Intro - TensorFlow Object Detection API Tutorial p.1

Hello and welcome to a miniseries and introduction to the TensorFlow Object Detection API. This API can be used to detect, with bounding boxes, objects in images and/or video using either some of the pre-trained models made available or through models you can train on your own (which the API also makes easier).

[Skaxarrat]

Finally I make it work! I've found the problem with protoc. Just don't do whatever is said in the video (unless is currently working, lol) and download protoc 3.4 version. Enter intro the zip, go to /bin and copy the 'protoc.exe' file into models-master/research. Once it is there, type the protoc commando show on video. If you don't get any feedback, it's a good new. Then proceed opening the file with jupyter notebook as show on video.

Mind that it will take a while while downloading all the dependencies and files, unpacking them and so on. The icon on jupyter will turn into a orange hourglass while doing all the process and once it turns back to an orange book, you're done! Go to the bottom of the jupyter file and you'll get both of the images.

Enjoy :)

[hanSolowQ]

Please don't waste time trying to install TF with python3.7

[LazyTech]

If you're having trouble getting this to work in 2020 I just uploaded a video showing the process of getting this to work!

[siddhantsangal]

minor changes for windows -
1)the object_detection folder is now moved to the research folder
2) this tutorial works for protobuf 3.4.0 -
3) while running the cmd prompt, make sure you use the models/research folder which is as mentioned in the first step.
4) this works perfectly for the CPU only version(using a surface pro 6)

[tomjames]

Are you able to replicate this tutorial for TensorFlow 2.0 (and above)? There are many breaking changes between 1.X and 2.X.

[sourish]

if you are getting No such file or directory" just download protoc 3.4.0

[PASTRAMIKick]

For the people having trouble with the output images, this worked for me:
in just comment out the lines
import matplotlib; matplotlib.use('Agg') # pylint: disable=multiple-statements
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # pylint: disable=g-import-not-at-top
for me they were in line 29 and 30.

[PieCheeseGuyGamingChannel]

Hey when I get to the Protoc step I get a error that says, "'C:/Users/NAME' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

How do I fix this?

[nas]

HELP PLEASE:
warning: Import but not used.

[ss_magician]

Could someone help me with the following
notebook
'jupyter' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[aurous]

to overcome the changes made in repo, and if you're getting the "No such file or directory " error for protoc, open powershell and do

cd <path_to_models>/research
$path = ./object_detection/protos/
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Filter "*.proto" | Resolve-path -Relative
$items | ForEach-Object {protoc $_ --python_out=.}

hope this helps anyone else stuck on this step. If you have any better method, let me know!

[samuelseidl]

was anyone else having trouble getting protoc to work?

[michaelroditis]

HELP!!
When I press run all it seems as though nothing is happening. Does anybody know why or how to fix?

[awdhootkanawade]

Am struggling to just get this work from last 4 days and no success so far every time a new error

Please can someone assist me ..

[non-mais-vraiment]

I got this work with these extra steps for windows 10, python 3.7:
- Add protoc/bin in the PATH environment variable
- Run everything in cmd in admin mode
- run cell and below after the pip install in jupyter

[lucassilvapascoal]

Can you upload your brain for me to update mine? haha
Well, this is basically what you are doing on your channel, so, thank you!

[rize]

I am getting an 'Invalid file name pattern or missing input file message in the command prompt

[khurramshafiq]

module 'tensorflow.compat' has no attribute 'v1', can anyone help plz?

[masab]

I ran 'jupyter notebook' command on cmd everything works just fine and also cmd displays "Saving files at but the two images are not shown. Can anyone tell me how to solve this?

[johnbelvin]

Great set of tutorials and am in dire need of getting this work, but how do I get hold of this older version of TF Object Detection API ??