Yes, that’s what I had in mine, but at the end it’s your decision. About the
model either is fine, you can select whatever you find more interesting.

> On 17. Mar 2021, at 10:45, Aakash kaushik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> HI Marcus,
> 
> Thank you so much for reaching back, So just to clarify i would keep the 
> deliverables to just two which will be:
> 
> 1. Semantic segmentation dataloader in the format of COCO dataset .
> 2. One semantic segmentation model 
> 
> If I understood you correctly, will you be able to help me decide which kind 
> of model I should add, should i go for a model that is more generally used 
> such as U-Net or one from the above list that PyTorch has ?
> 
> Best,
> Aakash 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:55 PM Marcus Edel <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello Aakash,
> 
> thanks for the interest in the project and all the contributions; what you 
> proposed
> looks quite useful to me and as you already pointed out would integrate 
> really well
> with some of the existing functionalities.
> 
> I guess for loading segmentation datasets we will stick with a common format 
> e.g.
> COCO, and add support for the data loader and potentially add support for 
> other
> formats later?
> 
> One remark about the scope, you might want to remove one model from the list, 
> and
> add a note to the proposal something along the lines of, if there is time 
> left at the end
> of the summer, I propose to work on z, but the focus is on x and y.
> 
> I hope what I said was useful; please don't hesitate to ask if anything needs 
> clarification.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
>> On 16. Mar 2021, at 00:16, Aakash kaushik <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey everyone,
>> 
>> My name is Aakash Kaushik <https://github.com/Aakash-kaushik> and I have 
>> been contributing for some time specifically on the ANN codebase in mlpack.
>> 
>> And the project idea that is ready to use Models in mlpack peaks my 
>> interest. So initially i would like to propose a data loader and 2 models 
>> for semantic segmentation because i see that the data loaders for image 
>> classification and object detection are already there and including a couple 
>> of models and a data loader in GSOC for semantic segmentation will open the 
>> gates for further contribution of models in all three fields as they would 
>> only need to worry about the model and not loading the data and also will 
>> have some reference models in that field
>> 
>> So the data loader would be capable of taking up image segmentation data 
>> that is the real image, segmentation map, segmentation map to class mapping, 
>> and for the models i am a bit confused as if we want some basic nets such as 
>> U-nets or a combination of both a basic net and state of the art model, or 
>> two state of the art model. Pytorch supports couple of models in the 
>> semantic segmentation fields which are:
>> 
>> 1. FCN ResNet50, ResNet101
>> 2. DeepLabV3 ResNet50, ResNet101, MobileNetV3-Large
>> 3. LR-ASPP MobileNetV3-Large
>> 
>> And so i should be able to convert their weights from pytorch to mlpack by 
>> modifying the utility created by kartik dutt which is 
>> mlpack-PyTorch-Weight-Translator 
>> <https://github.com/kartikdutt18/mlpack-PyTorch-Weight-Translator>
>> 
>> I am trying to keep the deliverables to just three which is a data loader 
>> and 2 models as the GSOC period is reduced to just 1.5 months and for these 
>> three things i would have to write tests, documentation and example usage in 
>> the example repository. 
>> 
>> And before this work as we are in the process of removing boost visitors 
>> from the ANN codebase and had couple of major changes to the mlpack codebase 
>> the models repo wasn't able to keep up with it so my main goal before GSOC 
>> starts would be to work on the PR that is to  Swap boost::variant with 
>> vtable <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/2777> and then make changes to 
>> the code in models repo to adjust the change in boost visitors, 
>> serialization and porting tests to catch2. 
>> 
>> I wanted to hear from you if this is the right path and if the number of 
>> deliverables are right for this and help in choosing the exact models that i 
>> should pick that would be the most helpful or beneficial to the library. 
>> 
>> Best, 
>> Aakash  
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