hoping for an early response. Thanks

Best Regards Khan

[dgschwend]

Good question! As you can see in the conversion script https://github.com/dgschwend/zynqnet/blob/master/tools/convert_jpeg_to_indata_bin.py, Zynqnet expects inputs between 0-255, but with the ImageNet mean vales [104, 117, 123] subtracted.

[dgschwend]

I.e. the floating-point range will be approximately -123 to +151, depending on the channel (R/G/B)

[wasim6691]

I am reading the indata.bin file and making a 3d array for storing the pixel values. The array pattern is [channels][height][Width]. Is that pattern ok ? But I have not subtracted any mean value from the values which I m reading from the binary file ?

On Jan 9, 2018 7:23 PM, "David Gschwend" notifications@github.com wrote:

I.e. the floating-point range will be approximately -123 to +151, depending on the channel (R/G/B)

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[dgschwend]

CHW order is correct. Beware of BGR color channels. See the linked script for the conversion from JPG -> indata.bin, it says all about the conversion. Why are you trying to interpret the binary file, by the way?

[wasim6691]

The binary file indata.bin is of specific image right?. So I am reading the values from the binary file and trying to implement the first layer my self. Can we use the binary file as image pixel file. The values inside are in hexa and I m interpreting 4 hex values as 1 floating point value ? Is that right or wrong ?

On Jan 9, 2018 7:49 PM, "David Gschwend" notifications@github.com wrote:

CHW order is correct. Beware of BGR color channels. See the linked script for the conversion from JPG -> indata.bin, it says all about the conversion. Why are you trying to interpret the binary file, by the way?

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[wasim6691]

Hi David

Please Answer the Above question.

One More question is that why are you subtracting the mean values for the ImageNet image Set. Can You please explain the reason behind tat. Thanks for your time. Keenly looking forward for your reply.

[dgschwend]

Your assumptions are correct.

The network has been trained with mean-subtracted images, therefore needs mean-subtraction also during inference. There‘s some debate whether this is necessary in the Deep Learning community, but it‘s standard in the DIGITS framework I trained the network with.

[wasim6691]

HI David

I am.getting the floating point values in the range of -123 to 151 as you have mentioned before. What do you think it would be ok to use these as pixels values for deep neural networks like zynqnet. I am using these and multiplying with the weights values to get the next layer values.? Thanks

On Jan 10, 2018 8:38 AM, "David Gschwend" notifications@github.com wrote:

Your assumptions are correct.

The network has been trained with mean-subtracted images, therefore needs mean-subtraction also during inference. There‘s some debate whether this is necessary in the Deep Learning community, but it‘s standard in the DIGITS framework I trained the network with.

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