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ros_opencl_caffe

Warning: This repo is deprecated. For latest ROS wrapper for Intel GPU, please refer to our project ros_openvino_toolkit.

See: https://github.com/intel/ros_openvino_toolkit!!

Introduction

OpenCL Caffe(clCaffe) is an OpenCL backend for Caffe from Intel®. With inference optimized by Intel® OpenCL, clCaffe can be used in most scene in high performance, like objects inference.

This project is a ROS wrapper for OpenCL Caffe, providing following features:

• A ROS service for objects inference in a ROS image message
• A ROS publisher for objects inference in a ROS image message from a RGB camera
• Demo applications to show the capablilities of ROS service and publisher

Prerequisite

• An x86_64 computer with Ubuntu 16.04
• ROS Kinetic
• RGB camera, e.g. Intel® RealSense™, Microsoft® Kinect™ or standard USB camera

Environment Setup

• Install ROS Kinetic Desktop-Full (guide)
• Create a catkin workspace (guide)
• Install clCaffe (guide)
• Create a symbol link in /opt/clCaffe

  sudo ln -s <clCaffe-path> /opt/clCaffe

• Add clCaffe libraries to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/clCaffe/build/lib

• Install ROS package for different cameras as needed. e.g.
  1. Standard USB camera

    sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-usb-cam

  2. Intel® RealSense™ camera
  • Install Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 (guide). Refer here for more details about Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0.
  • Install Intel® RealSense™ ROS (guide)

    cd ~/catkin_ws/src
    git clone https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense.git
    cd  realsense
    git checkout 2.0.0
    cd ~/catkin_ws
    catkin_make

  3. Microsoft® Kinect™ camera

    sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-openni-launch

Building and Installation

  cd ~/catkin_ws/src
  git clone https://github.com/intel/object_msgs
  git clone https://github.com/intel/ros_opencl_caffe
  cd ~/catkin_ws/
  catkin_make
  catkin_make install
  source install/setup.bash

Copy object label file to clCaffe installation location

  cp ~/catkin_ws/src/ros_opencl_caffe/opencl_caffe/resources/voc.txt /opt/clCaffe/data/yolo/

Running the Demo

Inference

1. Standard USB camera

    roslaunch opencl_caffe_launch usb_cam_viewer.launch

2. Intel® RealSense™ camera

    roslaunch opencl_caffe_launch realsense_viewer.launch

3. Microsoft® Kinect™ camera

    roslaunch opencl_caffe_launch kinect_viewer.launch

Service

  roslaunch opencl_caffe_launch opencl_caffe_srv.launch

Test

Use rostest for tests

  source devel/setup.bash
  rostest opencl_caffe service.test
  rostest opencl_caffe detector.test

Known Issues

• Only image messages supported in service demo
• Only test on RealSense D400 series camera, Microsoft Kinect v1 camera and Microsoft HD-300 USB camera

TODO

• Support latest clCaffe

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