Vectorize box encoding in FCOS

torchvision/models/detection/_utils.py

@@ -270,6 +270,40 @@ def encode_single(self, reference_boxes: Tensor, proposals: Tensor) -> Tensor:
 
         return targets
 
+    def encode_all(self, reference_boxes: Tensor, proposals: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        """
+        vectorized version of `encode_single`
+        Args:
+            reference_boxes (Tensor): reference boxes
+            proposals (Tensor): boxes to be encoded
+
+        Returns:
+            Tensor: the encoded relative box offsets that can be used to
+            decode the boxes.
+
+        """
+
+        # get the center of reference_boxes
+        reference_boxes_ctr_x = 0.5 * (reference_boxes[..., 0] + reference_boxes[..., 2])
+        reference_boxes_ctr_y = 0.5 * (reference_boxes[..., 1] + reference_boxes[..., 3])
+
+        # get box regression transformation deltas
+        target_l = reference_boxes_ctr_x - proposals[..., 0]
+        target_t = reference_boxes_ctr_y - proposals[..., 1]
+        target_r = proposals[..., 2] - reference_boxes_ctr_x
+        target_b = proposals[..., 3] - reference_boxes_ctr_y
+
+        targets = torch.stack((target_l, target_t, target_r, target_b), dim=-1)
+
+        if self.normalize_by_size:
+            reference_boxes_w = reference_boxes[..., 2] - reference_boxes[..., 0]
+            reference_boxes_h = reference_boxes[..., 3] - reference_boxes[..., 1]
+            reference_boxes_size = torch.stack(
+                (reference_boxes_w, reference_boxes_h, reference_boxes_w, reference_boxes_h), dim=-1
+            )
+            targets = targets / reference_boxes_size
+        return targets
+
     def decode_single(self, rel_codes: Tensor, boxes: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         """
         From a set of original boxes and encoded relative box offsets,

torchvision/models/detection/fcos.py

@@ -88,19 +88,20 @@ def compute_loss(
 
         pred_boxes = self.box_coder.decode_all(bbox_regression, anchors)
 
+        # List[Tensor] to Tensor conversion of  `all_gt_boxes_target` and `anchors`
+        all_gt_boxes_targets, anchors = torch.stack(all_gt_boxes_targets), torch.stack(anchors)
+
         # amp issue: pred_boxes need to convert float
         loss_bbox_reg = generalized_box_iou_loss(
             pred_boxes[foregroud_mask],
-            torch.stack(all_gt_boxes_targets)[foregroud_mask],
+            all_gt_boxes_targets[foregroud_mask],
             reduction="sum",
         )
 
         # ctrness loss
-        bbox_reg_targets = [
-            self.box_coder.encode_single(anchors_per_image, boxes_targets_per_image)
-            for anchors_per_image, boxes_targets_per_image in zip(anchors, all_gt_boxes_targets)
-        ]
-        bbox_reg_targets = torch.stack(bbox_reg_targets, dim=0)
+
+        bbox_reg_targets = self.box_coder.encode_all(anchors, all_gt_boxes_targets)
+
         if len(bbox_reg_targets) == 0:
             gt_ctrness_targets = bbox_reg_targets.new_zeros(bbox_reg_targets.size()[:-1])
         else: