yours-schnee / retinavision

An artificial software retina for deep learning purposes, developed by the CVAS team at the University of Glasgow.

RetinaVision

A Python implementation of the software retina being developed by the CVAS team at the University of Glasgow.

Link to lastest paper

Requirements

Pip
Numpy
Scipy
Python 3.6 (2.7 no longer supported)
cPickle
opencv (for running examples only, might be replaced by imageio soon)
CUDA

Download

Depending on how you download the package, the line endings of .pkl files can be changed causing the following error when running the demo:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy.core.multiarray\r'

On Windows you have to download the package as a .zip and unpack it to prevent this issue. Using git clone might be safe on Ubuntu, but hasn't been tested.

Installation

After installing all of the requirements, navigate to the RetinaVision directory and run:

pip install -e .

If using Anaconda make sure to be inside the correct environment when installing. For your convenience, here are the instructions on how to install CUDA.

Windows might block the RetinaCUDA.dll (unindentified developer). If this happens, try enabling the dll in it's properties. If the dll still cannot be loaded, run the scripts in a terminal with administrator privileges.