From 6c02c8b7daf123f64b944ede407d0022e98d6e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Meinhardt <meinhardt.tim@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:55:26 +0200
Subject: Add argmax_param axis

---
 include/caffe/common_layers.hpp   |  2 ++
 src/caffe/layers/argmax_layer.cpp | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto       |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/caffe/common_layers.hpp b/include/caffe/common_layers.hpp
index 89bab8d6..491f9edb 100644
--- a/include/caffe/common_layers.hpp
+++ b/include/caffe/common_layers.hpp
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ class ArgMaxLayer : public Layer<Dtype> {
   }
   bool out_max_val_;
   size_t top_k_;
+  bool has_axis_;
+  int axis_;
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/caffe/layers/argmax_layer.cpp b/src/caffe/layers/argmax_layer.cpp
index c4040cdc..dad3d08b 100644
--- a/src/caffe/layers/argmax_layer.cpp
+++ b/src/caffe/layers/argmax_layer.cpp
@@ -11,11 +11,23 @@ namespace caffe {
 template <typename Dtype>
 void ArgMaxLayer<Dtype>::LayerSetUp(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
       const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
-  out_max_val_ = this->layer_param_.argmax_param().out_max_val();
-  top_k_ = this->layer_param_.argmax_param().top_k();
-  CHECK_GE(top_k_, 1) << " top k must not be less than 1.";
-  CHECK_LE(top_k_, bottom[0]->count() / bottom[0]->num())
-      << "top_k must be less than or equal to the number of classes.";
+  const ArgMaxParameter& argmax_param = this->layer_param_.argmax_param();
+  out_max_val_ = argmax_param.out_max_val();
+  top_k_ = argmax_param.top_k();
+  has_axis_ = argmax_param.has_axis();
+  CHECK_GE(top_k_, 1) << "top k must not be less than 1.";
+  if (has_axis_) {
+    axis_ = bottom[0]->CanonicalAxisIndex(argmax_param.axis());
+    CHECK_GE(axis_, 0) << "axis must not be less than 0.";
+    CHECK_LE(axis_, bottom[0]->num_axes()) <<
+      "axis must be less than or equal to the number of axis.";
+    CHECK_LE(top_k_, bottom[0]->shape(axis_))
+      << "top_k must be less than or equal to the dimension of the axis.";
+  } else {
+    CHECK_LE(top_k_, bottom[0]->count(1))
+      << "top_k must be less than or equal to"
+        " the dimension of the flattened bottom blob per instance.";
+  }
 }
 
 template <typename Dtype>
diff --git a/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto b/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto
index f52c941b..a8747c12 100644
--- a/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto
+++ b/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto
@@ -443,6 +443,11 @@ message ArgMaxParameter {
   // If true produce pairs (argmax, maxval)
   optional bool out_max_val = 1 [default = false];
   optional uint32 top_k = 2 [default = 1];
+  // The axis along which to maximise -- may be negative to index from the
+  // end (e.g., -1 for the last axis).
+  // By default ArgMaxLayer maximizes over the flattened trailing dimensions
+  // for each index of the first / num dimension.
+  optional int32 axis = 3;
 }
 
 message ConcatParameter {
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