mAP (mean Average Precision)

CLI Tool & importable library for evaluating object detection performance with mAP (mean Average Precision) scores.

The higher your mAP score the better your model is performing.

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#Citation & Contributions

This repository is a fork of Cartucho/mAP and further developments have been made to allow this codebase to be more usable as a library as well as via a CLI tool.

1. João Cartucho - Imperial College London

   • credit for original scripts & paper submission, explanation, etc.

2. Kausthub Krishnamurthy

   • while at Mission Systems Pty. Ltd. conversion to CLI flexible tool and importable library to allow this codebase to be used programatically within other Python programs.

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Requirements

PyQt5

Install PyQt5 the right way - the pip3 installation can be a little unstable.

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5  
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools

pip packages

pip3 install requirements.txt

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Usage

evaluate_mAP_scores.py

python3 evaluate_mAP_scores.py [-h] -pd PREDICTION_DIR -gt GROUND_TRUTH_DIR [-id IMAGE_DIR]
                [-od OUTPUT_DIR] [-a] [-np] [-q] [-i IGNORE [IGNORE ...]]
                [--set-class-iou SET_CLASS_IOU [SET_CLASS_IOU ...]]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -pd PREDICTION_DIR, --prediction_dir PREDICTION_DIR
                        path to predicted annotations
  -gt GROUND_TRUTH_DIR, --ground_truth_dir GROUND_TRUTH_DIR
                        path to ground truth annotations
  -id IMAGE_DIR, --image_dir IMAGE_DIR
                        path to images
  -od OUTPUT_DIR, --output_dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        path to output files
  -a, --animate         show animation
  -np, --no-plot        no plot is shown.
  -q, --quiet           minimalistic console output.
  -i IGNORE [IGNORE ...], --ignore IGNORE [IGNORE ...]
                        ignore a list of classes.
  --set-class-iou SET_CLASS_IOU [SET_CLASS_IOU ...]
                        set IoU for a specific class.

Working Example

 python evaluate_mAP_scores.py \
 -pd input/detection-results \
 -gt input/ground-truth \
 -id input/images-optional/ \
 -od ~/out/mAP/example

N.B.: including an image directory with -id is purely optional if you want to see the animation - in which case you will need the -a flag.

utils

Utility	Type	Description
convert_annotations	CLI & Library	Converts annotations styles depending on filetype for the purpose of mAP score calculation - simplified function call for the other utils modules.
convert_darkflow_json_to_pvoc_xml	CLI & Library	Converts darkflow style json annotations to Pascal VOC XML format.
convert_darkflow_json_to_xyxy_txt	CLI & Library	Converts xml annotations to space delimited file per image file with each row being an object in the format <left/xmin> <top/ymin> <right/xmax> <bottom/ymax>.
convert_pvoc_xml_to_darkflow_json	CLI & Library	Converts Pascal VOC XML files to Darkflow style json annotations
convert_pvoc_xml_to_xyxy_txt	CLI & Library	Converts darkflow style json annotations to space delimited file per image file with each row being an object in the format <left/xmin> <top/ymin> <right/xmax> <bottom/ymax>.
convert_pvoc_xml_to_yolo_lxywh_txt	CLI & Library	Converts darkflow style json annotations to space delimited file per image file with each row being an object in the format <norm_bbox_centre_x> <norm_bbox_centre_y> <norm_bbox_width> <norm_bbox_height>.

scripts/extra

Collection of python scripts that convert from different annotation formats to the format required for this tool. These are from the original repository and are not yet folded into the new library & CLI structure.

convert_gt_xml is an example of a script that has been moved from scripts/extra to utils after being refactored, and can be imported into other python scripts.

Consider this directory a "to do" list for conversion capabilities. At this stage there is no urgent intention to convert these other scripts - should there be a need feel free to convert it in the same manner and create a pull request.

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Explanation of mAP Score Calculation

N.B.: This explanation is from the original repository - authored by João Cartucho - I've left this as is because it's a fantastic explanation of mAP scores.

This code will evaluate the performance of your neural net for object recognition.

In practice, a higher mAP value indicates a better performance of your neural net, given your ground-truth and set of classes.

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The performance of your neural net will be judged using the mAP criterium defined in the PASCAL VOC 2012 competition. We simply adapted the official Matlab code into Python (in our tests they both give the same results).

First (1.), we calculate the Average Precision (AP), for each of the classes present in the ground-truth. Finally (2.), we calculate the mAP (mean Average Precision) value.

1. Calculate AP

For each class:

First, your neural net detection-results are sorted by decreasing confidence and are assigned to ground-truth objects. We have "a match" when they share the same label and an IoU >= 0.5 (Intersection over Union greater than 50%). This "match" is considered a true positive if that ground-truth object has not been already used (to avoid multiple detections of the same object).

Using this criterium, we calculate the precision/recall curve. E.g:

Then we compute a version of the measured precision/recall curve with precision monotonically decreasing (shown in light red), by setting the precision for recall r to the maximum precision obtained for any recall r' > r.

Finally, we compute the AP as the area under this curve (shown in light blue) by numerical integration. No approximation is involved since the curve is piecewise constant.

2. Calculate mAP

We calculate the mean of all the AP's, resulting in an mAP value from 0 to 100%. E.g:

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Annotation Format

This section is an excerpt from the original.

In the scripts/extra folder you can find additional scripts to convert PASCAL VOC, darkflow and YOLO files into the required format.

Create the ground-truth files

• Create a separate ground-truth text file for each image.
• Use matching names for the files (e.g. image: "image_1.jpg", ground-truth: "image_1.txt").
• In these files, each line should be in the following format:

  <class_name> <left> <top> <right> <bottom> [<difficult>]
  

• The difficult parameter is optional, use it if you want the calculation to ignore a specific detection.
• E.g. "image_1.txt":

  tvmonitor 2 10 173 238
  book 439 157 556 241
  book 437 246 518 351 difficult
  pottedplant 272 190 316 259
  

Create the detection-results files

• Create a separate detection-results text file for each image.
• Use matching names for the files (e.g. image: "image_1.jpg", detection-results: "image_1.txt").
• In these files, each line should be in the following format:

  <class_name> <confidence> <left> <top> <right> <bottom>
  

• E.g. "image_1.txt":

  tvmonitor 0.471781 0 13 174 244
  cup 0.414941 274 226 301 265
  book 0.460851 429 219 528 247
  chair 0.292345 0 199 88 436
  book 0.269833 433 260 506 336
  

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