Image Classification in Raspberry Pi

Building TensorFlow Lite

Cross Compile

We recommend cross-compiling the TensorFlow Raspbian package. Cross-compilation is using a different platform to build the package than deploy to. Instead of using the Raspberry Pi's limited RAM and comparatively slow processor, it's easier to build TensorFlow on a more powerful host machine running Linux, macOS, or Windows. You can see detailed instructions here.

Install just the TensorFlow Lite interpreter

To quickly start executing TensorFlow Lite models with Python, you can install just the TensorFlow Lite interpreter, instead of all TensorFlow packages.

This interpreter-only package is a fraction the size of the full TensorFlow package and includes the bare minimum code required to run inferences with TensorFlow Lite—it includes only the tf.lite.Interpreter Python class. This small package is ideal when all you want to do is execute .tflite models and avoid wasting disk space with the large TensorFlow library.

Install from pip

To install just the interpreter, download the appropriate Python wheel for your system from the following link, and then install it with the pip install command.

For example, if you're setting up a Raspberry Pi Model B (using Raspbian Stretch, which has Python 3.5), install the Python wheel as follows (after you click to download the .whl file in the provided link):

1	pip install tflite_runtime-1.14.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_armv7l.whl

Running inference

So instead of importing Interpreter from the tensorflow module, you need to import it from tflite_runtime.

1	from tflite_runtime.interpreter import Interpreter

Additional notes

In case you have built TensorFlow from source, you need to import the Interpreter as follows:

1	from tensorflow.lite.python.interpreter import Interpreter

Inference on Pi

To get started, download the pretrained model along with its label file.

1 2	wget https://storage.googleapis.com/download.tensorflow.org/models/tflite/mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant_and_labels.zip unzip mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant_and_labels

Prerequisites

To install the Python dependencies, run:

1 2	pip install numpy pip install Pillow

Next, to run the code on Raspberry Pi, use classify.py as follows:

1	python3 classify.py --filename dog.jpg --model_path mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant.tflite --label_path labels_mobilenet_quant_v1_224.txt

classify.py



from tflite_runtime.interpreter import Interpreter
import numpy as np
import argparse
from PIL import Image

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Image Classification')
parser.add_argument('--filename', type=str, help='Specify the filename', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--model_path', type=str, help='Specify the model path', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--label_path', type=str, help='Specify the label map', required=True)
parser.add_argument('--top_k', type=int, help='How many top results', default=3)

args = parser.parse_args()

filename = args.filename
model_path = args.model_path 
label_path = args.label_path 
top_k_results = args.top_k

with open(label_path, 'r') as f:
    labels = list(map(str.strip, f.readlines()))

# Load TFLite model and allocate tensors
interpreter = Interpreter(model_path=model_path)
interpreter.allocate_tensors()

# Get input and output tensors.
input_details = interpreter.get_input_details()
output_details = interpreter.get_output_details()

# Read image
img = Image.open(filename).convert('RGB')

# Get input size
input_shape = input_details[0]['shape']
size = input_shape[:2] if len(input_shape) == 3 else input_shape[1:3]

# Preprocess image
img = img.resize(size)
img = np.array(img)

# Add a batch dimension
input_data = np.expand_dims(img, axis=0)

# Point the data to be used for testing and run the interpreter
interpreter.set_tensor(input_details[0]['index'], input_data)
interpreter.invoke()

# Obtain results and map them to the classes
predictions = interpreter.get_tensor(output_details[0]['index'])[0]

# Get indices of the top k results
top_k_indices = np.argsort(predictions)[::-1][:top_k_results]

for i in range(top_k_results):
    print(labels[top_k_indices[i]], predictions[top_k_indices[i]] / 255.0)

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Use Tensorflow Lite to do Inference on Raspberry Pi