Highlights

• Support imagenet pre-training for RTMDet's backbone

New Features

• Support imagenet pre-training for RTMDet's backbone (#8887)
• Add CrowdHumanDataset and Metric (#8430)
• Add FixShapeResize to support resize of fixed shape (#8665)

Bug Fixes

• Fix ConcatDataset Import Error (#8909)
• Fix CircleCI and readthedoc build failed (#8980, #8963)
• Fix bitmap mask translate when out_shape is different (#8993)
• Fix inconsistency in Conv2d weight channels (#8948)
• Fix bugs when plotting loss curve by analyze_logs.py (#8944)
• Fix type change of labels in albumentations (#9074)
• Fix some docs and types error (#8818)
• Update memory occupation of RTMDet in metafile (#9098)
• Fix wrong arguments of OpenImageMetrics in the config (#9061)

Improvements

• Refactor standard roi head with box type (#8658)
• Support mask concatenation in BitmapMasks and PolygonMasks (#9006)
• Update PyTorch and dependencies' version in dockerfile (#8845)
• Update robustness_eval.py and print_config (#8452)
• Make compatible with ConfigDict and dict in dense_heads (#8942)
• Support logging coco metric copypaste (#9012)
• Remove Normalize transform (#8913)
• Support jittering the color of different instances of the same class (#8988)
• Add assertion for missing key in PackDetInputs (#8982)

Contributors

A total of 13 developers contributed to this release.

Thanks @RangiLyu, @jbwang1997, @wanghonglie, @Chan-Sun, @RangeKing, @chhluo, @MambaWong, @yuyoujiang, @hhaAndroid, @sltlls, @Nioolek, @ZwwWayne, @wufan-tb

New Contributors

• @Chan-Sun made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8909
• @MambaWong made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8913
• @yuyoujiang made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8437
• @sltlls made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8944
• @Nioolek made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8845
• @wufan-tb made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9061

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/compare/v3.0.0rc1...v3.0.0rc2