MoCaE: Mixture of Calibrated Experts Significantly Improves Accuracy in Object Detection

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MoCaE: Mixture of Calibrated Experts Significantly Improves Accuracy in Object Detection
Kemal Oksuz, Selim Kuzucu, Tom Joy, Puneet K. Dokania

Introduction

Combining the strengths of many existing predictors to obtain a Mixture of Experts which is superior to its individual components is an effective way to improve the performance without having to develop new architectures or train a model from scratch. With this repository, we aim to provide the means to construct an effective Mixture of Experts of object detectors through calibration.

Using this repository, you can

• Reproduce single model performances for object detection,
• Reproduce a Deep Ensemble (RS R-CNN x 5 with 43.4 AP), Vanilla MoE (with 43.4 AP) and MoCaE (with 45.5 AP),
• Obtain calibrators for object detectors, and
• Reproduce our DOTA result with MoCaE which is currently the state-of-the-art.

Coming Soon:

• Obtain calibrators for rotated object detectors

Specification of Dependencies

• Please see get_started.md for requirements and installation of mmdetection.

Reproducing Object Detection Results

• Please download this zip file and place it under the root. This provides inference results of the detectors on COCO mini-test.
• Please download the relevant annotations from this Google Drive link

1. Reproducing Object Detection Results in Table 3

• For single models, please run the following command for RS R-CNN, ATSS and PAA respectively:

python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/single_models/rs_r50_fpn_straug_3x_minicoco.py --eval bbox
python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/single_models/atss_r50_fpn_straug_3x_minicoco.py --eval bbox
python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/single_models/paa_r50_fpn_straug_3x_minicoco.py --eval bbox

and obtain the following results:

('bbox_mAP', 0.424), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.621), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.462), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.268), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.463), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.569)

('bbox_mAP', 0.431), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.615), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.471), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.278), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.475), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.542)

('bbox_mAP', 0.432), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.608), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.471), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.27), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.47), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.576)

• To obtain MoCaE of these 3 Detectors, please run the following command,

python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/rs_atss_paa_r50_fpn_straug_3x_minicoco_calibrated_refiningnms.py --eval bbox 

and obtain the following result:

('bbox_mAP', 0.455), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.632), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.5), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.297), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.497), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.593)

• To obtain Vanilla MoE of RS R-CNN, ATSS, PAA (without calibration), please run the following command,

python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/rs_atss_paa_r50_fpn_straug_3x_minicoco_uncalibrated.py --eval bbox 

and obtain the following result:

('bbox_mAP', 0.434), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.625), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.471), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.273), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.473), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.58)

• Finally, to obtain an Example Deep Ensemble (RS R-CNN x 5), we share one of the deep ensembles to keep the size of the calibration.zip lower as a deep ensemble requires several models. To reproduce, RS R-CNN x 5, please run the following command,

python tools/test_ensemble.py configs/calibration/rs_rcnn5_r50_fpn_mstrain_3x_minicoco.py --eval bbox

and obtain the following result:

('bbox_mAP', 0.434), ('bbox_mAP_50', 0.63), ('bbox_mAP_75', 0.477), ('bbox_mAP_s', 0.28), ('bbox_mAP_m', 0.475), ('bbox_mAP_l', 0.57)

2. Calibrating the Object Detectors

Please run the following command,

python tools/analysis_tools/model_calibration.py model_name

where model_name can be any directory name in the calibration directory that you downloaded and unzipped. As an example, if you run

python tools/analysis_tools/model_calibration.py rs_rcnn

you will find the calibrator under calibration/rs_rcnn/calibrators directory and get the following results:

uncalibrated test set error:

ECE =  0.3645087488831893

ACE= 0.2929792825104798

MCE= 0.45415657187482583

calibrated test set error:

ECE =  0.03191429508521918

ACE= 0.08949849505398023

MCE= 0.3724112771554677

Here, we obtain the calibrators with 500 images following how we obtain MoEs. Hence the results for calibrated test error very slightly differ from Table A.12 reporting LaECE using 2.5K images for calibration. As an example, LaECE after calibration here is 3.19 instead of 3.15 in Table A.12. Note that, the uncalibrated test error remains the same as 36.45.

Reproducing Rotated Object Detection Results

• Please download this zip file and place under the root. It produces a directory with the following folder structure:

mocae_rotated_object_detection
├── rotated_lsk
│   ├── calibrators
│   │   ├── IR_class_agnostic_finaldets_ms.pkl
├── rotated_rtmdet
│   ├── calibrators
│   │   ├── IR_class_agnostic_finaldets_ms.pkl
├── work_dirs
│   ├── lsk
│   │   ├── Task1
│   │   │   ├── Task1.zip
│   │   │   ├── ...
│   ├── rtmdet
│   │   ├── Task1
│   │   │   ├── Task1.zip
│   │   │   ├── ...
│   ├── vanilla_moe
│   │   ├── Task1/
│   ├── mocae
│   │   ├── Task1/
├── val_images.npy
├── test_images.npy

• This zip file contains the following:
  • Inference results of the LSKNet (obtained from the official LSKNet GitHub repository),
  • Inference results of the RTMDet (obtained from the mmrotate library),
  • Calibrators for both LSKNet and RTMDet respectively under ./rotated_lsk/IR_class_agnostic_finaldets_ms.pkl and ./rotated_rtmdet/IR_class_agnostic_finaldets_ms.pkl.
  • Image names for both of the val images (val_images.npy) and test images (test_images.npy)

1. Reproducing Rotated Object Detection Results in Table 6

• To reproduce the LSKNet results, directly submit the ./work_dirs/lsk/Task1/Task1.zip file to the official DOTA evaluation server and obtain $\mathrm{AP}_{50} = 81.85$.

• To reproduce the RTMDet results, directly submit the ./work_dirs/rtmdet/Task1/Task1.zip file to the official DOTA evaluation server and obtain $\mathrm{AP}_{50} = 81.32$.

• To generate the Vanilla MoE detections for the test set, please run:

python tools/mocae_rotated_bounding_box.py --calibrate False

Then, zip all of the generated .txt files under ./work_dirs/vanilla_moe/Task1/ and submit the generated zip file to the official DOTA evaluation server to obtain $\mathrm{AP}_{50} = 80.60$.

• To generate the state-of-the-art MoCaE detections for the test set, please run:

python tools/mocae_rotated_bounding_box.py --calibrate True

Then, zip all of the generated .txt files under ./work_dirs/mocae/Task1/ and submit the generated zip file to the official DOTA evaluation server to obtain $\mathrm{AP}_{50} = 82.62$.

2. Calibrating the Rotated Object Detectors - Coming Soon

How to Cite

Please cite the paper if you benefit from our paper or the repository:

@misc{oksuz2024mocae,
      title={MoCaE: Mixture of Calibrated Experts Significantly Improves Object Detection}, 
      author={Kemal Oksuz and Selim Kuzucu and Tom Joy and Puneet K. Dokania},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2309.14976},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}