How to train?

[ldenoue]

Could you point us to how to train on our own images? The article and readme files only seem to talk about inference, but no training: how can we perform the transfer learning and retrain with our own images like you did?
Thanks!

[victordibia]

Hi @ldenoue ,

There were a few article that already did an excellent job of demonstrating the training process. I actually followed them in training the hand model.

Training on your own images: Please use the guide provided by Harrison from pythonprogramming on how to generate tfrecords given your label csv files and your images. The guide also covers how to start the training process if training locally. [see [here] (https://pythonprogramming.net/training-custom-objects-tensorflow-object-detection-api-tutorial/)]. If training in the cloud using a service like GCP, see the guide here.

Also see this excellent article from Dat Tran - https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-train-your-own-object-detector-with-tensorflows-object-detector-api-bec72ecfe1d9 .

-V

[ldenoue]

Much appreciated, thanks. If I manage to train something I’ll post a google colab notebook (did you know they give free GPU?)