SimpleDet Docs

Roadmap and changelog

The repository does not yet maintain a formal changelog file, so this page records the current direction instead of pretending the process is more mature than it is.

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Use this page for project direction and known gaps, not as a historical release ledger.

Current state

  • Static HTML docs replaced the transient Markdown docs tree.
  • simpledet.suite is the canonical model-authoring layer.
  • run_training(...), run_inference(...), and run_evaluation(...) are the canonical runtime path.
  • Lightweight dense heads now include native YOLOX, RTMDet, SSD, and EfficientDet construction, target assignment, and decode smoke coverage.
  • Keypoint and query heads now include native CenterNet, CornerNet, DETR, Conditional DETR, DAB-DETR, Deformable DETR, and DINO construction plus CPU forward smoke coverage.
  • US-020 promotes Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Grid R-CNN, and Cascade R-CNN to native two-stage composition: RPN and ROI heads are built through registries, build_detector(name="faster_rcnn", num_classes=3) returns a native TwoStageDetector, and mask_rcnn build plans fail validation when the selected ROI head is not mask-enabled.
  • US-021 promotes DETR, Conditional DETR, DAB-DETR, Deformable DETR, and DINO to native QueryDetector composition with registered query heads, positional encoding validation, query logits, normalized boxes, and CPU tensor smoke tests.
  • US-022 registers the first ten foundational detector families with native aliases and defaults: Faster R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, RPN, Mask R-CNN, Cascade R-CNN, Cascade Mask R-CNN, Grid R-CNN, Libra R-CNN, Double-Head R-CNN, and Dynamic R-CNN. Discovery output now includes native validation status.
  • US-025 promotes CornerNet and Sparse R-CNN to detector-level native support: CornerNet uses paired corner heatmap loss/decode, Sparse R-CNN uses learned proposal boxes/features without an RPN fallback, and unsupported transformer variants now fail with planned-but-unsupported guidance.

Near-term gaps

  • Formal changelog discipline is still missing.
  • Notebook execution is not yet covered end-to-end in CI.
  • The config layout between MyConfigs/ and packaged templates can still be simplified.