caffegen¶
caffegen is a tool for generating caffe model and decoding binary file of caffe model
How caffegen works¶
Some of commands in caffegen use standard input for reading data and standard output for exporting result.
In this case, we strongly recommand you to use pipe, not copy & paste the content of file itself.
Otherwise, caffegen use arguments to pass some directories.
Supported command¶
Basically, caffgen command is used as caffegen [COMMAND] and there are four COMMAND types.
- init : initialize parameters using prototxt.
- encode : make a binary file(caffemodel) using initialized data
- decode : decode a binary file(caffemodel) and reproduce the initialized data
- merge : copy the trained weights from a caffemodel into a prototxt file
How to use each command¶
- Init (Using stdin and stdout)
./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen init- Type the prototxt by yourself
- Then you can get the result on the shell.
cat ./res/BVLCCaffeTests/Convolution_000/test.prototxt | ./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen init- Prototxt will be automatically passed
- Then you can get the result on the shell.
- Encode (Using stdin and stdout)
./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen encode- Type the initialized data by yourself
- Then you can get the result on the shell.
cat ./res/BVLCCaffeTests/Convolution_000/test.prototxt | ./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen init | ./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen encode > Convolution_000.caffemodel- The initialized data will be automatically passed
- The encoded result will be automatically saved in caffemodel file
- Decode (Using stdin and stdout)
cat Convolution_000.caffemodel | ./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen decode- Caffemodel file will be automatically passed
- Then you can get the result on the shell
- Merge (Using arguments)
./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen merge ./res/BVLCCaffeTests/Convolution_000/test.prototxt Convolution_000.caffemodel./build/compiler/caffegen/caffegen merge ./res/BVLCCaffeTests/Convolution_000/test.prototxt Convolution_000.caffemodel > Convolution_000.merged