RTMDet: An Empirical Study of Designing Real-Time Object Detectors
In this paper, we aim to design an efficient real-time object detector that exceeds the YOLO series and is easily extensible for many object recognition tasks such as instance segmentation and rotated object detection. To obtain a more efficient model architecture, we explore an architecture that has compatible capacities in the backbone and neck, constructed by a basic building block that consists of large-kernel depth-wise convolutions. We further introduce soft labels when calculating matching costs in the dynamic label assignment to improve accuracy. Together with better training techniques, the resulting object detector, named RTMDet, achieves 52.8% AP on COCO with 300+ FPS on an NVIDIA 3090 GPU, outperforming the current mainstream industrial detectors. RTMDet achieves the best parameter-accuracy trade-off with tiny/small/medium/large/extra-large model sizes for various application scenarios, and obtains new state-of-the-art performance on real-time instance segmentation and rotated object detection. We hope the experimental results can provide new insights into designing versatile real-time object detectors for many object recognition tasks.
Model | size | box AP | Params(M) | FLOPS(G) | TRT-FP16-Latency(ms) RTX3090 |
TRT-FP16-Latency(ms) T4 |
Config | Download |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RTMDet-tiny | 640 | 41.1 | 4.8 | 8.1 | 0.98 | 2.34 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-s | 640 | 44.6 | 8.89 | 14.8 | 1.22 | 2.96 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-m | 640 | 49.4 | 24.71 | 39.27 | 1.62 | 6.41 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-l | 640 | 51.5 | 52.3 | 80.23 | 2.44 | 10.32 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-x | 640 | 52.8 | 94.86 | 141.67 | 3.10 | 18.80 | config | model | log |
Note:
- We implement a fast training version of RTMDet in MMYOLO. Its training speed is 2.6 times faster and memory requirement is lower! Try it here!
- The inference speed of RTMDet is measured with TensorRT 8.4.3, cuDNN 8.2.0, FP16, batch size=1, and without NMS.
- For a fair comparison, the config of bbox postprocessing is changed to be consistent with YOLOv5/6/7 after PR#9494, bringing about 0.1~0.3% AP improvement.
RTMDet-Ins is the state-of-the-art real-time instance segmentation on coco dataset:
Model | size | box AP | mask AP | Params(M) | FLOPS(G) | TRT-FP16-Latency(ms) | Config | Download |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RTMDet-Ins-tiny | 640 | 40.5 | 35.4 | 5.6 | 11.8 | 1.70 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-Ins-s | 640 | 44.0 | 38.7 | 10.18 | 21.5 | 1.93 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-Ins-m | 640 | 48.8 | 42.1 | 27.58 | 54.13 | 2.69 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-Ins-l | 640 | 51.2 | 43.7 | 57.37 | 106.56 | 3.68 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-Ins-x | 640 | 52.4 | 44.6 | 102.7 | 182.7 | 5.31 | config | model | log |
Note:
- The inference speed of RTMDet-Ins is measured on an NVIDIA 3090 GPU with TensorRT 8.4.3, cuDNN 8.2.0, FP16, batch size=1. Top 100 masks are kept and the post process latency is included.
RTMDet-R achieves state-of-the-art on various remote sensing datasets.
Models and configs of RTMDet-R are available in MMRotate.
Backbone | pretrain | Aug | mmAP | mAP50 | mAP75 | Params(M) | FLOPS(G) | TRT-FP16-Latency(ms) | Config | Download |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RTMDet-tiny | IN | RR | 47.37 | 75.36 | 50.64 | 4.88 | 20.45 | 4.40 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-tiny | IN | MS+RR | 53.59 | 79.82 | 58.87 | 4.88 | 20.45 | 4.40 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-s | IN | RR | 48.16 | 76.93 | 50.59 | 8.86 | 37.62 | 4.86 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-s | IN | MS+RR | 54.43 | 79.98 | 60.07 | 8.86 | 37.62 | 4.86 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-m | IN | RR | 50.56 | 78.24 | 54.47 | 24.67 | 99.76 | 7.82 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-m | IN | MS+RR | 55.00 | 80.26 | 61.26 | 24.67 | 99.76 | 7.82 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-l | IN | RR | 51.01 | 78.85 | 55.21 | 52.27 | 204.21 | 10.82 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-l | IN | MS+RR | 55.52 | 80.54 | 61.47 | 52.27 | 204.21 | 10.82 | config | model | log |
RTMDet-l | COCO | MS+RR | 56.74 | 81.33 | 63.45 | 52.27 | 204.21 | 10.82 | config | model | log |
We also provide the imagenet classification configs of the RTMDet backbone. Find more details in the classification folder.
Model | resolution | Params(M) | Flops(G) | Top-1 (%) | Top-5 (%) | Download |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CSPNeXt-tiny | 224x224 | 2.73 | 0.34 | 69.44 | 89.45 | model |
CSPNeXt-s | 224x224 | 4.89 | 0.66 | 74.41 | 92.23 | model |
CSPNeXt-m | 224x224 | 13.05 | 1.93 | 79.27 | 94.79 | model |
CSPNeXt-l | 224x224 | 27.16 | 4.19 | 81.30 | 95.62 | model |
CSPNeXt-x | 224x224 | 48.85 | 7.76 | 82.10 | 95.69 | model |
@misc{lyu2022rtmdet,
title={RTMDet: An Empirical Study of Designing Real-Time Object Detectors},
author={Chengqi Lyu and Wenwei Zhang and Haian Huang and Yue Zhou and Yudong Wang and Yanyi Liu and Shilong Zhang and Kai Chen},
year={2022},
eprint={2212.07784},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
Here is a basic example of deploy RTMDet with MMDeploy-1.x.
Before starting the deployment, please make sure you install MMDetection and MMDeploy-1.x correctly.
- Install MMDetection, please refer to the MMDetection installation guide.
- Install MMDeploy-1.x, please refer to the MMDeploy-1.x installation guide.
If you want to deploy RTMDet with ONNXRuntime, TensorRT, or other inference engine, please make sure you have installed the corresponding dependencies and MMDeploy precompiled packages.
After the installation, you can enjoy the model deployment journey starting from converting PyTorch model to backend model by running MMDeploy's tools/deploy.py
.
The detailed model conversion tutorial please refer to the MMDeploy document. Here we only give the example of converting RTMDet.
MMDeploy supports converting dynamic and static models. Dynamic models support different input shape, but the inference speed is slower than static models. To achieve the best performance, we suggest converting RTMDet with static setting.
- If you only want to use ONNX, please use
configs/mmdet/detection/detection_onnxruntime_static.py
as the deployment config. - If you want to use TensorRT, please use
configs/mmdet/detection/detection_tensorrt_static-640x640.py
.
If you want to customize the settings in the deployment config for your requirements, please refer to MMDeploy config tutorial.
After preparing the deployment config, you can run the tools/deploy.py
script to convert your model.
Here we take converting RTMDet-s to TensorRT as an example:
# go to the mmdeploy folder
cd ${PATH_TO_MMDEPLOY}
# download RTMDet-s checkpoint
wget -P checkpoint https://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v3.0/rtmdet/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco_20220905_161602-387a891e.pth
# run the command to start model conversion
python tools/deploy.py \
configs/mmdet/detection/detection_tensorrt_static-640x640.py \
${PATH_TO_MMDET}/configs/rtmdet/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco.py \
checkpoint/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco_20220905_161602-387a891e.pth \
demo/resources/det.jpg \
--work-dir ./work_dirs/rtmdet \
--device cuda:0 \
--show
If the script runs successfully, you will see the following files:
|----work_dirs
|----rtmdet
|----end2end.onnx # ONNX model
|----end2end.engine # TensorRT engine file
After this, you can check the inference results with MMDeploy Model Converter API:
from mmdeploy.apis import inference_model
result = inference_model(
model_cfg='${PATH_TO_MMDET}/configs/rtmdet/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco.py',
deploy_cfg='${PATH_TO_MMDEPLOY}/configs/mmdet/detection/detection_tensorrt_static-640x640.py',
backend_files=['work_dirs/rtmdet/end2end.engine'],
img='demo/resources/det.jpg',
device='cuda:0')
To convert the model with TRT-FP16, you can enable the fp16 mode in your deploy config:
# in MMDeploy config
backend_config = dict(
type='tensorrt',
common_config=dict(
fp16_mode=True # enable fp16
))
To reduce the end to end inference speed with the inference engine, we suggest you to adjust the post-processing setting of the model. We set a very low score threshold during training and testing to achieve better COCO mAP. However, in actual usage scenarios, a relatively high score threshold (e.g. 0.3) is usually used.
You can adjust the score threshold and the number of detection boxes in your model config according to the actual usage to reduce the time-consuming of post-processing.
# in MMDetection config
model = dict(
test_cfg=dict(
nms_pre=1000, # keep top-k score bboxes before nms
min_bbox_size=0,
score_thr=0.3, # score threshold to filter bboxes
nms=dict(type='nms', iou_threshold=0.65),
max_per_img=100) # only keep top-100 as the final results.
)
We provide both Python and C++ inference API with MMDeploy SDK.
To use SDK, you need to dump the required info during converting the model. Just add --dump-info
to the model conversion command:
python tools/deploy.py \
configs/mmdet/detection/detection_tensorrt_static-640x640.py \
${PATH_TO_MMDET}/configs/rtmdet/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco.py \
checkpoint/rtmdet_s_8xb32-300e_coco_20220905_161602-387a891e.pth \
demo/resources/det.jpg \
--work-dir ./work_dirs/rtmdet-sdk \
--device cuda:0 \
--show \
--dump-info # dump sdk info
After running the command, it will dump 3 json files additionally for the SDK:
|----work_dirs
|----rtmdet-sdk
|----end2end.onnx # ONNX model
|----end2end.engine # TensorRT engine file
# json files for the SDK
|----pipeline.json
|----deploy.json
|----detail.json
Here is a basic example of SDK Python API:
from mmdeploy_python import Detector
import cv2
img = cv2.imread('demo/resources/det.jpg')
# create a detector
detector = Detector(model_path='work_dirs/rtmdet-sdk', device_name='cuda', device_id=0)
# run the inference
bboxes, labels, _ = detector(img)
# Filter the result according to threshold
indices = [i for i in range(len(bboxes))]
for index, bbox, label_id in zip(indices, bboxes, labels):
[left, top, right, bottom], score = bbox[0:4].astype(int), bbox[4]
if score < 0.3:
continue
# draw bbox
cv2.rectangle(img, (left, top), (right, bottom), (0, 255, 0))
cv2.imwrite('output_detection.png', img)
Here is a basic example of SDK C++ API:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include "mmdeploy/detector.hpp"
int main() {
const char* device_name = "cuda";
int device_id = 0;
std::string model_path = "work_dirs/rtmdet-sdk";
std::string image_path = "demo/resources/det.jpg";
// 1. load model
mmdeploy::Model model(model_path);
// 2. create predictor
mmdeploy::Detector detector(model, mmdeploy::Device{device_name, device_id});
// 3. read image
cv::Mat img = cv::imread(image_path);
// 4. inference
auto dets = detector.Apply(img);
// 5. deal with the result. Here we choose to visualize it
for (int i = 0; i < dets.size(); ++i) {
const auto& box = dets[i].bbox;
fprintf(stdout, "box %d, left=%.2f, top=%.2f, right=%.2f, bottom=%.2f, label=%d, score=%.4f\n",
i, box.left, box.top, box.right, box.bottom, dets[i].label_id, dets[i].score);
if (bboxes[i].score < 0.3) {
continue;
}
cv::rectangle(img, cv::Point{(int)box.left, (int)box.top},
cv::Point{(int)box.right, (int)box.bottom}, cv::Scalar{0, 255, 0});
}
cv::imwrite("output_detection.png", img);
return 0;
}
To build C++ example, please add MMDeploy package in your CMake project as following:
find_package(MMDeploy REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(${name} PRIVATE mmdeploy ${OpenCV_LIBS})
We support RTMDet-Ins ONNXRuntime and TensorRT deployment after MMDeploy v1.0.0rc2. And its deployment process is almost consistent with the detection model.
Please refer to the MMDeploy-1.x installation guide to install the latest version. Please remember to replace the pre-built package with the latest version. The v1.0.0rc2 package can be downloaded from v1.0.0rc2 release page.
Step2. Convert Model
This step has no difference with the previous tutorial. The only thing you need to change is switching to the RTMDet-Ins deploy config:
- If you want to use ONNXRuntime, please use
configs/mmdet/instance-seg/instance-seg_rtmdet-ins_onnxruntime_static-640x640.py
as the deployment config. - If you want to use TensorRT, please use
configs/mmdet/instance-seg/instance-seg_rtmdet-ins_tensorrt_static-640x640.py
.
Here we take converting RTMDet-Ins-s to TensorRT as an example:
# go to the mmdeploy folder
cd ${PATH_TO_MMDEPLOY}
# download RTMDet-s checkpoint
wget -P checkpoint https://download.openmmlab.com/mmdetection/v3.0/rtmdet/rtmdet-ins_s_8xb32-300e_coco/rtmdet-ins_s_8xb32-300e_coco_20221121_212604-fdc5d7ec.pth
# run the command to start model conversion
python tools/deploy.py \
configs/mmdet/instance-seg/instance-seg_rtmdet-ins_tensorrt_static-640x640.py \
${PATH_TO_MMDET}/configs/rtmdet/rtmdet-ins_s_8xb32-300e_coco.py \
checkpoint/rtmdet-ins_s_8xb32-300e_coco_20221121_212604-fdc5d7ec.pth \
demo/resources/det.jpg \
--work-dir ./work_dirs/rtmdet-ins \
--device cuda:0 \
--show
If the script runs successfully, you will see the following files:
|----work_dirs
|----rtmdet-ins
|----end2end.onnx # ONNX model
|----end2end.engine # TensorRT engine file
After this, you can check the inference results with MMDeploy Model Converter API:
from mmdeploy.apis import inference_model
result = inference_model(
model_cfg='${PATH_TO_MMDET}/configs/rtmdet/rtmdet-ins_s_8xb32-300e_coco.py',
deploy_cfg='${PATH_TO_MMDEPLOY}/configs/mmdet/instance-seg/instance-seg_rtmdet-ins_tensorrt_static-640x640.py',
backend_files=['work_dirs/rtmdet-ins/end2end.engine'],
img='demo/resources/det.jpg',
device='cuda:0')
In MMDetection's config, we use model
to set up detection algorithm components. In addition to neural network components such as backbone
, neck
, etc, it also requires data_preprocessor
, train_cfg
, and test_cfg
. data_preprocessor
is responsible for processing a batch of data output by dataloader. train_cfg
, and test_cfg
in the model config are for training and testing hyperparameters of the components.Taking RTMDet as an example, we will introduce each field in the config according to different function modules:
model = dict(
type='RTMDet', # The name of detector
data_preprocessor=dict( # The config of data preprocessor, usually includes image normalization and padding
type='DetDataPreprocessor', # The type of the data preprocessor. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.data_preprocessors.DetDataPreprocessor
mean=[103.53, 116.28, 123.675], # Mean values used to pre-training the pre-trained backbone models, ordered in R, G, B
std=[57.375, 57.12, 58.395], # Standard variance used to pre-training the pre-trained backbone models, ordered in R, G, B
bgr_to_rgb=False, # whether to convert image from BGR to RGB
batch_augments=None), # Batch-level augmentations
backbone=dict( # The config of backbone
type='CSPNeXt', # The type of backbone network. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.backbones.CSPNeXt
arch='P5', # Architecture of CSPNeXt, from {P5, P6}. Defaults to P5
expand_ratio=0.5, # Ratio to adjust the number of channels of the hidden layer. Defaults to 0.5
deepen_factor=1, # Depth multiplier, multiply number of blocks in CSP layer by this amount. Defaults to 1.0
widen_factor=1, # Width multiplier, multiply number of channels in each layer by this amount. Defaults to 1.0
channel_attention=True, # Whether to add channel attention in each stage. Defaults to True
norm_cfg=dict(type='SyncBN'), # Dictionary to construct and config norm layer. Defaults to dict(type=’BN’, requires_grad=True)
act_cfg=dict(type='SiLU', inplace=True)), # Config dict for activation layer. Defaults to dict(type=’SiLU’)
neck=dict(
type='CSPNeXtPAFPN', # The type of neck is CSPNeXtPAFPN. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.necks.CSPNeXtPAFPN
in_channels=[256, 512, 1024], # Number of input channels per scale
out_channels=256, # Number of output channels (used at each scale)
num_csp_blocks=3, # Number of bottlenecks in CSPLayer. Defaults to 3
expand_ratio=0.5, # Ratio to adjust the number of channels of the hidden layer. Default: 0.5
norm_cfg=dict(type='SyncBN'), # Config dict for normalization layer. Default: dict(type=’BN’)
act_cfg=dict(type='SiLU', inplace=True)), # Config dict for activation layer. Default: dict(type=’Swish’)
bbox_head=dict(
type='RTMDetSepBNHead', # The type of bbox_head is RTMDetSepBNHead. RTMDetHead with separated BN layers and shared conv layers. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.dense_heads.RTMDetSepBNHead
num_classes=80, # Number of categories excluding the background category
in_channels=256, # Number of channels in the input feature map
stacked_convs=2, # Whether to share conv layers between stages. Defaults to True
feat_channels=256, # Feature channels of convolutional layers in the head
anchor_generator=dict( # The config of anchor generator
type='MlvlPointGenerator', # The methods use MlvlPointGenerator. Refer to https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/blob/main/mmdet/models/task_modules/prior_generators/point_generator.py#L92
offset=0, # The offset of points, the value is normalized with corresponding stride. Defaults to 0.5
strides=[8, 16, 32]), # Strides of anchors in multiple feature levels in order (w, h)
bbox_coder=dict(type='DistancePointBBoxCoder'), # Distance Point BBox coder.This coder encodes gt bboxes (x1, y1, x2, y2) into (top, bottom, left,right) and decode it back to the original. Refer to https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/blob/main/mmdet/models/task_modules/coders/distance_point_bbox_coder.py#L9
loss_cls=dict( # Config of loss function for the classification branch
type='QualityFocalLoss', # Type of loss for classification branch. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.losses.QualityFocalLoss
use_sigmoid=True, # Whether sigmoid operation is conducted in QFL. Defaults to True
beta=2.0, # The beta parameter for calculating the modulating factor. Defaults to 2.0
loss_weight=1.0), # Loss weight of current loss
loss_bbox=dict( # Config of loss function for the regression branch
type='GIoULoss', # Type of loss. Refer to https://mmdetection.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#mmdet.models.losses.GIoULoss
loss_weight=2.0), # Loss weight of the regression branch
with_objectness=False, # Whether to add an objectness branch. Defaults to True
exp_on_reg=True, # Whether to use .exp() in regression
share_conv=True, # Whether to share conv layers between stages. Defaults to True
pred_kernel_size=1, # Kernel size of prediction layer. Defaults to 1
norm_cfg=dict(type='SyncBN'), # Config dict for normalization layer. Defaults to dict(type='BN', momentum=0.03, eps=0.001)
act_cfg=dict(type='SiLU', inplace=True)), # Config dict for activation layer. Defaults to dict(type='SiLU')
train_cfg=dict( # Config of training hyperparameters for ATSS
assigner=dict( # Config of assigner
type='DynamicSoftLabelAssigner', # Type of assigner. DynamicSoftLabelAssigner computes matching between predictions and ground truth with dynamic soft label assignment. Refer to https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/blob/main/mmdet/models/task_modules/assigners/dynamic_soft_label_assigner.py#L40
topk=13), # Select top-k predictions to calculate dynamic k best matches for each gt. Defaults to 13
allowed_border=-1, # The border allowed after padding for valid anchors
pos_weight=-1, # The weight of positive samples during training
debug=False), # Whether to set the debug mode
test_cfg=dict( # Config for testing hyperparameters for ATSS
nms_pre=30000, # The number of boxes before NMS
min_bbox_size=0, # The allowed minimal box size
score_thr=0.001, # Threshold to filter out boxes
nms=dict( # Config of NMS in the second stage
type='nms', # Type of NMS
iou_threshold=0.65), # NMS threshold
max_per_img=300), # Max number of detections of each image
)