How to input multiple N-D arrays to a net in caffe?

问题

I want to create a custom loss layer for semantic segmentation in caffe that requires multiple inputs. I wish this loss function to have an additional input factor in order to penalize the miss detection in small objects.

To do that I have created an image GT that contains for each pixel a weight. If the pixel belongs to a small object the weight is high.

I am newbie in caffe and I do not know how to feed my net with three 2-D signals at the same time (image, gt-mask and the per-pixel weights). I have doubts regarding how is caffe doing the correspondence between rgb data and gt data.
I want to expand this in order to have 2 gt one for the class label image and the other to put this factor in the loss function.

Can you give some hint in order to achive that?

Thanks,

回答1:

You want to caffe to use several N-D signals for each training sample. You are concerned with the fact that the default "Data" layer can only handle one image as a training sample.
There are several solutions for this concern:

Using several "Data" layers (as was done in the model you linked to). In order to sync between the three "Data" layers you'll have you need to know that caffe reads the samples from the underlying LMDB sequentially. So, if you prepare your three LMDBs in the same order caffe will read one sample at a time from each of the LMDBs in the order in which the samples were put there, so the three inputs will be in sync during training/validation.
Note that convert_imageset has a 'shuffle' flag, do NOT use it as it will shuffle your samples differently in each of the three LMDBs and you will have no sync. You are strongly advised to shuffle the samples yourself before preparing the LMDBs but in a way that the same "shuffle" is applied to all three inputs leaving them in sync with each other.
Using 5 channel input. caffe can store N-D data in LMDB and not only color/gray images. You can use python to create LMDB with each "image" is a 5-channel array with the first three channels are image's RGB and the last two are the ground-truth labels and the weight for the per-pixel loss.
In your model you only need to add a "Slice" layer on top of your "Data":
```
layer {
  name: "slice_input"
  type: "Slice"
  bottom: "raw_input" # 5-channel "image" stored in LMDB
  top: "rgb"
  top: "gt"
  top: "weight"
  slice_param { 
    axis: 1
    slice_point: 3
    slice_point: 4
  }
}
```
Using "HDF5Data" layer (my personal favorite). You can store your inputs in a binary hdf5 format and have caffe read from these files. Using "HDF5Data" is much more flexible in caffe and allows you to shape the inputs as much as you like. In your case you need to prepare a binary hdf5 file with three "datasets": 'rgb', 'gt' and 'weight'. You need to make sure the samples are synced when you create the hdf5 file(s). Once you have the, ready you can have a "HDF5Data" layer with three "top"s ready to be used.
Write your own "Python" input layer. I will not go into the details here. But you can implement your own input layer in python. See this thread for more details.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45175308/how-to-input-multiple-n-d-arrays-to-a-net-in-caffe

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