Add ability to import Caffe networks

[alejandro-isaza]

I don't think we should add all of Protobuf but maybe have a script that converts a caffe prototxt into simpler format. Then have that simpler format be the standard BrainCore network definition format.

[aidangomez]

@Aleph7 Are you thinking JSON? Or something even lighter? Take a look at msgpack.org

[alejandro-isaza]

I was thinking YAML

-
    name: ip1
    type: Inner Product
-
    name: relu1
    type: ReLU
    sources: [ip1]

[aidangomez]

Ooo very nice.

[hartator]

Any news on that? Will love to use Caffe models with BrainCore. 👍

[alejandro-isaza]

@hartator this is not a priority for us right now, hence the 'help wanted' tag.

[johndpope]

you maybe able to cherry pick from this code
https://github.com/naru-hiyoko/simple-cnn-swift

https://github.com/noradaiko/caffe-ios-sample

[jrimestad]

https://github.com/DeepLearningKit/caffemodel2json could maybe help

[skeeet]

@Aleph7 since BrainCore primary target is mobile, wouldn't it be more reasonable to drop json/yaml and go with binary protobuf, to avoid processing overhead?

[alejandro-isaza]

@skeeet yes, that would be good but I don't want to force people to get all the protobuf dependencies just to use BrainCore. Maybe that can be a separate project.

[alejandro-isaza]

Maybe we should just read protobuf now that https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf-plugin is out!

[thomashocking]

Hi, I'm wondering if this is still an ongoing update to BrainCore still? I'm interested in possibly helping to contribute but I'm not sure where to get started.

Thanks!

[ghost]

If you want to contribute reading protobuf models I would suggest starting with caffe's protobuf definition. Try to to generate the Swift code for that with with swift-protobuf on a project by itself. Then try generating BrainCore layers from that. If you get that working on a separate repo I'd be happy to integrate it to BrainCore.

[thomashocking]

Great thanks, I'll take a look at it.