Iteration Plan v1.3.4 - May 2021

[ZwwWayne]

MMCV v1.3.2 and v1.3.3 have been released.
We list our plan for v1.3.4, which will be released in the middle of May.
The PRs from the communities will also be listed here.
Thus, developers could comprehensively know the plan and the progress.

Features:

• Support triangular CyclicLrUpdator ([Enhancement] LR triangular #1001)
• Add test util for checking stand-alone python scripts (Add test util for checking stand-alone python scripts #1007)
• Add step momentum updater to support MMDet3D ([Enhance] Add step momentum updater to support MMDet3D #1011)
• Add pixel group operators that will be used in MMOCR (Add pixel group and contour expand ops #993)
• Enable exporting to onnx for PointRend ([Feature] enable exporting to onnx for PointRend #953)
• Fix encoding issue in windows environment ([Fix] Read in rb mode then decode #983)
• Support corner_pool related custom operators for onnxruntime in mmcv (Support corner_pool related custom operators for onnxruntime in mmcv #997 )
• Support custom operators cummax and cummin for onnxruntime Support custom operators cummax and cummin for onnxruntime #1010
• Support saving and loading hook_msgs in checkpoint (Load hook_msgs when resume checkpoint #962)

Enhancements:

• Set priority of default hooks in runner Add custom hook by config file #970
• Update weight initialization in cnn.md [Docs] Update weight initialization in cnn.md #912

Fixes:

• Fix DCN fp16 [Fix] Fix DCN fp16 #1014
• Fix the bug of iteration number in val flow [Fix] Fix wrong iter number and progress number in the logging during val/test time #914

If you have created a PR and wish it to be merged in this version, feel free to leave a message in this issue. We will update our plan accordingly here.

[v-qjqs]

Hi, mmcv::CornerPool custom operator for onnxruntime is supported here.

[fcakyon]

@ZwwWayne it would be great if neptune.ai logger hook would be added in the next release: #1025

[ZwwWayne]

@ZwwWayne it would be great if neptune.ai logger hook would be added in the next release: #1025

OK, let's try to make it in the next release.