1 [Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Extraction](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org)
3 Created by Yangqing Jia, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley.
4 Maintained by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC).
6 ## Introduction
8 Caffe aims to provide computer vision scientists with a **clean, modifiable
9 implementation** of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms. Network structure
10 is easily specified in separate config files, with no mess of hard-coded
11 parameters in the code. Python and Matlab wrappers are provided.
13 At the same time, Caffe fits industry needs, with blazing fast C++/Cuda code for
14 GPU computation. Caffe is currently the fastest GPU CNN implementation publicly
15 available, and is able to process more than **20 million images per day** on a
16 single Tesla K20 machine \*.
18 Caffe also provides **seamless switching between CPU and GPU**, which allows one
19 to train models with fast GPUs and then deploy them on non-GPU clusters with one
20 line of code: `Caffe::set_mode(Caffe::CPU)`.
22 Even in CPU mode, computing predictions on an image takes only 20 ms when images
23 are processed in batch mode.
25 * [Installation instructions](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/installation.html)
26 * [Caffe presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lzyXMRQFlOYE2Jy0lCNaqltpcCIKuRzKJxQ7vCuPRc8/edit?usp=sharing) at the Berkeley Vision Group meeting
28 \* 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.
30 ## License
32 Caffe is BSD 2-Clause licensed (refer to
33 [LICENSE](http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/license.html) for details).
35 ## Citing Caffe
37 Please kindly cite Caffe in your publications if it helps your research:
39 @misc{Jia13caffe,
40 Author = {Yangqing Jia},
41 Title = { {Caffe}: An Open Source Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding},
42 Year = {2013},
43 Howpublished = {\url{http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/}
44 }