0.4.0 (01/06/2022) Pose Detection, EfficientDet for Object Detection and EfficientNet for Image Recognition

Features:

• Added the PoseNet model family to the ONNX Model Hub. #269
  • MoveNetSinglePoseLighting
  • MoveNetMultiPoseLighting
  • MoveNetSinglePoseThunder
• Added the EfficientDet model family to the ONNX Model Hub. #304
  • EfficientDetD0
  • EfficientDetD1
  • EfficientDetD2
  • EfficientDetD3
  • EfficientDetD4
  • EfficientDetD5
  • EfficientDetD6
• Added SSD-Mobilenet-v1 model to the ONNX Model Hub. #296
• Added EfficientNet model family to the ONNX Model Hub. #264
  • EfficientNetB0 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB1 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB2 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB3 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB4 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB5 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB6 ( + noTop model)
  • EfficientNetB7 ( + noTop model)
• Added NoTop models to the TensorFlow Model Hub. #281
  • VGG'16
  • VGG'19
  • ResNet50
  • ResNet101
  • ResNet152
  • ResNet50V2
  • ResNet101V2
  • ResNet152V2
  • MobileNet
  • MobileNetV2
  • NasNetMobile
  • NasNetLarge
  • DenseNet121
  • DenseNet169
  • DenseNet201
  • Xception
  • Inception
• Added new Dot layer and Conv1DTranspose, Conv2DTranspose, Conv3DTranspose layers.
  #144 #124
• Added new activation functions: SparsemaxActivation and SoftShrinkActivation.
  #171 #170
• Added new Padding, CenterCrop, Convert, Grayscale image preprocessors and Normalizing tensor preprocessor.
  #203 #201
  #202 #204

Examples and tutorials:

• Added an example of Image preprocessing DSL usage with TensorFlow model. #292.
• Added examples for Object Detection with EfficientDet2.
• Added examples for Object Detection with SSD-Mobilenet-v1.
• Added examples for Pose Detection with different models.
• Added examples for Image Recognition with different models from EfficientNet model family.
• Added examples for fine-tuning of noTop ResNet model.
• Added an example for new Image Preprocessing DSL operator Normalize.
• Added an example for Linear Regression model training with two metrics.
• Added an example for new Functional API DSL with ToyResNet model.
• Added an example for training LeNet model with multiple callbacks support.

API changes:

• Introduced new DSL for creating Sequential and Functional models. #133
• Added support for multiple Callbacks in fit(), evaluate(), predict() instead of compile().
  #270
• Added support for multiple metrics. #298
• Added support for the model reset. #271
• Replaced Long parameters with Integer ones in convolutional, average pool and max pool layers.
  #273
• Moved loading section out of image preprocessing. #322
• Remove obsolete CustomPreprocessor interface. #257
• Supported exporting tensor data to BufferedImage #293

Internal API changes:

• Introduced new abstraction for layer parameters -- KVariable. #324
• Moved some of the Layer functionality to the new interfaces ParametrizedLayer and TrainableLayer.
  #217

Bug fixes:

• Added support for correct loading of isTrainable status from Keras. #153
• Generalized Reshape layer to higher dimensions. #249
• Fixed incorrect bounding box coordinates in ObjectDetection and FaceDetection examples. #279
• Fixed toString methods for layer classes. #301
• Set all the optimizers to have useLocking = True #305
• Fixed a bug with silently skipped layers in topological sort. #314
• Fixed loadModelLayersFromConfiguration recursively calling itself. #319
• Fixed GraphTrainableModel#internalPredict for multi-dimensional predictions. #327
• Fixed Orthogonal initializer. #348
• Fixed initialization of the variables in GraphTrainableModel. #355
• Add model output type checks for OnnxInferenceModel. #356
• Fixed IndexOutOfBoundsException in the Dot layer. #357
• Fixed import and export issues:
  • Fixed layers import and export and added tests. #329
    #341 #360
  • Fixed exporting Ones, Zeros, Orthogonal and ParametrizedTruncatedNormal initializers.
    #331
• Updated log4j version.
• Fixed the group of examples with ToyResNet.

Thanks to our contributors:

• Alexey Zinoviev (@zaleslaw)
• Julia Beliaeva (@juliabeliaeva)
• Ansh Tyagi (@therealansh)
• Veniamin Viflyantsev (@knok16)
• @cagriyildirimR
• Wu Han (@wuhanstudio)
• Michal Harakal (@michalharakal)
• xiaoshen (@smallshen)
• @ermolenkodev