To use the WIDER Face dataset you need to download it
and extract to the data/WIDERFace folder. Annotation in the VOC format
can be found in this repo.
You should move the annotation files from WIDER_train_annotations and WIDER_val_annotations folders
to the Annotation folders inside the corresponding directories WIDER_train and WIDER_val.
Also annotation lists val.txt and train.txt should be copied to data/WIDERFace from WIDER_train_annotations and WIDER_val_annotations.
The directory should be like this:
mmdetection
├── mmdet
├── tools
├── configs
├── data
│ ├── WIDERFace
│ │ ├── WIDER_train
│ | │ ├──0--Parade
│ | │ ├── ...
│ | │ ├── Annotations
│ │ ├── WIDER_val
│ | │ ├──0--Parade
│ | │ ├── ...
│ | │ ├── Annotations
│ │ ├── val.txt
│ │ ├── train.txt
After that you can train the SSD300 on WIDER by launching training with the ssd300_wider_face.py config or
create your own config based on the presented one.