Caffe的Matlab接口MatCaffe教程

在Matlab下利用Caffe的Matlab接口MatCaffe，首先需要编译Caffe的Matlab接口，相关教程参见如下：

1. 关于Windows下编译Caffe的Matlab接口

2. Windows下VS2013编译Caffe完全手册

编译配置成功后方可使用Caffe的Matlab接口，具体使用教程如下：

Examples below shows detailed usages：

model = './models/bvlc_reference_caffenet/deploy.prototxt';
weights = './models/bvlc_reference_caffenet/bvlc_reference_caffenet.caffemodel';

Set mode and device

Mode and device should always be set BEFORE you create a net or a solver.

Use CPU:

caffe.set_mode_cpu();

Use GPU and specify its gpu_id:

caffe.set_mode_gpu();
caffe.set_device(gpu_id);

Create a network and access its layers and blobs

Create a network:

net = caffe.Net(model, weights, 'test'); % create net and load weights

Or

net = caffe.Net(model, 'test'); % create net but not load weights
net.copy_from(weights); % load weights

which creates net object as

  Net with properties:

           layer_vec: [1x23 caffe.Layer]
            blob_vec: [1x15 caffe.Blob]
              inputs: {'data'}
             outputs: {'prob'}
    name2layer_index: [23x1 containers.Map]
     name2blob_index: [15x1 containers.Map]
         layer_names: {23x1 cell}
          blob_names: {15x1 cell}

The two containers.Map objects are useful to find the index of a layer or a blob by its name.

You have access to every blob in this network. To fill blob ‘data’ with all ones:

net.blobs('data').set_data(ones(net.blobs('data').shape));

To multiply all values in blob ‘data’ by 10:

net.blobs('data').set_data(net.blobs('data').get_data() * 10);

Be aware that since Matlab is 1-indexed and column-major, the usual 4 blob dimensions in Matlab are [width, height, channels, num], and width is the fastest dimension. Also be aware that images are in BGR channels. Also, Caffe uses single-precision float data. If your data is not single, set_data will automatically convert it to single.

You also have access to every layer, so you can do network surgery. For example, to multiply conv1 parameters by 10:

net.params('conv1', 1).set_data(net.params('conv1', 1).get_data() * 10); % set weights
net.params('conv1', 2).set_data(net.params('conv1', 2).get_data() * 10); % set bias

Alternatively, you can use

net.layers('conv1').params(1).set_data(net.layers('conv1').params(1).get_data() * 10);
net.layers('conv1').params(2).set_data(net.layers('conv1').params(2).get_data() * 10);

To save the network you just modified:

net.save('my_net.caffemodel');

To get a layer’s type (string):

layer_type = net.layers('conv1').type;

Forward and backward

Forward pass can be done using net.forward or net.forward_prefilled. Function net.forward takes in a cell array of N-D arrays containing data of input blob(s) and outputs a cell array containing data from output blob(s). Function net.forward_prefilled uses existing data in input blob(s) during forward pass, takes no input and produces no output. After creating some data for input blobs like data = rand(net.blobs('data').shape); you can run

res = net.forward({data});
prob = res{1};

Or

net.blobs('data').set_data(data);
net.forward_prefilled();
prob = net.blobs('prob').get_data();

Backward is similar using net.backward or net.backward_prefilled and replacing get_data and set_data with get_diff and set_diff. After creating some gradients for output blobs like prob_diff = rand(net.blobs('prob').shape); you can run

res = net.backward({prob_diff});
data_diff = res{1};

Or

net.blobs('prob').set_diff(prob_diff);
net.backward_prefilled();
data_diff = net.blobs('data').get_diff();

However, the backward computation above doesn’t get correct results, because Caffe decides that the network does not need backward computation. To get correct backward results, you need to set 'force_backward: true' in your network prototxt.

After performing forward or backward pass, you can also get the data or diff in internal blobs. For example, to extract pool5 features after forward pass:

pool5_feat = net.blobs('pool5').get_data();

Reshape

Assume you want to run 1 image at a time instead of 10:

net.blobs('data').reshape([227 227 3 1]); % reshape blob 'data'
net.reshape();

Then the whole network is reshaped, and now net.blobs('prob').shape should be [1000 1];

Training

Assume you have created training and validation lmdbs following our ImageNET Tutorial, to create a solver and train on ILSVRC 2012 classification dataset:

solver = caffe.Solver('./models/bvlc_reference_caffenet/solver.prototxt');

which creates solver object as

  Solver with properties:

          net: [1x1 caffe.Net]
    test_nets: [1x1 caffe.Net]

To train:

solver.solve();

Or train for only 1000 iterations (so that you can do something to its net before training more iterations)

solver.step(1000);

To get iteration number:

iter = solver.iter();

To get its network:

train_net = solver.net;
test_net = solver.test_nets(1);

To resume from a snapshot “your_snapshot.solverstate”:

solver.restore('your_snapshot.solverstate');

Input and output

caffe.io class provides basic input functions load_image and read_mean. For example, to read ILSVRC 2012 mean file (assume you have downloaded imagenet example auxiliary files by running ./data/ilsvrc12/get_ilsvrc_aux.sh):

mean_data = caffe.io.read_mean('./data/ilsvrc12/imagenet_mean.binaryproto');

To read Caffe’s example image and resize to [width, height] and suppose we want width = 256; height = 256;

im_data = caffe.io.load_image('./examples/images/cat.jpg');
im_data = imresize(im_data, [width, height]); % resize using Matlab's imresize

Keep in mind that width is the fastest dimension and channels are BGR, which is different from the usual way that Matlab stores an image. If you don’t want to use caffe.io.load_image and prefer to load an image by yourself, you can do

im_data = imread('./examples/images/cat.jpg'); % read image
im_data = im_data(:, :, [3, 2, 1]); % convert from RGB to BGR
im_data = permute(im_data, [2, 1, 3]); % permute width and height
im_data = single(im_data); % convert to single precision

Also, you may take a look at caffe/matlab/demo/classification_demo.m to see how to prepare input by taking crops from an image.

We show in caffe/matlab/hdf5creation how to read and write HDF5 data with Matlab. We do not provide extra functions for data output as Matlab itself is already quite powerful in output.

Clear nets and solvers

Call caffe.reset_all() to clear all solvers and stand-alone nets you have created.

详见！