Highlights

• Support CondInst
• Add projects/ folder, which will be a place for some experimental models/features.
• Support SparseInst in projects

New Features

• Support CondInst (#9223)
• Add projects/ folder, which will be a place for some experimental models/features (#9341)
• Support SparseInst in projects (#9377)

Bug Fixes

• Fix pixel_decoder_type discrimination in MaskFormer Head. (#9176)
• Fix wrong padding value in cached MixUp (#9259)
• Rename utils/typing.py to utils/typing_utils.py to fix collect_env error (#9265)
• Fix resume arg conflict (#9287)
• Fix the configs of Faster R-CNN with caffe backbone (#9319)
• Fix torchserve and update related documentation (#9343)
• Fix bbox refine bug with sigmooid activation (#9538)

Improvements

• Update the docs of GIoU Loss in README (#8810)
• Handle dataset wrapper in inference_detector (#9144)
• Update the type of counts in COCO’s compressed RLE (#9274)
• Support saving config file in print_config (#9276)
• Update docs about video inference (#9305)
• Update guide about model deployment (#9344)
• Fix doc typos of useful tools (#9177)
• Allow to resume from specific checkpoint in CLI (#9284)
• Update FAQ about windows installation issues of pycocotools (#9292)

Contributors

A total of 13 developers contributed to this release.

Thanks @JunyaoHu, @sanbuphy, @Czm369, @Daa98, @jbwang1997, @BIGWangYuDong, @JosonChan1998, @lvhan028, @RunningLeon, @RangiLyu, @Daa98, @ZwwWayne, @hhaAndroid

New Contributors

• @Daa98 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9274
• @lvhan028 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9344
• @JunyaoHu made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9383

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/compare/v3.0.0rc3...v3.0.0rc4