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Can anyone recommend a Tflite Colab Notebook for VOXL2 Training

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  • tomT tom

    @sansoy It should start right away, I would power cycle your voxl2 and try again

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    @tom i did all that and still stuck. could it be whats in the warning about being stuck in fastboot?
    it is the voxl2 and not the voxl2 mini.

    [WARNING] This system image flash is intended only for the following
    platform: VOXL2 (m0054)

          Make sure that the device that will be flashed is correct.
          Flashing a device with an incorrect system image will lead
          the device to be stuck in fastboot.
    
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      @tom i did all that and still stuck. could it be whats in the warning about being stuck in fastboot?
      it is the voxl2 and not the voxl2 mini.

      [WARNING] This system image flash is intended only for the following
      platform: VOXL2 (m0054)

            Make sure that the device that will be flashed is correct.
            Flashing a device with an incorrect system image will lead
            the device to be stuck in fastboot.
      
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      @sansoy As long as you are using the voxl2 SDK and are indeed flashing voxl2 hardware then that warning can be ignored.

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        @sansoy As long as you are using the voxl2 SDK and are indeed flashing voxl2 hardware then that warning can be ignored.

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        @tom hey Tom, i'm having absolutely no luck.
        i've tried 3 times and it still just hangs at

        Would you like to continue with the VOXL2 (m0054) system image flash?

        1. Yes
        2. No
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        I then followed the unbrick instructions and reinstalled everything per
        https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-unbricking/#ubuntu-host

        Got the system back up and running and tried to install the latest SDK again with no luck.
        It just hangs.

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          @tom hey Tom, i'm having absolutely no luck.
          i've tried 3 times and it still just hangs at

          Would you like to continue with the VOXL2 (m0054) system image flash?

          1. Yes
          2. No
            #? 1

          I then followed the unbrick instructions and reinstalled everything per
          https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-unbricking/#ubuntu-host

          Got the system back up and running and tried to install the latest SDK again with no luck.
          It just hangs.

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          UPDATE: Got it working with "sudo" for the install. normally one would get a permission errors and thought maybe that was the issue and sure enough. recommend updating your docs to
          say sudo ./install.sh

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            UPDATE: Got it working with "sudo" for the install. normally one would get a permission errors and thought maybe that was the issue and sure enough. recommend updating your docs to
            say sudo ./install.sh

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            @tom so i trained on a new batch of AR15 images and got really good numbers in terms of losses and mAPs. Ran an unquantized and quantized version in voxl-tflite-server and again nothing is being recognized.

            Here's a link to the tflites, and saved_models with inference results on never before seen images.
            Any insight on how to make these models work in your environment would be awesomely appreciated.

            https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N1pU0jMRTb3rODSfIuETPrBf66m4ody7?usp=drive_link

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              UPDATE: Got it working with "sudo" for the install. normally one would get a permission errors and thought maybe that was the issue and sure enough. recommend updating your docs to
              say sudo ./install.sh

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              @sansoy Interesting, sudo isn't normally required. I'm curious, what linux distro are you running?

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                @tom so i trained on a new batch of AR15 images and got really good numbers in terms of losses and mAPs. Ran an unquantized and quantized version in voxl-tflite-server and again nothing is being recognized.

                Here's a link to the tflites, and saved_models with inference results on never before seen images.
                Any insight on how to make these models work in your environment would be awesomely appreciated.

                https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N1pU0jMRTb3rODSfIuETPrBf66m4ody7?usp=drive_link

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                @sansoy @Thomas-Patton is the ML expert here and I'll let him comment on that front

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                  @sansoy Interesting, sudo isn't normally required. I'm curious, what linux distro are you running?

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                  @tom Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

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                    @tom Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

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                    @sansoy Huh, okay, that's what I run as well.

                    What groups are your default user in? For example, here is mine:

                     ~  groups                                               ok | 10:20:36 AM 
                    tom adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare docker
                    
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                    • tomT tom

                      @sansoy Huh, okay, that's what I run as well.

                      What groups are your default user in? For example, here is mine:

                       ~  groups                                               ok | 10:20:36 AM 
                      tom adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare docker
                      
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                      @tom eve@eve:~$ groups
                      eve adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare

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                        @tom eve@eve:~$ groups
                        eve adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin lxd sambashare

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                        @sansoy Can you try adding your user to the dialout group and seeing if that fixes the issue?

                        sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

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                        • tomT tom

                          @sansoy Can you try adding your user to the dialout group and seeing if that fixes the issue?

                          sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

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                          @tom did that and still no inference.
                          tflite_1705069939.png

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                            @tom did that and still no inference.
                            tflite_1705069939.png

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                            @sansoy That was for fixing the fastboot issue, unrelated

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                              @sansoy That was for fixing the fastboot issue, unrelated

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                              @sansoy

                              When I get some time today I'll try to download your .tflite models and see what's going on. The good news is that the server is at least running! It very well may just be an issue with how the tensor is being parsed.

                              Thomas
                              thomas.patton@modalai.com

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                                @sansoy

                                When I get some time today I'll try to download your .tflite models and see what's going on. The good news is that the server is at least running! It very well may just be an issue with how the tensor is being parsed.

                                Thomas
                                thomas.patton@modalai.com

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                                @sansoy

                                Hey, they just gave me access to the Google Drive folder. Can you confirm that the edgetpu.tflite in the root directory is the file you want me to try and get working?

                                Thomas

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                                  @sansoy

                                  Hey, they just gave me access to the Google Drive folder. Can you confirm that the edgetpu.tflite in the root directory is the file you want me to try and get working?

                                  Thomas

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                                  @thomas i just checked permissions and you have access to all the files and yes to

                                  edgetpu.tflit
                                  ssd-mobilenet-v2-fpnlite-640_quant.tflite
                                  ssd-mobilenet-v2-fpnlite-640.tflite
                                  saved_models/saved_model.pb

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                                    @thomas i just checked permissions and you have access to all the files and yes to

                                    edgetpu.tflit
                                    ssd-mobilenet-v2-fpnlite-640_quant.tflite
                                    ssd-mobilenet-v2-fpnlite-640.tflite
                                    saved_models/saved_model.pb

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                                    @sansoy

                                    Of these 4 models which is the custom trained YOLO model you mentioned above? I can't even get the edgetpu.tflite model to load so I need a little bit more information on how each of these files was generated.

                                    Thomas

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                                      @sansoy

                                      Of these 4 models which is the custom trained YOLO model you mentioned above? I can't even get the edgetpu.tflite model to load so I need a little bit more information on how each of these files was generated.

                                      Thomas

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                                      @thomas here's a yolov5 trained model.
                                      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRbIXdylgx-EOGDLnuWnsytGd2DcTNeY/view?usp=drive_link

                                      I used this instruction set to train a yolov5 model which works well on my mac, rPI4, linux box and nvidia jetson.
                                      https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5/tutorials/train_custom_data/#23-organize-directories

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                                        @thomas here's a yolov5 trained model.
                                        https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRbIXdylgx-EOGDLnuWnsytGd2DcTNeY/view?usp=drive_link

                                        I used this instruction set to train a yolov5 model which works well on my mac, rPI4, linux box and nvidia jetson.
                                        https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5/tutorials/train_custom_data/#23-organize-directories

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                                        @thomas here's the colab notebook i used to create the tflites and quantized tflites
                                        https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QdgpSl63OSQdLTnFwOyP8dxLQ7W0HtmW?usp=sharing

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                                          @thomas here's the colab notebook i used to create the tflites and quantized tflites
                                          https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QdgpSl63OSQdLTnFwOyP8dxLQ7W0HtmW?usp=sharing

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                                          @sansoy

                                          I found the bug in our code that's causing the issue. You can see on this line that a for YOLO models a former employee hardcoded the number of classes to be 80 leading to a segfault when we only have a single class like in your case. Here's what your model looks like on our server with the fix:

                                          7b4e7252-e3f7-4204-be81-abacde3b5c4b-image.png

                                          What I'm going to do is write a patch for voxl-tflite-server that more intelligently reads the number from the labels file. This will be available in our SDK Nightlies and so you'll be able to use the fix tomorrow morning. If you'd like the fix sooner, what I can do is package the new voxl-tflite-server into a .deb so you can deploy it manually to your VOXL. I can help you out with this process if you're not familiar.

                                          Thanks,
                                          Thomas Patton
                                          thomas.patton@modalai.com

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