Caffe2 support (running on cross platform such as iOS)

[cmu-perceptual-computing-lab]

Caffe2 support (running on cross platform such as iOS)

[gineshidalgo99]

CUDA is a requirement, it was really slow on CPU so we ended up not finishing the CPU code so far. What do you mean by dependencies on multiple caffe models?

[KleinYuan]

@gineshidalgo99 ahhh I see that now.
dependencies on multiple caffe models means that it seems both COCO model and MPI model are required to compile it, like this downloaded models

in the code:
Here and Here

[gineshidalgo99]

OK sorry, I got confused when you said multiple because right now only 2 are available (COCO/MPI). Forget hands and face so far, they are not available yet (we are working on them).

We are interested in supporting also Caffe2, but I am not familiar with it yet. But I thought it would have by default some kind of tool to convert models from Caffe, is there any? If so, then it should be easy to convert the COCO-MPI models and relatively easy to create a basic wrapper for Caffe2 and run OpenPose on top of it as we are doing with Caffe.

[KleinYuan]

@gineshidalgo99 Thanks for the clarification and that's quite helpful since I didn't dig too deep into the src code.

Yeah, Caffe2 offers a translator to automate translating Caffe model to Caffe2 pb files. I did a bunch of tests and it works pretty good. I would like to give it a try to see whether it works with Caffe2.

Alright. Good chat. I think we can close this issue and looking forwards to you guys coming work. Good job!

[gineshidalgo99]

Please @KleinYuan, let us know if you are able to compile it with Caffe2, or make a pull request as a new branch, so we can add it! Best