Caffe Installation Instructions for CPU, Python 3, OpenCV 4

Make sure you've downloaded caffe-master

Open the CMakeList.txt

Compile Caffe from CMakeList 🖥️

We will be modifying the following lines:

1. Set CPU_ONLY mode on

caffe_option(CPU_ONLY  "Build Caffe without CUDA support" ON)

2. Add C++11 standard

if(UNIX OR APPLE)
  set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -fPIC -Wall -std=c++11")
endif()

3. Set Python 3

set(python_version "3" CACHE STRING "Specify which Python version to use")

Optional 👤

1. Doxygen

DeFacto standard tool for generating the documentation

brew install doxygen

2. MATLAB

Set MATLAB Build ON

caffe_option(BUILD_matlab "Build Matlab wrapper" ON IF UNIX OR APPLE)

Then set the following directories:

Compilation 🖲️

4. Set the directories

5. Make sure both configureaation and Generation executed successfully

6. Go to the build directory

make all -j4

7. Install the libraries

make install

8. Run test

make runtest

CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR Error ‼️

If OpenCV Version 4 is installed on your system, you might encountered the following problems:

Solution 🤔

change the followings:

 CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR     -> cv::IMREAD_COLOR 
 CV_LOAD_IMAGE_GRAYSACLE -> cv::IMREAD_GRAYSCALE

Source

Below are the changed Links:

Download the link	Paste in the path
io.cpp	caffe-master/src/caffe/util/
test_io.cpp	caffe-master/src/caffe/test/
window_data_layer.cpp	caffe-master/src/caffe/layers/

Contributing 💭

Pull requests are welcome.

For major changes, please open an issue, then discuss what you would like to change.

License 📜

MIT