SiamMask PRO

... I used to check a lot of GitHub repos, they were very vague and required for me to be competent in software development/programming and understand all of the jargon –

Now even though I have a masters degree in electronic engineering. It was still challenging for me to figure out. I had a lot of questions like...

• ...What to do to get my code working?
• Do I have the right hardware
• Windows or Linux – If linux, do I use Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, ROS
• If Ubuntu, what version 16.04, 18.04, What kernel do I need?
• If I am training, what format does my dataset need to be in?
• Do I use Python or C++
• If python What dependencies do I need?
• Which frameworks do I use? PyTorch, Tensorflow 1.0 or 2.0
• What commands do I type to infer or train a convolutional neural network
• How big my dataset needs to be?
• How do I run on GPU, and does my GPU support the framework?

I was unsure of what to do. Sometimes I would look at the instructions and because the instructions were so vague, I would skip to the next repo and the next, until I found one that resonates with me or one that had a clear set of instructions that I could understand and follow, or had a video tutorial on it. And video tutorials on this particular topic are very scarce.

The other problem was, I would follow the instructions, but I would run in trivial issues, like not having the correct dependencies or I did not have the correct hardware or OS etc. When things don’t work. This would beat me down and make me loose confidence of whether or not this repository would work. Now I had 2 options, I could either spend tons of hours searching the web to debug the issue or move on to the next repo which also may or may not work.

The other problem was, I would follow the instructions, but I would run in trivial issues, like not having the correct dependencies or I did not have the correct hardware or OS etc. When things don’t work. This would beat me down and make me loose confidence of whether or not this repository would work. Now I had 2 options, I could either spend tons of hours searching the web to debug the issue or move on to the next repo which also may or may not work.

Then, I thought, if me with a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering had all these issues with getting started in AI, surely other people would be having this same issue as me. People such as:

• non-programmers/non computer science ,
• Hobbyists, Students, researcher, employees.
• People starting out in AI....