BinVPR

BinVPR is a BNN designed for VPR and loop closure detection in particular.

This repository shares several tool for training and deploying BinVPR.

main.py is the only file you need for:
- Training BinVPR and the other BNNs presented in our paper.
- Exporting a model in Larq-Compute-Engine format for ARM64 cpus (i.e. RPI4).
- Computing an image descriptor

The project has been developed within [Vscode].

Software Requirements

The main python3 packages required to use the provided code are the following.

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 2 Commits
__pycache__		__pycache__
config		config
datasets		datasets
functions		functions
load_data		load_data
models		models
utils		utils
.gitattributes		.gitattributes
README.md		README.md
dataset_presets.py		dataset_presets.py
experiment_presets.py		experiment_presets.py
features_helpers.py		features_helpers.py
main.py		main.py
model_factory.py		model_factory.py
operation_modes.py		operation_modes.py
training_utility.py		training_utility.py