I have some questions about training on VOC datasets

[lichong0]

During the training and testing processes of a generative model（The fifth step and the sixth step）. Do both the val and test sets in the VOC dataset configs file need to be set to 'seen' or unseen ?
val=dict(
type=dataset_type,
ann_file=data_root + 'VOC2007/ImageSets/Main/val.txt',
img_prefix=data_root + 'VOC2007/',
classes_to_load='seen',
split=split,
pipeline=test_pipeline),
test=dict(
type=dataset_type,
ann_file=data_root + 'VOC2007/ImageSets/Main/test.txt',
img_prefix=data_root + 'VOC2007/',
split=split,
classes_to_load='seen',
pipeline=test_pipeline))

[sandipan211]

In case of VOC, follow this config file. Both should be seen. It has been a while since I uploaded the codes, and I don't exactly remember why we kept them like this. Maybe we have hardcoded something in some intermediate file. But it is correct.

[lichong0]

When to set unsee categories，test？

[lichong0]

In case of VOC, follow this config file. Both should be seen. It has been a while since I uploaded the codes, and I don't exactly remember why we kept them like this. Maybe we have hardcoded something in some intermediate file. But it is correct.

Are the settings the same for ZSD and GZSD?

[sandipan211]

When to set unsee categories，test？

In case of VOC especially, just keep it exactly the same as mentioned in this file.

[sandipan211]

In case of VOC, follow this config file. Both should be seen. It has been a while since I uploaded the codes, and I don't exactly remember why we kept them like this. Maybe we have hardcoded something in some intermediate file. But it is correct.

Are the settings the same for ZSD and GZSD?

For VOC dataset, ZSD/GZSD setting was ill-defined when we did this work. If you look at our paper, for VOC, we have just shown seen and unseen class results - nothing explicitly defined as ZSD/GZSD as in MSCOCO.

To summarize, for VOC we just did one experiment following previous works - just find the results separately on seen and unseen classes and report them. And that experiment shall be done following our command in step 6, replacing with voc related weight files and config files.

Please use the "zsd" flag for evaluation on VOC.