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[Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Extraction](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org)
Created by Yangqing Jia, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley.
Maintained by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC).
## Introduction
Caffe aims to provide computer vision scientists with a **clean, modifiable
implementation** of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms. Network structure
is easily specified in separate config files, with no mess of hard-coded
parameters in the code. Python and Matlab wrappers are provided.
At the same time, Caffe fits industry needs, with blazing fast C++/Cuda code for
GPU computation. Caffe is currently the fastest GPU CNN implementation publicly
available, and is able to process more than **20 million images per day** on a
single Tesla K20 machine \*.
Caffe also provides **seamless switching between CPU and GPU**, which allows one
to train models with fast GPUs and then deploy them on non-GPU clusters with one
line of code: `Caffe::set_mode(Caffe::CPU)`.
Even in CPU mode, computing predictions on an image takes only 20 ms when images
are processed in batch mode.
* [Installation instructions](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/installation.html)
* [Caffe presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lzyXMRQFlOYE2Jy0lCNaqltpcCIKuRzKJxQ7vCuPRc8/edit?usp=sharing) at the Berkeley Vision Group meeting
\* When measured with the [SuperVision](http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/supervision.pdf) model that won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2012.
## License
Caffe is BSD 2-Clause licensed (refer to the
[LICENSE](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/license.html) for details).
The pretrained models published by the BVLC, such as the
[Caffe reference ImageNet model](https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3jups0gr7uj0dv/caffe_reference_imagenet_model)
are licensed for academic research / non-commercial use only. However, Caffe is
a full toolkit for model training, so start brewing your own Caffe model today!
## Citing Caffe
Please kindly cite Caffe in your publications if it helps your research:
@misc{Jia13caffe,
Author = {Yangqing Jia},
Title = { {Caffe}: An Open Source Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding},
Year = {2013},
Howpublished = {\url{http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/}
}
## Contributing
Caffe is developed with the community by the [Berkeley Vision and Learning
Center](http://bvlc.eecs.berkeley.edu/). We welcome contributions!
To join in, please note this policy:
- Do your work in [feature
branches](https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows#!workflow-feature-branch).
- Bring your work up-to-date by
[rebasing](http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing) onto the latest
`dev`. Polish your changes by [interactive
rebase](https://help.github.com/articles/interactive-rebase) if you like too.
- [Pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests) your
contribution to BVLC/caffe's `dev` branch for discussion and review.
- `dev` is for new development, community contributions, and testing.
- `master` is handled by BVLC, which will integrate changes from `dev`.
Expect a more detailed contributing guide soon. Thank you.
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