Mask_RCNN Transfer learning with Mask

I am trying to use Mask_RCNN for transfer learning for my custom dataset. I want mask_rcnn to detect all the 80 classes from the coco dataset and also i want to add new class for my custom dataset. How to achieve this, can anybody give me a pointer for the same.

as in the samples/balloon it shows that they only trying to detect balloon, in my case if i want to detect all the 80 classes of coco images and then also balloon , how to achieve this ?

Thanks and Regards

Apr 25 '19 17:04 manojmsrit

Also interested in this. I believe it has something to do with setting the number of classes in the config at the beginning of balloon.py `

class BalloonConfig(Config): """Configuration for training on the toy dataset. Derives from the base Config class and overrides some values. """ # Give the configuration a recognizable name NAME = "balloon"

# We use a GPU with 12GB memory, which can fit two images.
# Adjust down if you use a smaller GPU.
IMAGES_PER_GPU = 2

**# Number of classes (including background)
NUM_CLASSES = 1 + 1  # Background + balloon**

# Number of training steps per epoch
STEPS_PER_EPOCH = 100

# Skip detections with < 90% confidence
DETECTION_MIN_CONFIDENCE = 0.9

` I believe bolded is what determines the number of classes used

May 01 '19 21:05 apelli4

+1 for a better overview of transfer learning here. I took a look at some of the descriptions / guides and it isnt clear to me at what point the layers are frozen for transfer learning here?

May 04 '19 13:05 roryw10

@roryw10

https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN/blob/master/samples/shapes/train_shapes.ipynb Under heading Training it says:

Train in two stages:

Only the heads. Here we're freezing all the backbone layers and training only the randomly initialized layers (i.e. the ones that we didn't use pre-trained weights from MS COCO). To train only the head layers, pass layers='heads' to the train() function.

Fine-tune all layers. For this simple example it's not necessary, but we're including it to show the process. Simply pass layers="all to train all layers.

So basically in two stages, train the heads first then finetune entire model.

Does anyone know how to set the config file so it detects only tennis balls?