Yet another export yolov5 models to ONNX and inference with TensorRT

[linghu8812]

Hello everyone, here is a repo that can convert the yolov5 model to ONNX model and inference with TensorRT. The code is here: https://github.com/linghu8812/tensorrt_inference/tree/master/project/yolov5. It supported all yolov5 models including yolov5s, yolov5m, yolov5l and yolov5x. An onnxsim module has been imported to simplify the yolov5 structure. Before simplify the yolov5 onnx structure was shown like this:

after simplified the onnx model has been simplified to:

some extra node have been simplified.

In addition, a TensorRT inference code has also been supplied, the inference result has been shown below:

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[glenn-jocher]

@linghu8812 very nice! Did you have to configure onnxsim especially to achieve those simplifications or did it do them on its own?

[linghu8812]

@glenn-jocher hello,

first of all, onnx-simplifier need to be installed with pip install onnx-simplifier, then, the simplification codes are:

    # ONNX export
    try:
        import onnx
        from onnxsim import simplify

        print('\nStarting ONNX export with onnx %s...' % onnx.__version__)
        f = opt.weights.replace('.pt', '.onnx')  # filename
        torch.onnx.export(model, img, f, verbose=False, opset_version=12, input_names=['images'],
                          output_names=['output'] if y is None else ['output'])

        # Checks
        onnx_model = onnx.load(f)  # load onnx model
        model_simp, check = simplify(onnx_model)
        assert check, "Simplified ONNX model could not be validated"
        onnx.save(model_simp, f)
        # print(onnx.helper.printable_graph(onnx_model.graph))  # print a human readable model
        print('ONNX export success, saved as %s' % f)
    except Exception as e:
        print('ONNX export failure: %s' % e)

[al03]

@glenn-jocher hello,

first of all, onnx-simplifier need to be installed with pip install onnx-simplifier, then, the simplification codes are:

    # ONNX export
    try:
        import onnx
        from onnxsim import simplify

        print('\nStarting ONNX export with onnx %s...' % onnx.__version__)
        f = opt.weights.replace('.pt', '.onnx')  # filename
        torch.onnx.export(model, img, f, verbose=False, opset_version=12, input_names=['images'],
                          output_names=['output'] if y is None else ['output'])

        # Checks
        onnx_model = onnx.load(f)  # load onnx model
        model_simp, check = simplify(onnx_model)
        assert check, "Simplified ONNX model could not be validated"
        onnx.save(model_simp, f)
        # print(onnx.helper.printable_graph(onnx_model.graph))  # print a human readable model
        print('ONNX export success, saved as %s' % f)
    except Exception as e:
        print('ONNX export failure: %s' % e)

I tried this export script, but don't get the simplified layer like you showed up.

My layer info of outputs is this:

[glenn-jocher]

@al03 did the model simplify at all? I'm interested to see if it works, I'll try myself.

[glenn-jocher]

@al03 @linghu8812 I get an error on import onnxsim, I'm not able to evaluate it. I used pip install onnx-simplifier with Python 3.8.0: https://pypi.org/project/onnx-simplifier/

Will raise an issue on the onnxsim repo. EDIT: issue raised https://github.com/daquexian/onnx-simplifier/issues/109

[linghu8812]

https://github.com/linghu8812/yolov5/blob/bc2874fe025430e6f710b7e26054646f88c4e86e/models/yolo.py#L43-L63

@al03 the yolo.py file has a little changed, it makes convenience for C++ decoding boxes from tensors.

[austingg]

@glenn-jocher you may install onnxruntime library first.

[glenn-jocher]

@austingg yes it seems so according to https://github.com/daquexian/onnx-simplifier/issues/109#issuecomment-749966150. I was interested in using onnxsim as part of the default code, but I looked at the install instructions (https://www.onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/install.html) and the prerequisites and OS-specific instructions appear too burdensome to include as part of the default repo. I think it would cause users more confusion/problems than it would solve.

If this is a common use case though (and it seems it may be) it might make sense to place these instructions within a Tutorial that we could add to https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5. That way expert users could still benefit.

[daquexian]

@austingg yes it seems so according to daquexian/onnx-simplifier#109 (comment). I was interested in using onnxsim as part of the default code, but I looked at the install instructions (https://www.onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/install.html) and the prerequisites and OS-specific instructions appear too burdensome to include as part of the default repo. I think it would cause users more confusion/problems than it would solve.

@glenn-jocher I have updated onnx-simplifier to v0.2.26 so that it depends on onnxruntime-noopenmp instead of onnxruntime according to https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/6511. I believe all instructions in https://www.onnxruntime.ai/docs/get-started/install.html is not indeed needed if we don't depend on openmp, and onnx-simplifier will work like a charm without any additional instructions. Could you please give onnx-simplifier a try? :D

[glenn-jocher]

@daquexian oh really? I actually gave up on the process before after seeing the complicated dependency requirements. So what exactly are the pip installs required now to use onnx-simplifier? It would be nice to integrate it into export.py if we can get simple dependencies and the installs all pass the CI checks on the 3 main OS's.

[glenn-jocher]

@daquexian the current CI checks do an ONNX export BTW here: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/runs/1803124986?check_suite_focus=true

The export tests are defined here: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/be9edffded6b690168e8b92dd33cf471d09f8f13/.github/workflows/ci-testing.yml#L79

Failures in an export won't fail the CI as they are in try except clauses, but it provides nice realtime insight into whether they are working or not, since the tests run every day.

[daquexian]

So what exactly are the pip installs required now to use onnx-simplifier?

Just update https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci-testing.yml#L51 with pip install -q onnx onnx-simplifier>=0.2.26 and update model/export.py like https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/issues/1597#issuecomment-738475425. No extra instructions are needed :D

[glenn-jocher]

@daquexian I was able to install in Colab, but not locally on macos for some reason. Python 3.9 appears incompatible, so I tried with a 3.8.0 environment, but got this. Do you know what the issue might be?

[daquexian]

@glenn-jocher Oh it's my fault.. onnxruntime-noopenmp doesn't have a macos version. That's so strange. I'll update this issue when onnxruntime has better macos support.

[al03]

@al03 did the model simplify at all? I'm interested to see if it works, I'll try myself. It did work after convert to other format model, but it need to implement the detection layer(grade, sigmoid, nms).

[linghu8812]

linghu8812/tensorrt_inference#42

It is supported yolov5 4.0, yolov5s6.pt models and so on to inference with TensorRT now!

for yolov5s6, just run with

./yolov5_trt ../config6.yaml ../samples

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[PiyalGeorge]

@linghu8812 , I converted the yolov5s model to onnx model following this . Then i simplified the onnx model using this . I tried this in yolov5s - release number :3.1

I wish to know "the output nodes before 5D Reshape". How can i get these output nodes? Kindly help me to know these output nodes.

[glenn-jocher]

@PiyalGeorge I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the output nodes before 5D reshape, though the 5D reshape is in the Detect layer, so what you are looking for is probably there.

https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/5f7d39fede4de8af98472bd009c63c3a86568e2d/models/yolo.py#L24-L58

On a side note, onnx-simplifier is now integrated with YOLOv5 export via PR https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/pull/2815, you can access it like this in the latest code:

python export.py --simplify

[bertinma]

@glenn-jocher Detect Layer still cannot be exported to onnx ?

[glenn-jocher]

@bertinma yes Detect() layer exports to ONNX with export.py.

[ithmz]

Hi, may I ask how you get the last output layer? (1,25200,85) Thanks

[glenn-jocher]

@tsangz189 YOLOv5 output grids are flattened and concatenated to form a single output.

python models/export.py --grid --simplify

[ithmz]

@glenn-jocher Hi Jocher, thanks for your reply, but when I run the script python models/export.py --simplify the outputs are not concatenated to form a single output

[glenn-jocher]

@tsangz189 --grid forms the single output:

python models/export.py --grid --simplify

[ttanzhiqiang]

you can https://github.com/ttanzhiqiang/onnx_tensorrt_project.git