Hi,

I found out about Caffe-future from the paper Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (found the link from model-zoo). I am trying to work on a regression problem where the input to the CNN is an 256 X 256 image and the output that the CNN is supposed to produce is also an 256 X 256 image. So a version of caffe that supports Fully convolutional neural netwroks would be extremely useful for me. In the original version of caffe I was getting an error when I tried setting the stride of the convolutional layer to a float value (for upsampling). I believe the caffe-future version supports float value for stride.

However, while trying to install caffe-future I am facing some issues. I am not sure if I am missing anything. Following is what I tried for installation:

First I cloned the git repository. After that I followed the instructions mentioned in future.sh
Mentioned below are the commands I wrote and the outputs I got. The main issue I faced was in the command : hub merge BVLC#1977 which gave the error : fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/accum-grad

>>> git clone https://github.com/longjon/caffe.git
>>> cd caffe

>>> git checkout master

Already on 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

>>> git branch -D future

error: branch 'future' not found.

>>> git checkout -b future

Switched to a new branch 'future'

>>> hub merge https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/1976

include/caffe/util/benchmark.hpp | 27 +-
include/caffe/util/coords.hpp | 61 +
include/caffe/util/cudnn.hpp | 128 +
include/caffe/util/db.hpp | 190 ++
include/caffe/util/device_alternate.hpp | 102 +
include/caffe/util/im2col.hpp | 22 +-
...
...
...
matlab/caffe/matcaffe_init.m | 11 +-
.../bvlc_alexnet/deploy.prototxt | 248 +-
models/bvlc_alexnet/readme.md | 25 +
.../bvlc_alexnet/solver.prototxt | 6 +-
.../bvlc_alexnet/train_val.prototxt | 296 ++-
models/bvlc_googlenet/deploy.prototxt | 2156 +++++++++++++++++
...
...
...
tools/test_net.cpp | 54 +-
tools/train_net.cpp | 34 +-
tools/upgrade_net_proto_binary.cpp | 17 +-
tools/upgrade_net_proto_text.cpp | 29 +-
430 files changed, 46179 insertions(+), 11932 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 .Doxyfile
create mode 100644 .travis.yml
create mode 100644 CMakeLists.txt
create mode 100644 cmake/ConfigGen.cmake
create mode 100644 cmake/Cuda.cmake
create mode 100644 cmake/Dependencies.cmake
...
...
...
create mode 100644 src/caffe/util/db.cpp
create mode 100644 src/gtest/CMakeLists.txt
create mode 100644 tools/CMakeLists.txt
create mode 100644 tools/caffe.cpp
delete mode 100644 tools/dump_network.cpp
create mode 100755 tools/extra/parse_log.py

>>> hub merge https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/1977

fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/accum-grad

>>> hub merge https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/2086

From git://github.com/longjon/caffe
[new branch] python-net-spec -> longjon/python-net-spec
Auto-merging src/caffe/net.cpp
Removing src/caffe/layers/flatten_layer.cu
Auto-merging matlab/hdf5creation/demo.m
Removing matlab/caffe/read_cell.m
Removing matlab/caffe/print_cell.m
Removing matlab/caffe/prepare_batch.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe_init.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe_demo_vgg_mean_pix.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe_demo_vgg.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe_demo.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe_batch.m
Removing matlab/caffe/matcaffe.cpp
Removing matlab/caffe/ilsvrc_2012_mean.mat
Auto-merging include/caffe/vision_layers.hpp
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in include/caffe/vision_layers.hpp
Auto-merging include/caffe/neuron_layers.hpp
Auto-merging include/caffe/layer.hpp
Auto-merging include/caffe/common_layers.hpp
Auto-merging examples/net_surgery/bvlc_caffenet_full_conv.prototxt
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

I am unable to compile caffe. Can someone please help me with this issue ?