waht's the meaning of 'mask' in YOLOV3.cfg [yolo]

[AhaEdgar]

waht's the meaning of 'mask' in YOLOV3.cfg [yolo]

[yolo]
mask = 6,7,8

[yolo]
mask = 3,4,5


[yolo]
mask = 0,1,2

  if(mask) l.mask = mask;
    else{
        l.mask = calloc(n, sizeof(int));
        for(i = 0; i < n; ++i){
            l.mask[i] = i;
        }
    }

@pjreddie @Broham

[pjreddie]

Every layer has to know about all of the anchor boxes but is only predicting some subset of them. This could probably be named something better but the mask tells the layer which of the bounding boxes it is responsible for predicting. The first yolo layer predicts 6,7,8 because those are the largest boxes and it's at the coarsest scale. The 2nd yolo layer predicts some smallers ones, etc.

[pjreddie]

The layer assumes if it isn't passed a mask that it is responsible for all the bounding boxes, hence the if statement thing.

[AhaEdgar]

@pjreddie Thanks a lot ! One more question, how do we calculate the results of the three [detection] results?

[pjreddie]

i'm not quite sure what you mean, could you clarify?

[pjreddie]

maybe this helps, the [yolo] layers simply apply logistic activation to some of the neurons, mainly the ones predicting (x,y) offset, objectness, and class probabilities. then if you call get_yolo_detections (or something like that) it interprets the output as described in the paper.

[AhaEdgar]

@pjreddie
For example, if there is a dog in a picture, int yolov2, we can adjust the threshold to get the best detection result. it contains 4 bounding box offsets, 1 objectness prediction, and 80 class predictions. However, yolov3 will get a 3-d tensor. there are 3 [detection] layers. yolov3 will predict 3 boxes at each scale so the tensor is N×N×[3∗(4+1+80)] for the 4 bounding box offsets, 1 objectness prediction, and 80 class predictions.

Thus, how do we dispose the 3-d tensor to predict one object?

[Grabber]

@pjreddie <https://github.com/pjreddie>, mask => coanchors?

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:01 PM, jwnsu ***@***.***> wrote: This is similar to Retinanet, an object is assigned to a specific layer/scale based on size of the object during training, each of the yolo layers handles different scales (i.e. intended to predicts object of different sizes )-- it's also ok for 2 layers to predict same object, as follow-on nms will resolve them. You can check Facebook's Retinanet paper for more info. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#558 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAA9cxQVUZGqylnE8IhQtLqx9wtYogzrks5tiUkmgaJpZM4S6fjI> .

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