I have a network that produces a 4D output tensor where the value at each position in spatial dimensions (~pixel) is to be interpreted as the class probabilities for that po
Just flatten the output to a 2D tensor of size (num_batches, height * width * num_classes)
. You can do this with the Flatten
layer. Ensure that your y
is flattened the same way (normally calling y = y.reshape((num_batches, height * width * num_classes))
is enough).
For your second question, using categorical crossentropy over all width*height
predictions is essentially the same as averaging the categorical crossentropy for each width*height
predictions (by the definition of categorical crossentropy).
It seems that now you can simply do softmax
activation on the last Conv2D
layer and then specify categorical_crossentropy
loss and train on the image without any reshaping tricks or any new loss function. I've tried overfitting with a dummy dataset and it works well. Try it ~ !
inp = keras.Input(...)
# define your model here
out = keras.layers.Conv2D(classes, (1, 1), activation='softmax') (...)
model = keras.Model(inputs=[inp], outputs=[out], name='unet')
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy',
optimizer='adam',
metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(tensor4d, tensor4d)
You can also compile using sparse_categorical_crossentropy
and then train with output of shape (samples, height, width)
where each pixel in the output corresponds to a class label: model.fit(tensor4d, tensor3d)
The idea is that softmax
and categorical_crossentropy
will be applied to the last axis (you can check keras.backend.softmax
and keras.backend.categorical_crossentropy
doc).
PS. I use keras
from tensorflow.keras
(tensorflow 2)
Update: I have trained on my real dataset and it is working as well.
Found this issue to confirm my intuition.
In short : the softmax will take 2D or 3D inputs. If they are 3D keras will assume a shape like this (samples, timedimension, numclasses) and apply the softmax on the last one. For some weird reasons, it doesnt do that for 4D tensors.
Solution : reshape your output to a sequence of pixels
reshaped_output = Reshape((height*width, num_classes))(output_tensor)
Then apply your softmax
new_output = Activation('softmax')(reshaped_output)
And then either you reshape your target tensors to 2D or you just reshape that last layer into (width, height, num_classes).
Otherwise, something I would try if I wasn't on my phone right now is to use a TimeDistributed(Activation('softmax'))
. But no idea if that would work... will try later
I hope this helps :-)
You could also not reshape
anything and define both softmax
and loss
on your own. Here is softmax
which is applied to the last input dimension (like in tf
backend):
def image_softmax(input):
label_dim = -1
d = K.exp(input - K.max(input, axis=label_dim, keepdims=True))
return d / K.sum(d, axis=label_dim, keepdims=True)
and here you have loss
(there is no need to reshape anything):
__EPS = 1e-5
def image_categorical_crossentropy(y_true, y_pred):
y_pred = K.clip(y_pred, __EPS, 1 - __EPS)
return -K.mean(y_true * K.log(y_pred) + (1 - y_true) * K.log(1 - y_pred))
No further reshapes need.