TAO Pretrained Commercial Backbone for DINO

What is Train Adapt Optimize (TAO) Toolkit?

Train Adapt Optimize (TAO) Toolkit is a Python-based AI toolkit for taking purpose-built pre-trained AI models and customizing them with your own data. TAO adapts popular network architectures and backbones to your data, allowing you to train, fine tune, prune, and export highly optimized and accurate AI models for edge deployment.

Pre-trained models accelerate the AI training process and reduce costs associated with large scale data collection, labeling, and training models from scratch. Transfer learning with pre-trained models can be used for AI applications in smart cities, retail, healthcare, industrial inspection, and more.

Build end-to-end services and solutions for transforming pixels and sensor data to actionable insights using TAO DeepStream SDK and TensorRT. These models are suitable for object detection, classification, and segmentation.

DINO Based Object Detection

Object detection is a popular computer vision technique that can detect one or multiple objects in a frame. Object detection will recognize the individual objects in an image and places bounding boxes around the object. This model card contains pretrained weights that may be used as a starting point with the DINO object detection networks in Train Adapt Optimize (TAO) Toolkit to facilitate transfer learning.

It is trained on the NVImageNet that is permitted for commercial uses. Following backbones are supported with DINO networks.

Supported Backbone:

• resnet_50
• gc_vit_xxtiny / gc_vit_xtiny / gc_vit_tiny / gc_vit_small / gc_vit_base / gc_vit_large / gc_vit_large_384
• fan_tiny / fan_small / fan_base

Model Versions

• resnet50 - NVImageNet pre-trained ResNet-50 model for finetune.
• gcvit_xxtiny_nvimagenet - NVImageNet pre-trained GCViT-xxTiny model for finetune.
• gcvit_xtiny_nvimagenet - NVImageNet pre-trained GCViT-xTiny model for finetune.
• gcvit_tiny_nvimagenet - NVImageNet pre-trained GCViT-Tiny model for finetune.
• gcvit_small_nvimagenet - NVImageNet pre-trained GCViT-Small model for finetune.
• gcvit_base_nvimagenet - NVImageNet pre-trained GCViT-Base model for finetune.
• fan_hybrid_tiny_nvimagenet - ImageNet22k pre-trained FAN-Hybrid-Tiny model for finetune. (224 resolution)
• fan_small_hybrid_nvimagenet - ImageNet22k pre-trained FAN-Hybrid-Small model for finetune. (224 resolution)
• fan_base_hybrid_nvimagenet - ImageNet22K pre-trained FAN-Hybrid-Base model finetuned on ImageNet-1k.
• fan_large_hybrid_nvimagenet - ImageNet22K pre-trained FAN-Hybrid-Base model for finetune. (224 resolution)

Instructions to Use Pretrained Backbone Models with TAO

To use these models as pretrained backbone weights for transfer learning, use the snippet below as a template for the model and train component of the experiment spec file to train a DINO model. For more information on the experiment spec file, please refer to the TAO Toolkit User Guide.

model:
  pretrained_backbone_path: /path/to/the/resnet50.pth
  backbone: resnet_50
  train_backbone: True
  num_feature_levels: 4
  dec_layers: 6
  enc_layers: 6
  num_queries: 900
  dropout_ratio: 0.0
  dim_feedforward: 2048

Other TAO Pre-trained Models

• Get TAO Object Detection pre-trained models for YOLOV4, YOLOV3, FasterRCNN, SSD, DSSD, and RetinaNet architectures from NGC model registry

• Get TAO DetectNet_v2 Object Detection pre-trained models for DetectNet_v2 architecture from NGC model registry

• Get TAO EfficientDet Object Detection pre-trained models for DetectNet_v2 architecture from NGC model registry

• Get TAO Instance segmentation pre-trained models for MaskRCNN architecture from NGC

• Get TAO Semantic segmentation pre-trained models for UNet architecture from NGC

• Get Purpose-built models from NGC model registry:

  • PeopleNet
  • TrafficCamNet
  • DashCamNet
  • FaceDetectIR
  • VehicleMakeNet
  • VehicleTypeNet
  • PeopleSegNet
  • PeopleSemSegNet
  • License Plate Detection
  • License Plate Recognition
  • Gaze Estimation
  • Facial Landmark
  • Heart Rate Estimation
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Emotion Recognition
  • FaceDetect
  • 2D Body Pose Net
  • ActionRecognitionNet

License

The licenses to use this model is covered by the Model EULA. By downloading the unpruned or pruned version of the model, you accept the terms and conditions of these licenses

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• Model accuracy is extremely important, learn how you can achieve state of the art accuracy for classification and object detection models using TAO

Suggested reading

• More information on about TAO Toolkit and pre-trained models can be found at the NVIDIA Developer Zone
• Read the TAO getting Started guide and release notes.
• If you have any questions or feedback, please refer to the discussions on TAO Toolkit Developer Forums
• Deploy your model on the edge using DeepStream. Learn more about DeepStream SDK

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