Remote Client

The remote client allows someone to create model experiments using the command line instead of relying on API calls.

Installation

pip3 install -y nvidia-tao-client

Current Limitations

The remote client does not currently support the following features:

• User authentication

• Protect stored experiments among users

Storage Topology

Below is a detectnet_v2 example of shared storage content.

shared
└── users
    ├── 1a40ddb6-d389-4c39-9b40-eaa948ee508d
    │   ├── metadata.json
    │   ├── datasets
    │   │   ├── 78cff931-e867-4e9c-b8a7-30fa243e433c
    │   │   │   ├── metadata.json
    │   │   │   ├── specs
    │   │   │   │   └── convert.json
    │   │   │   ├── images
    │   │   │   │   ├── 000000.jpg
    │   │   │   │   └── …
    │   │   │   ├── labels
    │   │   │   │   ├── 000000.txt
    │   │   │   │   └── …
    │   │   │   ├── 444fed7a-ac3f-4499-8a57-0234a43c752d
    │   │   │   │   ├── status.json
    │   │   │   │   └── …
    │   │   │   └── tfrecords
    │   │   │       └── …
    │   │   └── …
    │   └── models
    │       ├── cdf387d2-067e-4935-be9d-7facbc851f60
    │       │   ├── metadata.json
    │       │   ├── specs
    │       │   │   ├── train.json
    │       │   │   └── …
    │       │   ├── 444fed7a-ac3f-4499-8a57-0234a43c754e
    │       │   │   ├── status.json
    │       │   │   └── …
    │       │   └── experiment_dir_unpruned
    │       │       └── …
    │       └── …
    └── …

CLI Specs

The command line is composed of:

$ tao-client <network> <action> <args>

For example:

$ tao-client detectnet-v2 dataset-convert --id 042559ec-ab3e-438d-9c94-2cab38f76efc

Note

You can always use –help argument to retrieve the command usage information.

To list supported networks:

$ tao-client –help

To list supported detectnet-v2 actions:

$ tao-client detectnet-v2 –help

To list detectnet-v2 dataset-convert arguments:

$ tao-client detectnet-v2 dataset-convert --help

Example Object Detection

For an example that demonstrates the Object Detection workflow, please find tutorial notebook api_tutorials/client/detectnet_v2.ipynb from resource archive: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/tao/resources/cv_samples

Example TTS Finetune

For an example that demonstrates the TTS finetuning workkflow, please find tutorial notebook api_tutorials/client/tts.ipynb from resource archive: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/teams/tao/resources/texttospeech_notebook