Functional MRI for Neural Networks

An attempt to create real-time in depth visualisation for neural networks.

Requirements

The following programs/libraries need to be installed on your system:

• CMake (at least 3.8)
• Caffe
• Google log (glog)
• OpenCV (at least 2.6, 3.x works fine.)
• Boost System
• PNG++

Note that most of these are dependencies of Caffe, and thus will probably already be on your system. For OS-specific instructions, see below.

Arch Linux

1. Install either caffe or caffe-cpu from the AUR.
2. Install other dependencies:
   • png++
   • cmake
   • freeglut
3. Do the build as normal

Ubuntu

Caffe is available from the Ubuntu repositories from version 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) onwards, and can be used to simplify the installation process. The commands required are as follows:

# Install dependencies
sudo apt install caffe-cpu-dev freeglut3-dev libpng++-dev build-essential cmake

# Do the build normally

Older versions of Ubuntu need some help, as the caffe package does not exist, and the supplied cmake version is too old.

1. First, install a recent version of cmake. Any version from 3.8 onwards will do.
2. Then, install caffe from source. Installation instructions can be found on the Caffe website. Be sure to also install the development headers.
3. Run the build as normal.

Building

The build process is based on CMake. This means you can easily create a build as follows. Starting from the project root:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Compilation is a little slow due to the inclusion of Boost.