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From: Edmond Yoo <hj3yoo@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:12:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 This is a fork of [Yolo-v3 and Yolo-v2 for Windows and Linux by AlexeyAB](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet#how-to-compile-on-linux) for creating a custom model for [My MTG card detection project](https://github.com/hj3yoo/MTGCardDetector). 
 
 ## Day ~0: Sep 6th, 2018
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 Uploading all the progresses on the model training for the last few days.
 
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 The second and third problems should easily be solved by further augmenting the dataset with random lighting and image skew. I'll have to think more about the first problem, though.
 
 ## Sept 7th, 2018
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 Added several image augmentation techniques to apply to the training set: noise, dropout, light variation, and glaring:
 
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 ## Sept 10th, 2018
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 I've been training a new model with a full YOLOv3 configuration (previous one used Tiny YOLOv3), and it's been taking a lot more resources:
 
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 ## Sept 13th, 2018
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 The training for full YOLOv3 model has turned sour - the loss saturated around 0.45, and didn't seem like it would improve in any reasonable amount of time. 
 
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 Bad news, I couldn't find any repo that has python wrapper for darknet to pursue this project further. There is a [python example](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/blob/master/darknet.py) in the original repo of this fork, but [it doesn't support video input](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/issues/955). Other darknet repos are in the same situation.
 
-I suppose there is a poor man's alternative - feed individual frames from the video into the detection script for image. I'll have to give it a shot.
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+I suppose there is a poor man's alternative - feed individual frames from the video into the detection script for image. I'll have to give it a shot.
+
+
+## Sept 14th, 2018
+
+Thankfully, OpenCV had an implementation for DNN, which supports YOLO as well. They have done quite an amazing job, and the speed isn't too bad, either. I can score about 20~25fps on my tiny YOLO, without using GPU.
+
+
+## Sept 15th, 2018
+
+I tried to do an alternate approach - instead of making model identify cards as annonymous, train the model for EVERY single card. As you may imagine, this isn't sustainable for 10000+ different cards that exists in MTG, but I thought it would be reasonable for classifying 10 different cards.
+
+Result? Suprisingly effective.
+
+<img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/darknet/blob/master/figures/4_detection_result_1.jpg" width="360"> <img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/darknet/blob/master/figures/4_detection_result_2.jpg" width="360"><img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/darknet/blob/master/figures/4_detection_result_3.jpg" width="360"> <img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/darknet/blob/master/figures/4_detection_result_4.png" width="360">
+
+They're of course slightly worse than annonymous detection and impractical for any large number of cardbase, but it was an interesting approach.
+
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+I've made a quick openCV algorithm to extract cards from the image, and it works decently well:
+
+<img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/darknet/blob/master/figures/4_detection_result_5.jpg" width="360">
+
+At the moment, it's fairly limited - the entire card must be shown without obstruction nor cropping, otherwise it won't detect at all.
+
+Unfortunately, there is very little use case for my trained network in this algorithm. It's just using contour detection and perceptual hashing to match the card.
+
+
+## Sept 16th, 2018
+
+I've tweaked the openCV algorithm from yesterday and ran for a demo:
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+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZkRZDyhMRE&feature=youtu.be
+
+## Oct 4th, 2018
+
+With the current model I have, there seems to be little hope - I simply don't have enough knowledge in classical CV technique to separate overlaying cards. Even if I could, perceptual hash will be harder to use if I were to use only a fraction of a card image to classify it.
+
+There is an alternative to venture into instance segmentation with [mask R-CNN](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06870.pdf), at the cost of losing real-time processing speed (and considerably more development time). Maybe worth a shot, although I'd have to nearly start from scratch (other than training data generation).
+
+## Oct 10th, 2018
+
+I've been trying to fiddle with the mask R-CNN using [this repo](https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN)'s implementation, and got to train them with 60 manually labelled image set. The result is not too bad considering such a small dataset was used. However, there was a high FP rate overall (again, probably because of small dataset and the simplistic features of cards).
+
+<img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/mtg_card_detector/blob/master/figures/5_rcnn_result_1.png" width="360"><img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/mtg_card_detector/blob/master/figures/5_rcnn_result_2.png" width="360"><img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/mtg_card_detector/blob/master/figures/5_rcnn_result_3.png" width="360"><img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/mtg_card_detector/blob/master/figures/5_rcnn_result_4.png" width="360"><img src="https://github.com/hj3yoo/mtg_card_detector/blob/master/figures/5_rcnn_result_5.png" width="360">
+
+Although it may be worth to generate large training dataset and train the model more thoroughly, I'm being short on time, as there are other priorities to do. I may revisit this later. I will be cleaning this repo in the next few days, wrapping it up for now.

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