multipleGIEs.md

How to use multiple YOLO GIEs on DeepStream

NOTE: The deepstream-app does not support multiple primary GIEs. You can only use one YOLO model as primary GIE and the other YOLO models as secondary GIEs (infering the primary detected object). To use 2 or more YOLO models as primary GIE, you need to use a custom code.

• Directory tree
• Change the YoloLayer plugin version
• Compile the libs
• Edit the config_infer_primary files
• Edit the deepstream_app_config file
• Test

Directory tree

1. Download the repo

git clone https://github.com/marcoslucianops/DeepStream-Yolo.git
cd DeepStream-Yolo

2. Create folders for the GIEs and copy the DeepStream-Yolo files to them

3. Copy the class names file to each GIE folder and remane it to labels.txt

4. Copy the onnx or cfg and weights files to each GIE folder

Change the YoloLayer plugin version

Edit the yoloPlugins.h file (line 53), in each GIE nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo folder.

const char* YOLOLAYER_PLUGIN_VERSION {"1"};

To:

const char* YOLOLAYER_PLUGIN_VERSION {"2"};

NOTE: gie2: version = 2 / gie3: version = 3 / gie4: version = 4.

Compile the libs

NOTE: Do it for each GIE folder, replacing the GIE folder name (gie1/nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo).

1. Set the CUDA_VER according to your DeepStream version

export CUDA_VER=XY.Z

• x86 platform

  DeepStream 7.0 / 6.4 = 12.2
  DeepStream 6.3 = 12.1
  DeepStream 6.2 = 11.8
  DeepStream 6.1.1 = 11.7
  DeepStream 6.1 = 11.6
  DeepStream 6.0.1 / 6.0 = 11.4
  DeepStream 5.1 = 11.1
  

• Jetson platform

  DeepStream 7.0 / 6.4 = 12.2
  DeepStream 6.3 / 6.2 / 6.1.1 / 6.1 = 11.4
  DeepStream 6.0.1 / 6.0 / 5.1 = 10.2
  

2. Make the lib

make -C gie1/nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo clean && make -C gie1/nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo

Edit the config_infer_primary files

NOTE: Edit the files according to the model you will use (YOLOv8, YOLOv5, YOLOv4, etc).

NOTE: Do it for each GIE folder.

• Edit the path of the cfg file

  Example for gie1 (Darknet YOLO)

  custom-network-config=gie1/yolo.cfg
  model-file=yolo.weights
  

  Example for gie2 (Darknet YOLO)

  custom-network-config=gie2/yolo.cfg
  model-file=yolo.weights
  

  Example for gie1 (ONNX)

  onnx-file=yolo.onnx
  

  Example for gie2 (ONNX)

  onnx-file=yolo.onnx
  

• Edit the gie-unique-id

  Example for gie1

  gie-unique-id=1
  

  Example for gie2

  gie-unique-id=2
  

• Edit the process-mode

  Example for primary inference engine

  process-mode=1
  

  Example for secondary inference engine (infering the primary detected object)

  process-mode=2
  

  NOTE: In the secondary inference, we need to set which gie it will use to operate

  Add

  operate-on-gie-id=1
  

  To operate on specific class ids

  operate-on-class-ids=0;1;2
  

• Edit batch-size

  Example for primary inference engine

  batch-size=1
  

  Example for secondary inference engine (infering the primary detected object)

  batch-size=16
  

Edit the deepstream_app_config file

NOTE: Add the secondary-gie key after primary-gie key.

Example for 1 secondary-gie (2 inferences):

[secondary-gie0]
enable=1
gpu-id=0
gie-unique-id=2
operate-on-gie-id=1
operate-on-class-ids=0
nvbuf-memory-type=0
config-file=gie2/config_infer_primary.txt

Example for 2 secondary-gie (3 inferences):

[secondary-gie0]
enable=1
gpu-id=0
gie-unique-id=2
operate-on-gie-id=1
operate-on-class-ids=0
nvbuf-memory-type=0
config-file=gie2/config_infer_primary.txt

[secondary-gie1]
enable=1
gpu-id=0
gie-unique-id=3
operate-on-gie-id=1
operate-on-class-ids=0
nvbuf-memory-type=0
config-file=gie3/config_infer_primary.txt

NOTE: Remember to edit primary-gie key

[primary-gie]
enable=1
gpu-id=0
gie-unique-id=1
nvbuf-memory-type=0
config-file=config_infer_primary.txt

To

[primary-gie]
enable=1
gpu-id=0
gie-unique-id=1
nvbuf-memory-type=0
config-file=gie1/config_infer_primary.txt

Test

deepstream-app -c deepstream_app_config.txt

NOTE: During test process, the engine files will be generated in the DeepStream-Yolo folder. When build process is done, for each GIE, move engine file to its respective folder (gie1, gie2, etc).