Convert a PaddlePaddle Model to ONNX and OpenVINO IR

This tutorial is also available as a Jupyter notebook that can be cloned directly from GitHub. See the installation guide for instructions to run this tutorial locally on Windows, Linux or macOS.

This notebook shows how to convert a MobileNetV3 model from PaddleHub, pretrained on the ImageNet dataset, to OpenVINO IR. It also shows how to perform classification inference on a sample image using OpenVINO’s Inference Engine and compares the results of the PaddlePaddle model with the IR model.

Source of the model: https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/hubdetail?name=mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld&en_category=ImageClassification

Preparation

Imports

import os
import time

import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import paddlehub as hub
from IPython.display import Markdown, display
from openvino.inference_engine import IECore
from paddle.static import InputSpec
from PIL import Image
from scipy.special import softmax

Settings

Set IMAGE_FILENAME to the filename of an image to use. Set MODEL_NAME to the PaddlePaddle model to download from PaddleHub. MODEL_NAME will also be the base name for the converted ONNX and IR models. The notebook is tested with the mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld model. Other models may use different preprocessing methods and therefore require some modification to get the same results on the original and converted model.

hub.config.server is the URL to the PaddleHub server. You should not need to modify this setting.

IMAGE_FILENAME = "coco_close.png"

MODEL_NAME = "mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld"
hub.config.server = "https://paddlepaddle.org.cn/paddlehub"

Show Inference on PaddlePaddle Model

In the next cell, we load and download the model from PaddleHub, read and display an image, do inference on that image, and show the top three prediction results.

The first time you run this notebook, the PaddlePaddle model is downloaded from PaddleHub. This may take a while.

classifier = hub.Module(name=MODEL_NAME)

# Load image in BGR format, as specified in model documentation
image = cv2.imread(filename=IMAGE_FILENAME)
plt.imshow(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))
result = classifier.classification(images=[image], top_k=3)
for class_name, softmax_probability in result[0].items():
    print(f"{class_name}, {softmax_probability:.5f}")

[2022-02-18 22:20:26,841] [ WARNING] - The _initialize method in HubModule will soon be deprecated, you can use the __init__() to handle the initialization of the object

Labrador retriever, 0.58936
flat-coated retriever, 0.03327
curly-coated retriever, 0.03317

classifier.classification() takes an image as input and returns the class name of the image. By default the best network result is returned. With the top_k parameter, the best k results are returned, where k is a number. Preprocessing the image and converting the network result to class names is done behind the scenes. The classification model returns an array with floating point values for each of the 1000 ImageNet classes. The higher the value, the more confident the network is that the class number corresponding to that value (the index of that value in the network output array) is the class number for the image. The classification() function converts these numbers to class names and softmax probabilities.

To see PaddlePaddle’s implementation for the classification function and for loading and preprocessing data, uncomment the next two cells.

# classifier??

# import mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.data_feed
# %load $mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.data_feed.__file__

The data_feed module shows that images are normalized, resized and cropped and that the BGR image is converted to RGB before propagating through the network. In the next cell, we import the process_image function that is defined in this file to do inference on the OpenVINO IR model with the same method.

from mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.data_feed import process_image

It is useful to show the output of the process_image() function, to see the effect of cropping and resizing. Because of the normalization, the colors will look strange, and matplotlib will warn about clipping values.

pil_image = Image.open(IMAGE_FILENAME)
processed_image = process_image(pil_image)
print(f"Processed image shape: {processed_image.shape}")
# Processed image is in (C,H,W) format, convert to (H,W,C) to show the image
plt.imshow(np.transpose(processed_image, (1, 2, 0)))

Clipping input data to the valid range for imshow with RGB data ([0..1] for floats or [0..255] for integers).

Processed image shape: (3, 224, 224)

<matplotlib.image.AxesImage at 0x7fd84459f880>

Convert the Model to OpenVINO IR Format

To Convert the PaddlePaddle model to IR, we first convert the model to ONNX, and then convert the ONNX model to IR.

Preparation

PaddlePaddle’s MobileNet model contains information about the input shape, mean and scale values that we can use to convert the model. The next cell shows how to get these values.

input_shape = list(classifier.cpu_predictor.get_input_tensor_shape().values())
print("input shape:", input_shape)
print("mean:", classifier.get_pretrained_images_mean())
print("std:", classifier.get_pretrained_images_std())

input shape: [[-1, 3, 224, 224]]
mean: [[0.485 0.456 0.406]]
std: [[0.229 0.224 0.225]]

Convert PaddlePaddle Model to ONNX

We convert the PaddlePaddle Model to ONNX with the .export_onnx_model() method. This uses Paddle2ONNX. We convert the model with the input shape found in the previous cell.

target_height, target_width = next(iter(input_shape))[2:]
x_spec = InputSpec([1, 3, target_height, target_width], "float32", "x")
print(
    "Exporting PaddlePaddle model to ONNX with target_height "
    f"{target_height} and target_width {target_width}"
)
classifier.export_onnx_model(".", input_spec=[x_spec], opset_version=11)

Exporting PaddlePaddle model to ONNX with target_height 224 and target_width 224

/opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/onnx/helper.py:343: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.10 it will stop working
  is_iterable = isinstance(value, collections.Iterable)

2022-02-18 22:20:28 [INFO]  ONNX model saved in ./mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.onnx

Convert ONNX model to OpenVINO IR Format

Call the OpenVINO Model Optimizer tool to convert the PaddlePaddle model to OpenVINO IR, with FP32 precision. The models are saved to the current directory. We can add the mean values to the model with --mean_values and scale the output with the standard deviation with --scale_values. With these options, it is not necessary to normalize input data before propagating it through the network. However, to get the exact same output as the PaddlePaddle model, it is necessary to preprocess in the image in the same way. For this tutorial, we therefore do not add the mean and scale values to the model, and we use the process_image function, as described in the previous section, to ensure that both the IR and the PaddlePaddle model use the same preprocessing methods. We do show how to get the mean and scale values of the PaddleGAN model, so you can add them to the Model Optimizer command if you want. See the PyTorch/ONNX to OpenVINO notebook for a notebook where these options are used.

Run ! mo --help in a code cell to show an overview of command line options for Model Optimizer. See the Model Optimizer Developer Guide for more information about Model Optimizer.

In the next cell, we first construct the command for Model Optimizer, and then execute this command in the notebook by prepending the command with a !. Model Optimization was succesful if the last lines of the output include [ SUCCESS ] Generated IR version 10 model.

model_xml = f"{MODEL_NAME}.xml"
if not os.path.exists(model_xml):
    mo_command = f'mo --input_model {MODEL_NAME}.onnx --input_shape "[1,3,{target_height},{target_width}]"'
    display(Markdown(f"Model Optimizer command to convert the ONNX model to IR: `{mo_command}`"))
    display(Markdown("_Converting model to IR. This may take a few minutes..._"))
    ! $mo_command
else:
    print(f"{model_xml} already exists.")

Model Optimizer command to convert the ONNX model to IR: mo --input_model mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.onnx --input_shape "[1,3,224,224]"

Converting model to IR. This may take a few minutes…

Model Optimizer arguments:
Common parameters:
    - Path to the Input Model:  /opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/notebooks/103-paddle-onnx-to-openvino/mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.onnx
    - Path for generated IR:    /opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/notebooks/103-paddle-onnx-to-openvino/.
    - IR output name:   mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld
    - Log level:    ERROR
    - Batch:    Not specified, inherited from the model
    - Input layers:     Not specified, inherited from the model
    - Output layers:    Not specified, inherited from the model
    - Input shapes:     [1,3,224,224]
    - Mean values:  Not specified
    - Scale values:     Not specified
    - Scale factor:     Not specified
    - Precision of IR:  FP32
    - Enable fusing:    True
    - Enable grouped convolutions fusing:   True
    - Move mean values to preprocess section:   None
    - Reverse input channels:   False
ONNX specific parameters:
    - Inference Engine found in:    /opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/openvino
Inference Engine version:   2021.4.2-3976-0943ed67223-refs/pull/539/head
Model Optimizer version:    2021.4.2-3976-0943ed67223-refs/pull/539/head
[ SUCCESS ] Generated IR version 10 model.
[ SUCCESS ] XML file: /opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/notebooks/103-paddle-onnx-to-openvino/mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.xml
[ SUCCESS ] BIN file: /opt/home/k8sworker/cibuilds/ov-notebook/OVNotebookOps-80/.workspace/scm/ov-notebook/notebooks/103-paddle-onnx-to-openvino/mobilenet_v3_large_imagenet_ssld.bin
[ SUCCESS ] Total execution time: 12.57 seconds.
[ SUCCESS ] Memory consumed: 164 MB.
It's been a while, check for a new version of Intel(R) Distribution of OpenVINO(TM) toolkit here https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/openvino-toolkit/download.html?cid=other&source=prod&campid=ww_2022_bu_IOTG_OpenVINO-2022-1&content=upg_all&medium=organic or on the GitHub*

Show Inference on OpenVINO Model

Load the IR model, get model information, load the image, do inference, convert the inference to a meaningful result, and show the output. See the Inference Engine API Notebook for more information.

# Load Inference Engine and IR model
ie = IECore()
net = ie.read_network(model=f"{MODEL_NAME}.xml", weights=f"{MODEL_NAME}.bin")
exec_net = ie.load_network(network=net, device_name="CPU")

# Get model input and outputs
input_layer = next(iter(net.input_info))
output_layer = next(iter(net.outputs))

# Read, show, and preprocess input image
# See the "Show Inference on PaddlePaddle Model" section for source of process_image
image = Image.open(IMAGE_FILENAME)
plt.imshow(image)
input_image = process_image(image)

# Do inference
ie_result = exec_net.infer({input_layer: input_image})[output_layer][0]

# Compute softmax probabilities for the inference result and find the top three values
softmax_result = softmax(ie_result)
top_indices = np.argsort(softmax_result)[-3:][::-1]
top_softmax = softmax_result[top_indices]

# Convert the inference results to class names, using the same labels as the PaddlePaddle classifier
for index, softmax_probability in zip(top_indices, top_softmax):
    print(f"{classifier.label_list[index]}, {softmax_probability:.5f}")

Labrador retriever, 0.58936
flat-coated retriever, 0.03327
curly-coated retriever, 0.03317

Timing and Comparison

Measure the time it takes to do inference on fifty images and compare the result. The timing information gives an indication of performance. For a fair comparison, we include the time it takes to process the image. For more accurate benchmarking, use the OpenVINO benchmark tool. Note that many optimizations are possible to improve the performance.

num_images = 50

# PaddlePaddle's classification method expects a BGR numpy array
image = cv2.imread(filename=IMAGE_FILENAME)

# The process_image function expects a PIL image
pil_image = Image.open(fp=IMAGE_FILENAME)

# Show CPU information
ie = IECore()
print(f"CPU: {ie.get_metric('CPU', 'FULL_DEVICE_NAME')}")

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10920X CPU @ 3.50GHz

# Show inference speed on PaddlePaddle model
start = time.perf_counter()
for _ in range(num_images):
    result = classifier.classification(images=[image], top_k=3)
end = time.perf_counter()
time_ir = end - start
print(
    f"PaddlePaddle model on CPU: {time_ir/num_images:.4f} "
    f"seconds per image, FPS: {num_images/time_ir:.2f}\n"
)
print("PaddlePaddle result:")
for class_name, softmax_probability in result[0].items():
    print(f"{class_name}, {softmax_probability:.5f}")
plt.imshow(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB));

PaddlePaddle model on CPU: 0.0346 seconds per image, FPS: 28.91

PaddlePaddle result:
Labrador retriever, 0.58936
flat-coated retriever, 0.03327
curly-coated retriever, 0.03317

# Show inference speed on OpenVINO IR model
exec_net = ie.load_network(net, "CPU")

start = time.perf_counter()
input_image = process_image(pil_image)

for _ in range(num_images):
    ie_result = exec_net.infer(inputs={input_layer: input_image})[output_layer][0]
    result_index = np.argmax(ie_result)
    class_name = classifier.label_list[np.argmax(ie_result)]
    softmax_result = softmax(ie_result)
    top_indices = np.argsort(softmax_result)[-3:][::-1]
    top_softmax = softmax_result[top_indices]

end = time.perf_counter()
time_ir = end - start

print(
    f"IR model in Inference Engine (CPU): {time_ir/num_images:.4f} "
    f"seconds per image, FPS: {num_images/time_ir:.2f}"
)
print()
print("OpenVINO result:")
for index, softmax_probability in zip(top_indices, top_softmax):
    print(f"{classifier.label_list[index]}, {softmax_probability:.5f}")
plt.imshow(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB));

IR model in Inference Engine (CPU): 0.0028 seconds per image, FPS: 351.76

OpenVINO result:
Labrador retriever, 0.58936
flat-coated retriever, 0.03327
curly-coated retriever, 0.03317

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