support more flexible setting of conv head; slice inputs when batch s…

…ize is too large in PFNLayer to avoid bugs (open-mmlab#124)

* support more flexible setting

* slice inputs of nn.Linear when batch size is too large

pcdet/models/backbones_2d/base_bev_backbone.py

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ def __init__(self, model_cfg, input_channels):
         super().__init__()
         self.model_cfg = model_cfg
 
-        assert len(self.model_cfg.LAYER_NUMS) == len(self.model_cfg.LAYER_STRIDES) == \
-               len(self.model_cfg.NUM_FILTERS) == len(self.model_cfg.NUM_UPSAMPLE_FILTERS)
+        assert len(self.model_cfg.LAYER_NUMS) == len(self.model_cfg.LAYER_STRIDES) == len(self.model_cfg.NUM_FILTERS)
+        assert len(self.model_cfg.UPSAMPLE_STRIDES) == len(self.model_cfg.NUM_UPSAMPLE_FILTERS)
         layer_nums = self.model_cfg.LAYER_NUMS
         layer_strides = self.model_cfg.LAYER_STRIDES
         num_filters = self.model_cfg.NUM_FILTERS
@@ -36,16 +36,16 @@ def __init__(self, model_cfg, input_channels):
                     nn.ReLU()
                 ])
             self.blocks.append(nn.Sequential(*cur_layers))
-
-            self.deblocks.append(nn.Sequential(
-                nn.ConvTranspose2d(
-                    num_filters[idx], num_upsample_filters[idx],
-                    upsample_strides[idx],
-                    stride=upsample_strides[idx], bias=False
-                ),
-                nn.BatchNorm2d(num_upsample_filters[idx], eps=1e-3, momentum=0.01),
-                nn.ReLU()
-            ))
+            if len(upsample_strides) > 0:
+                self.deblocks.append(nn.Sequential(
+                    nn.ConvTranspose2d(
+                        num_filters[idx], num_upsample_filters[idx],
+                        upsample_strides[idx],
+                        stride=upsample_strides[idx], bias=False
+                    ),
+                    nn.BatchNorm2d(num_upsample_filters[idx], eps=1e-3, momentum=0.01),
+                    nn.ReLU()
+                ))
 
         c_in = sum(num_upsample_filters)
         if len(upsample_strides) > num_levels:
@@ -73,12 +73,16 @@ def forward(self, data_dict):
 
             stride = int(spatial_features.shape[2] / x.shape[2])
             ret_dict['spatial_features_%dx' % stride] = x
-            ups.append(self.deblocks[i](x))
+            if len(self.deblocks) > 0:
+                ups.append(self.deblocks[i](x))
+            else:
+                ups.append(x)
 
         if len(ups) > 1:
             x = torch.cat(ups, dim=1)
-        else:
+        elif len(ups) == 1:
             x = ups[0]
+
         if len(self.deblocks) > len(self.blocks):
             x = self.deblocks[-1](x)
 

pcdet/models/backbones_3d/vfe/pillar_vfe.py

@@ -22,8 +22,16 @@ def __init__(self,
         else:
             self.linear = nn.Linear(in_channels, out_channels, bias=True)
 
+        self.part = 50000
+
     def forward(self, inputs):
-        x = self.linear(inputs)
+        if inputs.shape[0] > self.part:
+            # nn.Linear performs randomly when batch size is too large
+            num_parts = inputs.shape[0] // self.part
+            part_linear_out = [self.linear(inputs[num_part*self.part:(num_part+1)*self.part]) for num_part in range(num_parts+1)]
+            x = torch.cat(part_linear_out, dim=0)
+        else:
+            x = self.linear(inputs)            
         total_points, voxel_points, channels = x.shape
         x = self.norm(x.view(-1, channels)).view(total_points, voxel_points, channels) if self.use_norm else x
         x = F.relu(x)