caffe-net-upgrade

caffe-net-upgrade is a tool which takes a caffemodel or a prototxt file as an input that is defined with V1LayerParameters. (Caffe deprecated definition) . This implementation upgrades to the layer parameters.

Note: This tool doesn't require installation of caffe to upgrade your model.

Pre-requisites

1. Ubuntu 16.04
2. CMake 2.8 or newer download
3. Install the Protobuf library.

Build Instructions

1. Install the respective pre-requisites if not present. Make sure to install libprotobuf-dev and protobuf-compiler
2. Navigate to the caffe-net-upgrade folder.
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake ../
6. make

This automatically builds a executable in the build folder.

Usage:

    % upgrade_layer_parameters <net.caffemodel | net.prototxt> [output_file_prefix]

Example 1 : Upgrade VGG caffemodel

Download the VGG-Net 19 Layer caffemodel from the following site which is trained with V1LayerParameters here

Execute the following command :

    % upgrade_layer_parameters VGG.caffemodel output

This upgrades the caffemodel and writes into a new caffemodel named output.caffemodel.

Example 2 : Upgrade VGG prototxt

Download the VGG-Net 19 Layers prototxt defenition from the following site defined with V1LayerParameters here

Execute the following command:

    % upgrade_layer_parameters vgg.prototxt output

This upgrades the prototxt defenition and writes into a new file named output.prototxt